Casebooks

RN Goody Cowly of our towne same tyme.

Goody Cowly a deadly payne in the hynder te of her head y^t shee cānot rest for it rūneth into her backe. & chill & cold. chest hard gyrded. Apr 2|3|0 y {sic} {illeg} Apr. ♂ h. 7. ant m 1605.

RN Scāler to put a way the Cold frō his harte. feb. 1|2| 21. die ♃ h. 5. 16. p m. 1600 /the cancers did eate out his throate all blacke.\

RN soror mea Maria Sandye Londinensis petit morbi causa  catarrhe et capite frigido et iuncturis Maij 18 ☾ hor 9. 45 ant m 1600|i|. 160i {sic}

RN M^r Catesbes for all his oldest sonne & ar{illeg} his sonne |A very tale  gentlemā| 18 y Iune 24. ♀. h. 9. 30 ant m 1631 |feet cold face & nose a malig feaver|

RN M^res Askue of midle Claydon. 40 y. maij 8 die ♀ hor. 12. ant m. 160i

 capitis dolore  3^es annos

Itm’  puella Iane Askue of Middle Claydon 16 y.  greene sicknes.

Itm’ Rich Askue. of midle Claydon. 40 y. hor 12. die ♀.

 lateris dextri dolore et algore et pulsu cedente vti arbitrat^r ex obstructione hepatis.

TG Mary Clark of this towne 18 ye: Complaineth of her head nunquam habuit cursus menstrues troubled with a great cold and obstruction in her brest.

RN Iohn Durrhā of litle Horwood 20 y serv to M^r Sandes Aug 15 h {sic}. hor. 4. 30 p m. 1618 /feb. malig. extreme cold in his chest.\

RN Elisabeth Chester 34 yeres cold in her armes & neck bone Mart. 12. {sic} 48. 50. 1599. & her sonn will who is amisse in her|is| lims who cannot stand & looketh weakly.

RN Margaret Archer of Calverton’ 34 yeres quærit remediū 7 of novemb die ♂ ♄ {sic}. 9. 6. mi. 1598 shee hath her bene maried this 20 yere nev^r had child shee hath them every three weekes but after thick of hearing stopt in the chest meate hath not his passage Downe a cold body & stomacke.

RN Edmund Nichols of litle Woulson 38 maried this 2 yeres. never a child trouled w^th an ache in his inner side of his thigh & huckbone to the knee had it longe agoe but not so mutch as nowe 3i of March. die ♄. h. 9. 10. mi. ant m. 1599. a cold ache

GJ Nathaniell Kirkland of Haversham. Apr. 10 ☉ ho. 7. 30 p. m. 1603 sent for a p^rparat & pilles a Cold stomacke, and troubled w^th flegme

RN Mres Bridget Moore 18. y Apr. 20. ♀. h. 12. 11. 45. ant m 16i0. very cold every where & troubled w^th a rising & slepeth not.

RN Chrystopher Hanwell of Byssetour 50 y novēb 24 ☿ h. 8 ant m. 1624 /a hot ach frō the rayns to the knes begying w^th a chilling not hart sick.\

RN Mres Dorothy Latymer. 25 y may 10 ♃ h. 4. 40 p m 1632 |An extreme cold over all her body cānot sleepe|

& my opinion touching his bewitched child by 2 witches/

RN Mres Anderson her letter London may 6 ♀ h. 11 25 1625

wheath^r leaches are good for her {illeg}|b|y tyes & what good to vse for the extrme {sic} heat in her hands & coldnes of her feete 3 what to quench her great drouth & thirste. 4 to make her sleepe

Is cōtinually Drye would know my iudg touching her fortune

RN Ioane Leavins of Imly 22 y a wench Decēb 23. ☿ h. 5 \4. 40/. p. m 1629¹

her secreat places burne exceedingly & swell w^th sutch payne y^t she cā hardly make water & yet maketh very litle

hath a Droutch y^t nothing well quench her thirst

hath a hot & a dry liver & a cold stomack

craveth a cooling playster for her liver hath 2 dig

wheath^r she shall vse her cels of pouder every day or oth^r day cānot make water/

RN Will Young of Illing beyond S^t yeedes 58 y novēb. 9 ♂ h. 3. p m 1619.

an aguish thick red water. / sick the thursd before S^t Nich his day. a twelfemonth something smyt him on the chest le{illeg}|n|ing {sic} \leaning/ agaynst a tree by w^th mutch gryping in his belly a swelling in his body sometymes hot & sometymes cold w^th a nūmnes in his legs y^t he cānot goe for it. loose body. cānot eate nor drinke by fits.

is vp every day more or les.

Is so swelled in his body y^t he cā scarce get his cleathes togeath^r by fits his legs

RN {I}ohn Evans of the Mynrys in London Iue {sic} 19 ♃ h. 6 p m. 1628

writeth for a gent mā

first vnfoldeth his owne greefe how he is wrōged & cosened of all y^t he hath & therby he his wife & childrē broght to great want & misery craveth my Counsell & instruction

Also writeth in the behalfe of a gentlemā y^t having taken an extreme cold & p^rsently an exceeding greefe for the Death of his wife & {th}erby cast Downe into sicknes & mutch melancholy of a sanguyne cōplexion his sicknes & melancholy is mutch abated & now his voice is almost Lost y^t he s cānot {sic} \on cānot/ spea heare on \him/ that speaketh {sic} \to speake/ a yard of

cōplayneth of something about the pit of his throate his voice is only low & weake but not troubled w^th any fault in noncing but cleere inough every where no physick but cōplayneth of the coldnes of his stomack & head & sone {sic} stoppage about the begying of his nose cold flegme & cold head & defect in hearing hath 2 great manyscripts of physick y^t he is Desyrous I should vse craveth vnder god my consayle for the frind his gentleman

RN Will Odyll of Cranfild 23 y a batch Aug 2. ☾ h. 1. 25 p m. 1619. /hed cold & rheumatick eys water\

RN Richard Māning of Hartwell 20 yeres sick this 7 weekes & can doe not doe any thing taketh him leeke an ague & when it cōmeth w^th a shaking colde & going away it maketh him as it were blind it so troubleth his hed. sent this 18 of Apr: die ☿ h. 1. 2|1|5. m pnn {sic} 1599.