Casebooks

RN I receaved a lett^r from mres francis fortiskue novēb. 7. ♃ 8 ant m 16i6 she telleth me y^t is 3 weekes \come satterday./ sinc y^t she had her fit. {w}{illeg}d

her hed seetheeth {sic} but mutch better. god be thanked her pils worke at each tyme twice taken 12 tymes

RN Mr Turveys \of Wicken/ vomyt gave him eight reasonable grat vomits. his purge gave him 6 stooles on vomyt & aftr his vomyt some 3 stooles more more bound after his physick hath bene let blood. & it was very blue full of melancholy blood sinc his letting blood his wynd collicke \in his/ backe & syde mutch eased. & nowe cōplayneth as before w^th a rūning humour in his feete & desyres when tyme shall serve to blede them.

RN M^r Henry Hanson sent vnto me Apr. 6. ☾ h. 1|3|. 12. 1607 to signify that his wife cā have no remedy for her tooth ach & that her pils wrought extremely as if shee should dye w^th them.

RN Avys Bradbery was p^rtely mended w^th her playster. & after the playster it went downe into her legs & instep & now is sick at harte Iuly 25. 1611 h. 9 ant m 1611.

RN M^r francis Combes M^r {sic} Apr 1. ☾ h. 5 p. m 16i6 cā abyde no wet nor wynd. eys bad dersyreth a direction in writing

his physick w^ch I sent him did him no good.

M^res Mary Combes. tooke her physick it did her some good but now her other cheeke is swelled. vryne good

RN Mres Hanslop y^t lay here sent to me y^t she fyndeth litle ease in her head though y^t the Issue doe run well. |of Tharpe in warrick shere 26 y. May 5 ♂ h. 6 30 p m 1630|

would have me to send her something

M^r Edmund Vaghan of C. C. C. Oxon. Apr. 11. ☿. h. 9. p m. 1632

Hee tooke not the vomite y^t was sent. 1 because hee is very vnapt to vomite; 2 because his neck is longe & brest somewhat straite; 3 because vomiteinge once by chance by reason of Tobacco blowne into his mouth it brought vp Bloud w^th it, & hath beene y^e cause of all his infirmity. 4 hee suspecteth his Lunges, for w^ch hee thinkes vomiteing is very hurtfull.

Took his purge w^ch gaue him 12 occasions. Hee desireth a Course to bee vsed for his Brest & Lunges.

RN Ione Lane of this towne Iuly 5 ☿ h. 7. 15 ant m 16i5 sent her water. vtrū sit gravida. loosenes well stopt god be thanked w^th her bynding elect. but sorely gryped in her chest & belly¹

RN my old Lady Harington 60 y may. 26. ♃ h. 2. 20 p m 163i

1 her oldest daughter p^rty well /Mres Iane Harrington 21 y\

2 but the younger mutch at on & ill in her stomack as before no appetite to eate cōpl of extreme payne in her syde of the right syde feareth y^t she is liv^r growen

RN Mres Chester of Tylswort M^r Henry Chesters wife 24 y Iune 14. ♂ h. 7 ant m. 163i

terms stopt sinc christas her left leg swelled hot.¹

my pultish made it to blyster. & she applyed Cowe Dung & butter to it

Toke my Dyet Drink & it wroght well for 5 days & abated the swelling & sinc it is cōme agayne |imputeth her swelling to the stopping of her terms|

would know wheath^r good to bleed & in what places.

desyreth to have a good purg. /w^th a fulnes of her stomack.\

RN Henry lea 29 y of bechampton. his phisick did not worke Decēb^r 13 die ♃ h. 11. pater sine consensu filij paynd in his eye & head. & his {rhee} rheume & ey rūneth. ant m. 1599.

TG Robert Stone of Grondon 24 y. Mert {sic}. 25 ♂ h. 12 mer. 1634. he was here about candlemes & had a vomite which did easy him for a time of his cough, but now he cougheth not so much, but hath a constant paine on his right breast, which will not give him leave to cough.

RN Her Husb S^r Symon is well recoavered god be praysed yet feeleth a stitch vnder his left pap & a cold an ach in the calfe of his leg w^ch my {sic} cede of cold feb 6 h. 6 p m 1623

RN Mres {sic} Crawlys physick wrought well vomyts & pils yet troubled w^th a hot rheme in her|is| left ey & a heavynes hinder t of his head in his ioynts & ankles & kne & right leg may 9 ☿ h. 1. p m 1632

desyrous of a purging dyet Drink.

RN M^r Iermyn of Exeter colledg & M^r Thomas Harrys 19 y. may Iune 1. ☿ h. 5. p. m. 1614. |m^r Iernyn feareth eyther Dropsy or cōsūption mutch troubled w^th wynd & belly somewhat swelled cānot sleepe. his cordiall I first sent him did him mutch good./|