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CASE10605: Horary consultation concerning Bartholomew Goodman (PERSON12244)

Question asked by the patient on 18 May 1600 at 07:00

RN Bartholomeus Goodmā 27. y. maij {2}|1|8. die ||  {sic}. 7. ant m. 1600.

a sudden heate & swelling

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 202, f. 72v (bottom right part of page)

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CASE60760: Horary consultation concerning George Nashe (PERSON55176)

Question asked by the patient on 5 July 1625 at 15:00

RN Georg Nash of North Crowly 30 y Iuly. 5 h. 2|3|. p m 1625. /a burning ovr all his body & boath cods swelled red & hot & faynt\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 217, f. 137v (middle right part of page)

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CASE51713: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Jennyson (PERSON52524)

Question asked by the patient on 26 October 1620 at 12:30

RN Mres Iemyson of Irchester. 56 y octob 26. h. 12. 30 p m 1620 /faynting outwardly cold inwardly hot swelled\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 414, f. 211r (upper right part of page)

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CASE30506: Horary consultation concerning John Bennet (PERSON22078)

Question asked by the patient on 21 January 1607 at 16:00

RN Iohn Bennet of Newnton longfild 2|3|3 y Ian. 21. h. 4 p m 1607

for a sawcy face/ burning red & pimpleth.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 193, f. 58v (bottom left part of page)

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CASE53666: Horary consultation concerning John Stiles (PERSON59624)

Question asked by the patient on 7 March 1622 at 16:00

RN Iohn Stiles of Dunton 26 y march 7 h 4 p m 1622

eyes & face swell{ed} & hot & scalding

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 223, f. 16v (upper right part of page)

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CASE57946: Horary consultation concerning Hopkins (PERSON51840)

Question asked by the patient on 20 March 1624 at 08:39

RN young {illeg}|I|ohn Hopkins wife march 20 hor 8. 39 ant m /1624\ 36 y face swelled & hot stomack hot

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 114v (bottom part of page)

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CASE53520: Horary consultation concerning Clemence Ruly (PERSON62969)

Question asked by the patient on 1 February 1622 at 09:25

RW Clement Rulie d. . h: 9. 25. p: mer: Feb: 1. 1622. taken suddenly wth a riseing in \her/ stomacke wch is readie to stop her winde: her hands cold; highe coloured in her face & swetteth: hath a heate in her bodie

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 231, f. 175v (bottom left part of page)

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CASE12829: Horary consultation concerning Margery Norman (PERSON14499)

Question asked by the patient on 20 October 1599 at 14:15

RN Margery Norman of Weston 45 for the payne in her backe & chest & a swellinge & a greate heate in her stomacke Octob. 20 die h. 2. 15. p m. 1599.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 222r (upper left part of page)

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CASE17477: Horary consultation concerning Alice Howse (PERSON12996)

Question asked by the patient on 8 July 1602 at 16:00

RN Alce Howes his wife 44 y at the same tyme for a great swelling & itching heate & pimpels in her face. Iuly 8 hor 4. p m 1602.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 221, f. 132v (upper right part of page)

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CASE12408: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Shephard (PERSON15766)

Question asked by the patient on 8 May 1599 between 08:45 and 10:00

RN Elisabeth Shefhard of lathbury 23. hath not her Courses very well payned in her hed. & eyes doe swell. wth a great heate a great breaking out.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 155r (upper left part of page)

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CASE72336: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Judith Chester (PERSON46005)

Question asked by the patient on 14 June 1631 at 07:00

RN Mres Chester of Tylswort Mr Henry Chesters wife 24 y Iune 14. h. 7 ant m. 163i

[Astrological Chart]

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 wheathr good to bleed & in what places.

desyreth to have a good purg. /wth a fulnes of her stomack.\

Notes:

1 ‘her left leg swelled’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 232, p. 422 (upper left part of page)

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CASE15555: Horary consultation concerning William Harrison (PERSON12583)

Question asked by the patient on 12 September 1603 at 09:00

RN Wylliā Harryson of Astwood 50 y sept 12 hor 9. ant m. 1603 for a swelling in his necke & throate wth a great burning. cānot swallow any thing

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 207, f. 130v (upper left part of page)

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CASE33490: Horary consultation concerning Grace Mead (PERSON24442)

Question asked by the patient on 31 May 1608 at 12:50

GJ Grace Meade of Bote Cla{idon} 40 y. Maij 31 ho 12. 50 p. m. 1608

Swelled in all her body very hott & thirsty

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 229, f. 119v (bottom right part of page)

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CASE78916: Horary consultation concerning Sara Harrison (PERSON51016)

Question asked by the patient on 24 March 1634 at 10:45

TG Sara Harrison of Neoport 36. y. Mart. 24 h. 10 45 Am. 1634. was swelled over all her body but now is burning & sometimes very cold.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 412, f. 110r (upper left part of page)

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CASE12278: Horary consultation concerning Amy Fuller (PERSON11987)

Question asked by the patient on 23 April 1599 at 14:50

RN Amy fuller 30. her \right/ shoulder right leg. & her hand hath as it were a crampe & of late broken out. swelled & blistered & very hot & a thin face but well coloored her toes will not styrre Apr. 23. die h. 2. 50. m p m. 1599. whitsontide wilbe a twelmoneth. of Cranfild.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 134r (upper left part of page)

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CASE28009: Horary/Geomantic combined concerning John Jefferies (PERSON20019)

Question asked by the patient on 22 August 1606 at 14:50

GJ Iohn Ieffry of Tingewicke 34 y Aug. 22 ho. 2. 50 p. m. 1606 A swelling in his knee tooke him on monday was sevenight burnes and is very hott that he cannot sleepe the left knee he sweates as he lyes

[Astrological Chart]

metuit veneficiū

[Preliminary Geomantic Chart]

[Geomantic Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 215, f. 255r (bottom left, and upper right parts of page)

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CASE67531: Horary consultation concerning Mr Peter Fawthrot (PERSON30312)

Question asked by the patient on 29 December 1628 at 09:30

RN Mr Fawtrot cōplayned of the swelling in his head hot & red Decēb 29 h 9 25|30| ante m 1628.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 407, f. 13v (middle left part of page)

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CASE78934: Horary consultation concerning Brown (PERSON45035)

Question asked by the patient on 25 March 1634 at 19:00

TG Thomas Brownes wife of Rance {illeg}|3|2 y. March 25 h. 7 p M. 1634 hath a heate & swelling which first begann in her face & now runneth from one member into anothersuspecteth wichcraft. hath beene troubled this 12 moneth.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 412, f. 111v (middle right part of page)

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CASE12237: Horary consultation concerning Goodman Thomas Gardner (PERSON12047)

Question asked by the patient on 18 April 1599 at 07:00

RN Thomas Gardner of Dunsanger of 62 yeres old yt pissed blood & was mended by the herb yt I sent him in a receipte. sinc yt time had on Waly who hath wth his Clisters Done him litle good but is swollen in his belly wc is growen very harde. & mutch payned in his share & can make but a litle water halfe a sponefull at a time would knowe wheathr leekly to die or live. went not to ground sinc munday last about 12 a clocke sent to me this 18 of Apr. die . h. 7. ant m 1599 burneth in his yarde.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 125v (upper left part of page)

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CASE49923: Horary consultation concerning Goodman William Young (PERSON37175)

Question asked by the patient on 9 November 1619 at 15:00

RN Will Young of Illing beyond St yeedes 58 y novēb. 9 h. 3. p m 1619.

an aguish thick red water. / sick the thursd before St Nich his day. a twelfemonth something smyt him on the chest le{illeg}|n|ing {sic} \leaning/ agaynst a tree by wth mutch gryping in his belly a swelling in his body sometymes hot & sometymes cold wth a nūmnes in his legs yt 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 yt he cā scarce get his cleathes togeathr by fits his legs

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 213, f. 51v (upper left part of page)

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/search?f4-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29%3A%3ABloating%20and%20swelling%3A%3ASwelling;f7-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29%3A%3ABurning%20and%20inflamed;f8-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29, accessed 16 March 2025.