Casebooks

RN M^r Barry sent me a lett^r touching his wifes & his sisters physicks working octob 17 ♂ h. 2. 39 p m 16i5

& would have me to send thē something more as I sawe good he will send x days henc his mā to nep|w|port & then send it

RN Aug 8 ♃ h. 8. 20 p m. 1633

I receaved a letter frō mres Quck {sic} y^t the lady Magdalen by means of y^e lady {sic} \Countes/ her mother. hath bene forced to vs fast. & to keepe a fast but once the Countes hath made the lady Magd to keepe an exact dyet & fasting & hath abstaynd frō the vse of any p^rscribed by me & semeth to be mutch better for it

craveth a masse of my pils

the lady Magdalen was lately sick but now mutch amended.

The lady Alce well w^thout taking any physick

RN Katheron Samdon {sic} of Woulverton Novemb. 20 ♃ h. 12.. no vomit will doe her good her last physick y^t I gave her in poud^r wrought well w^th her./

GJ Ellen Purryer of Ecton 19 y. Febr 8 ☿ ho. 2. 15 p. m. 1604

She sent her water againe but the messenger brake the glasse by the way vide Ian: 26

She is somewhat amended since her last physicke /

GJ M^rs Goodfellow sent that her diett Drinke wrought not although she tooke yesterday thrice of it Sept. 6 ♃ ho. 10 5. a m. 1604

RN At this tyme on came for his wife who is desperate & tooke my vomyt but is never the better./

RN my lady Dickby sent a lett^r & did like well of her drinke & did desyr my cōpany against {monday} next Iuly 2. ♃ h. 4 p m1607.

RN Mres mary peane octob 28 sent me word that her pils made her mellancholy. octob 28. ☿ h. 2. p m 1607.

RN I met m^r Hūfry Robynson at Stony stratford & he told me y^t kather. Robynson pyneth & cōsumeth aftr {sic} my letting of her blood & physick. Iuly 5 h. 10. ant m 1608

RN The lady Compton sent me word how her pils wrought very many stooles w^ch were last faynt \sent/ her may 12. ♀ h. 12. 30 p m 1609.

RN Mres Dennys leate desyred me y^t she might take her drinke but 2 days more because she was growen very weake with y^t she had already taken. Iuly 7 ♀ h. 7. ant m 1609.

RN I receaved a lett^r from M^r Bouth Signifying y^t his wife took her vomyt & purg & neav^r a on wrought at all but made her very sick may 13 ♃ h. 5 pm 1619

RN Goody Shermā of Woulverton brought me a cock & a hen her daughter had but on fit after her medsons. Ap 7. h. 9. 38 ant m 162i

RN The Lady West & the Lady de Lespencer sent for Mres Crosts to goe to her grandmotter Dup & not to come Home to thē for feare of relapse

& sent me 5^l for m^rs Crosts & the lady West a peece for her child.

quærit vtrū sit gravida

renēb {sic} to write to her & to the Bayly for his Child \the falling sicknes/ & to the lady Westmorland & to the lady delespencer et vtrū Her daughter lady Humes be gravida & in y^e behalfe of Mres Crosts. \is Costive always// her dyet \purging Drink/ wroght 3 or 4 tys {sic} a day

fearth astringent playsters will bynd it

I had 5^l of the lady Delespencer & a peece frō the old lady Westmorland for my Counsell for her child |Ap 13.|

M^res Crost was willed for feare of relapse to goe to her Grandmother Dup for a while I wished her to stay vntill the 8 of May 8.

RN Alce Parker of Woulverton sent to me for my counsell Ian 6 ☿ hor 2. 20 p m 1602. her stib & other physick never wrought.

RN My Cosen Clare craveth my counsell may 18 ♃ h. 6. 30 p m 1620

her physick wroght {wel} {sic} well. but her pils wrght made her to vomyt.

would know wheath^r she should take cābridg water w^ch she onc did t|w|^th out any good hath no mynd vnto it

RN Mres Neale sent to tell me y^t shee was wonderfully hoven boath before & aft^r her physick & greeped Ap 17 die ♃ h. 8 ant m. 1600

W M^ris Sara Tristrā of Hitchin came at the same tyme to be lett bloode in the foote shee had her sicknes soome .5. days a goe for .3. days but somwhat waterish⸫

The phisick shee had last gaue her the first tyme of takinge .5. stools the .2. tyme .9. stools⸫

RN The lady Dickby of Gothurst Iune 24. ☿ h. 6. 38 ant m. 1607. hath spent her dyet Drink drinking no oth^r drinke hath taken it some six days & thre days it gave her four stooles a daye & two dayes but 2 a daye it weakneth not yet giveth litle amendment.

had them lately but pale.

would know wheath^r shee is to vide any more./

W M^r Paule Dorrell Iune 30. ☾ {sic}. hor. 1. 30 P. M. 1612⸫ sent his man w^th a letter he had not vsed the powder, so he had nothinge: for his wife