Casebooks

RN Rich Kerby Miller of Newport 60 \56/ yeres old. long & grevously sick {filiu}s  patre \{servus}  Domino/ cū euꝯ {sic} consensu it hath held this 4 yeres by fits but this quarter of this yere held him sorely & keepeth home some days his bed in his fit & then abroad. a payne in his hart w^th a sighing black coloured very fat of his face but w^th this sicknes shrunk in his bodye & legs. M^r yarrow for him novemb. {sic} 1 Decēb. die ♀ h. 10. 15. 1598¹

RN widowe Scamler fell sicke as shee told me about die ♂ hor 10 ant merd {sic} Iulij xj^th 1598. it tooke her in the small of the backe & reanes.

RN Rich Child of Puddington natus Aug 7 betwxt {sic} 10 & eleaven at night 1572 but came to me octob 10 ☾ h. 2. 30 p m. 163i |{g}randfathers & vnkle have dyed of the {g}angree {sic} & hath {th}e same signes./|¹

RN Lawrenc Chamberlayne kinsmā to M^r Adams of Stachden 39 y Iune 7. h {sic} hor. 9. ant m 1617 /& Mr Adams him selfe.\

M^r Adams of Stachden well recovered but his mouth is very soare the skyn of his stomack is so hot faynt & sickly a bad stomack Iune 7 h {sic} hor 9 ant m 1617 desyrous of a cool{in}g syrope or other cōforta{ter}

RN Anthony Smith for his sons Daughter 4 yeres old very exceeding sleepy can eat nothing keepeth her bed looketh pale. cōplayneth of her hed & her mouth sore & cannot swallowe. Octob. 10|1| die ♂ ♄ {sic}. 11. 25|0|. 1598.

RN M^r Potter of Willing the vicar for that soundeth on the \{at late}/ & very weake & feble in bodye & stomack & chest w^th a cold & overcame him. Ian. 3 die ♃ ♄ {sic}. 8. 15 ant m. 1599 1600.

RN 1 first in his neck 2 on his syde tormented him & drew his mouth asyde & tooke away his sences & memory l|&| did shake h{im} novēb. 10 ♄ hor 3 p m 162i¹

RN Mres Lane of great Wickhā. 59 y sept 1 ☿ h. 11. 20 1624 mayed {sic} 2 y. & before but neaver had child

|head lost| fell sicke on monday about 4 in the morning greevous sick

RN Old Malins of o^r towne 60 tooke a fall frō a carte & bruised his backe. Iuly. 23. ♀ hor. 1. 4|3|8. p m 1602.

RN Elis: Marcholl of Newp 59 y h {sic} hor 7. 30 ant m 1624. 60 next 9. days after alhallowtyde ☿ after martymas Day. came her selfe march 6 h {sic} hor 7. 30 ant m. 1624 /p^rsent a great Wen on her cheeke 26 y it was at first no bigger then a pease\

RN \Will: Lovely./ An old man of Newp. for his disease. Ascens. day 1598 die ♃. h. 1.^a p. merid he hath a great greeping about his harte.

GJ Richard Parsons of Bow brickhill 60 y. April. 18 ☾ ho. 4. 15 p m. 1603. pro Cephalalgia ex morbo Gallico.

U[1611–2] May. 16. d. ♃. ho. 8. ant. m. 16111

Isbel Hopkins was here before April. 25. April. 25. a hard swelling in her belly. to whome I only prescribed a mollifying pultis./

RN Mres Byrd of Hav^rshā sept 1. ☾ h. 3. 25 p m 1623.

for feare of a Dropsye a heate in her stomacke.

RN The lady Neavell of Holt Ap. 22. ♀. h. 11 ant m 1625.

desyreth some speedyer thing Inward & outwardto helpe her emrods & fundament y^t {bleede} & Issues

RN The lady fortiscue sen{t} at this tyne {sic} {illeg} {sic} melancholye & a h {sic} singing in her eare & cā take no rest full of wyd {sic}

D Griffens \or Gifford/ course of physick wheby the \Old/ Lady fortiscue was receaved octob 5 ☿ h. 2. 15 p m 163i or {sic}

RN margery Britten of our towne for an ague cold & hot w^ch maketh her very drye when the fit cōmeth. Octob 3. ☿ hor 5. 30 p m 1604 |a very bad stomacke.|

RW M^r Bayly of steeple claydon. y: 59. d. ♄. h: 11. 40. ant: m: Maij. 5. 1627. troubled with a vertigo or giddines in his head; & his speach beginneth to foulter.

RN Hugh Quick of Clyfton a husb. 59 y Ap 25. ☿ h. 7. ant m 1632 |hed burning hot a great cough & cold|

RN S^r Thomas Neavell \of Holte/ & his lady sent me a very fat lābe 2 cap & 3 couple of Rabbots May 30 ♀ h. 11. 40 ant m 1623.

an Ach in his instap & {sic} ankles by fits y^t at night he cā take no rest

boath of thē cōmend the oation of ther dyet drink purging