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CASE12311: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Hall (PERSON12488)

Question asked by the patient on 25 April 1599 at 15:20

RN Elisabeth Hall of Woulverton 8 for 35 yeres. hath a great swelling in her legs hath not had her courses & her breast sometimes swollen with them. & never had her Courses kindly great greefe & thought by reason of the detur of fathr & mothr all {al} in one weeke Ap. 25 die h. 3. 20 p m. 1599.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 139r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE18814: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSON18397)

Question asked by the patient on 20 January 1599 at 08:00

RN Ian. 20 die hor 8 I went to see a sick woma swollen in her legs & thighes for that shee hath not her courses. hed ach 1599.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 404, f. 13r (upper right part of page)

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CASE59898: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Bletsoe (PERSON44283)

Question asked by Mr Thomas Bletsoe (PERSON44282) on 10 March 1625 at 12:30

RN Mr {illeg}|B|letsoe of Rusdon \ vxore vtrū sit gravida/ 22. y. . h. 12. 30 p |m| 1625. /terms stopt about miklemas milke in her breast water & milke.\1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1quærit etiā an vtile sit ei sang miniere {sic}.’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 217, f. 7v (upper right part of page)

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CASE64893: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Andrews (PERSON42743)

Question asked by the patient on 5 November 1627 at 16:00

RN Mres Androws of Alce 2|3|6 y. novēb. 5. h. 4 p m. 1627 temes {sic} stopt Left syde melanch fleg.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 227, f. 264r (upper left part of page)

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CASE26011: Horary consultation concerning Anne Bell (PERSON62556)

Question asked by the patient on 14 September 1625 at 09:50

RW Anne Bell of Hartwell. y 25. d. . h: 9. 50. ant: m: Sept: 14. 1625 non habuit menses 4 hebdomadas. pectore, tergo{q{}} gra{u}ata. virgo vt ait

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 174, p. 388 (middle left part of page)

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CASE35550: Horary consultation concerning Anne Rudgely (PERSON25192)

Question asked by the patient on 1 May 1609 at 18:36

RN Ambrose Rudgley Daughtr of 18 y may 1. h. 6 36 p m 1609 {illeg}|s|hortwyded for no sicknes a good while.

a pearle in her eye

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 203, f. 20r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE52873: Horary consultation concerning Anne Burgess (PERSON45266)

Question asked by the patient on 19 July 1621 at 09:00

RN my mayd An Burges termes stopt belly stomak Iuly 19 h. 9. ant m 162i

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 231, f. 52r (upper right part of page)

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CASE62316: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Frances Blowfild [Old Mrs Blowfild] (PERSON28164)

Question asked by the patient on 10 May 1626 at 16:00

RN Mres francis Blowfild {illeg} of flitwick 50|4|. y. may 10 hor 4. p m 1626.

she is clogged at her stomack ready to stop her wynd

her flux downward somwhat stayd yet voydeth mutch thick blood at her nose in clotters

she Desyreth some of her old syrop yt she had in may Last

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 224, f. 200v (bottom right part of page)

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CASE18680: Horary consultation concerning Alice Swan (PERSON16285)

Question asked by the patient on 7 February 1603 between 12:50 and 14:45

RN Alce Swan of Wellingborough 40 y hath no courses back belly & payned as a woman wth child as it were wth the stone.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 221, f. 305r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE78050: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Elizabeth Potter (PERSON56986)

Question asked by the patient on 15 August 1633 at 10:00

RN Elis Potter of Newp. 21 y mayed {sic} a yere & a month. Aug. 15  {sic} h 10 ant m 1633

hath not had thē 6 or 7 weekes. head & chest: back weake

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 211, p. 380 (upper left part of page)

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CASE12324: Horary consultation concerning Agnes [Anne] Fisher (PERSON11767)

Question asked by the patient on 26 April 1599 at 11:30

RN Agnes fisher of Newport servant to Foster the carier 23 yeres hath not her Courses & is swollen in her legs & hoven in \about/ her harte. & cannot take her winde at 11. 30. mi p m {sic}. 1599.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 140v (bottom right part of page)

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CASE11932: Horary consultation concerning Toucher (PERSON16500)

Question asked by the patient on 3 January 1599 at 12:09

RN Mr {sic} Charels Tutcher Charles at Stonystratford at the swan of 2 neckes. 45. sick this fortnight. sonewhat {sic} Costive shee doth bleede & is very mutch stuffed in her chest can scarce tak her winde. ready to sound a grosse & fat woman. sent a poer woman. Ian. 3. die . h. 12. 9. mi. 1599. \at 1. p m /|twice & thrice a day bleedeth at ye nose. half a pint at a time \every othr daye/|

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Charels Touchers wife hath not had her termes this 6 yeres her stomack hoven & her hed ill & backe her wombe & chest stuffed short winded. hart ill water good. yellowe but thin. taken a greefe for payment of monyes for her husb. brother for s{ur}tiship. 200li

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 77r (upper left, and upper right parts of page)

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CASE11948: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Susan Andrews (PERSON9163)

Question asked by the patient on 20 February 1599 at 10:30

RN Mres Androwes of Broug{h}ton sent to me the 20 of feb. die h. 10. 30. ant 1599 payned in her hed all to the nose. litle courses or none. swelleth in her bodye

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 79v (upper right part of page)

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CASE73635: Horary consultation concerning Mary Clark (PERSON46293)

Question asked by the patient on 16 January 1632 between 11:25 and 13:30

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.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 212, p. 394 (bottom left part of page)

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CASE79792: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Anne Cotta (PERSON47019)

Question asked by the patient on 14 November 1635 at 10:00

SRN Mrs. Cotta of Coventrey. sent her ler Novemƀ. 14. h. 10. a. m. 1635.

The vomitt did worke, vpward & 5 tymes downeward. the pills wrought well & she was let blood arme & Foote:

hath not had yem since March Last, now finds her Liuer distemperd & a payne there. desires the opening drinke or the receipt

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 340, f. 136r (upper right part of page)

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CASE11746: Horary consultation concerning Reade (PERSON15198)

Question asked by the patient on 12 October 1598 no earlier than 08:30

RN her daughtr moved for her selfe for her back & hart long that shee hath not her courses but onc this twelf monthe.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 42r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE16025: Horary consultation concerning Agnes Brightwell (PERSON10015)

Question asked by the patient between 1 January 1604 at 19:00 and 2 January 1604 at 09:30

RN Agnys Brightwell of newport 46 y maried. i6 yeres sinc had a child. never sinc any, a cough had not had her sicknes this yere hed ill stomacke bound cānot abyde the sent of meate no sleepe.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 207, f. 177r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE12195: Horary consultation concerning Amy Hoding (PERSON12829)

Question asked by the patient on 2 April 1599 at 14:15

RN Amy Hoding of Addington 18 yeres of age. never had her couse {sic}. lyeth in her hed & chest & soppeth {sic} her eares. swollen in her feete & morning in her face & & eys & avoydeth bloode vpward d|A|pr. die h. 2. 15. m p m. 1599.

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Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 119v (upper right, and bottom right parts of page)

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CASE15666: Horary consultation concerning Joan Fisher (PERSON11784)

Question asked by the patient on 1 October 1603 at 13:45

GJ Ioane Fisher of Stonystratford 23 y. Octob j. ho 1. 45 p m. 1603

A great payne in her backe

menses obstructi these 2 or 3 yeeres

Thomas Colyns a malsters mayde

Ill many tymes in her stomacke sometymes ready to swound

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 207, f. 142v (bottom left part of page)

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CASE12074: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth [Isabel] Buckstone (PERSON10146)

Question asked by the patient between 13 March 1599 at 14:30 and 14 March 1599 at 11:10

RN Isbell Buckstone in Lilingstone parish. 3i. for the [stoppings?] of her heart last year //. cordis terminib. anno. elapso /–.. 3bus annis caruit mensib.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 101v (bottom 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?f7-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body;f8-judgment=No;f9-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AWomen%E2%80%99s%20matters%3A%3AMenstrual%20problems%3A%3ANo%20courses, accessed 2 March 2025.