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CASE12955: Interrogation (Treatment) concerning Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] [Richard Napier [Senior]] (PERSON5218)

Question asked by the patient between 6 January 1600 at 08:35 and 7 January 1600 at 11:30

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Richard Napier The surgions in Oxford began to cut Mr Thomas Longfilds head & afterward seered his scull & afterward Did Drill his skull that is poure vppō his skull some corrosives that so they may {sic} g|m|ight get out a bladder wc they thought caused his madnes. but he the {sic} begā to cut his head the 5 of Decēb. die h p m 3. 30. mi. 1599. but he dyed the weddensday moneth after or the tuesday

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Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 249r (upper right part of page)

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘CASE12955’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/cases/CASE12955, accessed 19 May 2025.