Topics of consultations Within these classifications, the entry is labelled with at least one question category. The following lists provide definitions of these terms. They can also be read as an overview of the kinds of material documented in the casebooks. The non-medical questions have been further subdivided under a range of headings ('Health and wellbeing', 'Occult', 'Personal affairs', 'Sex, romance and marriage' and 'Worldly affairs') that will hopefully make it easier for readers to navigate the records. It should be stressed that these categories are not mutually exclusive. The topic 'pregnancy', for instance, features under both 'Personal affairs' and 'Health and wellbeing'. Although the vast majority of issues raised by Forman's and Napier's clients related to medical problems, many other questions were brought to the consulting room too. Moreover, it was not unusual for a given consultation to cover two or more completely distinct topics. It is not always possible to state for certain precisely what a querent was asking about, but so far as possible the entries have been designated as belonging to one or more of the following categories. The aim has been to delineate categories as they were understood by patients and practitioners at the time rather than to translate them into modern parlance. See also the guide to reading the texts for the various types of astrological enquiry deployed by the practitioners, each of which could be applied to a range of topics. In some entries, no question is recorded at all, merely the patient's