Mary Hall, begins to grow ill in the autumn of 1663. Her illness begins 'first in one foot with a trembling shaking and Convulsive motion, afterwards it possessed both; she would sit stamping very much; she had sometimes like Epileptick, sometimes like Convulsive fits, and strange ejaculations." (32)

Dr. Woodhouse diagnoses and begins to treat Mary Hall for her distemper. He prepares "stinking Suffumigations, over which she held her head, and sometimes did strain to vomit." Her illness seems, at least for "some weekes" to be somewhat abated. Woodhouse appears to continue acting as her physician during this time.(32)