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Diseases of Nervous System, 13; of Circulatory System, 22; of Respiratory System, 25; of Digestive System, 26; of Secretory System, 29. Fevers and other General Diseases, 32. Action of Medicines, 37. Miscellaneous—Age and Death, 43.
Shakespeare’s maladies are many and the symptoms very well defined. Diseases of the nervous system seem to have been a favorite study, especially insanity; Lear, Timon, and Haml...
8. PART IV.Obstetrics was Shakespeare’s favorite branch of the profession, and he has not been at all sparing in reference to it. Under this head will be included many topics which could m...
9. PART V.Mr. Hackett, noticing the numerous allusions in Shakespeare to the blood, and to a circulation of this fluid to and from the heart or the liver, was led, in 1859, to express the...
7. PART III.Shakespeare paid much more attention to the practice of medicine and obstetrics than to surgery. Perhaps the cause of this was that at that time surgery had not reached its pres...
5. PART I.Shakespeare’s education was not, by any means, hedged in by plots and characters; besides these, his mighty mind seems to have teemed with the knowledge of languages, medicine,...
10. PART VI._Ant. S._ What’s her name? _Dro. S._ Nell, sir; but her name and three-quarters, that’s an ell and three-quarters, will not measure her from hip to hip. _Ant. S._ Then she bears...
11. PART VII.I do remember an apothecary,— And hereabouts he dwells,—which late I noted In tatter’d weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples: meagre were his looks, Sharp misery ha...
1. PART II.Diseases of Nervous System, 13; of Circulatory System, 22; of Respiratory System, 25; of Digestive System, 26; of Secretory System, 29. Fevers and other General Diseases, 32. Ac...
2. PART III.3. PART IV.4. PART V.