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Benjamin Rush Field
Medical Thoughts of Shakespeare
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338072665
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PART I.
THE PHYSICIAN.
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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, law and court etiquette. It is wonderful that one brain could shine forth such a vast variety, and surprising that he has even gone into the minutiæ of the different avenues of learning through which he has stridden. Shakespeare paid considerable attention to medicine, and has furnished some of the finest specimens of the medical character that have ever been drawn by any writer. His Cerimon, in Pericles, is a most noble one. He speaks for himself:
’Tis known, I ever Have studied physic, through which secret art, By turning o’er authorities, I have (Together with my practice,) made familiar To me and to my aid, the bless’d infusions That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones; And I can speak of the disturbances That nature works, and of her cures; which doth give me A more content in course of true delight Than to be thirsty after tottering honour, Or tie my treasure up in silken bags To please the fool and death. Act III., Sc. II.