Shakespeare's medical knowledge / by Charles W. Stearns.

  • Charles Stearns
Date:
1865
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Credit: Shakespeare's medical knowledge / by Charles W. Stearns. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    or one of any other calling, he would learn more of those arts in six months, than he ever found occasion in after years to put into his dramas. Let us, therefore, intelligently admire Shakespeare's varied knowledge of the com- mon affairs of life, hy considering his vast capacity in connection with the fact, that this knowledge of his, at which we are so much astonished, is of that kind and degree that comes from observation, and not by special study or daily practice. Hence, though we are able to make up small volumes of extracts and quotations referring to law or to medicine, we are not, therefore, to conclude that he ever studied those professions, or had skill enough to practice them ; more than we are bound to believe that he ever turned brass candlesticks, tempered hair and lime into rough-cast, or that he rough-hewed, and after shaped the ends of wooden skewers. Volumes may likewise be filled, severally, with husbandry, farming, gardening, and do- mestic economy ; military and nautical affairs; 2*