Medical Thoughts of Shakespeare

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Benjamin Rush Field. Medical Thoughts of Shakespeare

Medical Thoughts of Shakespeare

Table of Contents

PART I. THE PHYSICIAN

PART II. PRACTICE OF MEDICINE

PART III. SURGERY

PART IV. OBSTETRICS

PART V. PHYSIOLOGY

PART VI. ANATOMY

PART VII. PHARMACY

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Benjamin Rush Field

Published by Good Press, 2021

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In King Lear also appears a physician worthy of the name. The last scene of the fourth act shows his excellent skill in treating Lear’s case. Dr. Bucknill, of England, in writing of it twenty-five years ago, says: “We confess, almost with shame, that although near two centuries and a half have passed since Shakespeare thus wrote we have very little to add to his method of treating the insane as thus pointed out.”

Dr. Butts, in Henry VIII, and Dr. Caius, in Merry Wives, play rather unimportant parts. He compliments the profession by putting this speech in the mouth of a madman:

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