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Medical Thoughts of Shakespeare

Chapter 1: MEDICAL THOUGHTS OF SHAKESPEARE.
By Benjamin Rush Field
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The author surveys Shakespeare's medical references and portrayals, compiling numerous quotations to illustrate how ailments, treatments, practitioners, and anatomy appear across the plays. Organized into chapters on the physician, practice of medicine, surgery, obstetrics, physiology, anatomy, and pharmacy, the volume pairs textual examples with explanatory commentary and occasional supplementary medical observations from other writers. It examines representations of mental disturbance, fever, wounds, contagion, and therapeutics, and considers how dramatic characterization reflects contemporary medical beliefs and practice. The work highlights both the playwright's command of medical terminology and the use of medical detail to develop plot and character.

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Title: Medical Thoughts of Shakespeare

Author: Benjamin Rush Field

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Language: English

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MEDICAL THOUGHTS
OF
SHAKESPEARE.

By B. RUSH FIELD, M. D.,

MEMBER OF THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY
OF NEW YORK.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.

EASTON, PA.:
ANDREWS & CLIFTON, PUBLISHERS.
1885.

TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.

PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.

If any old lady, knight, priest or physician, Should condemn me for writing a second edition; If good Madam Squintum my work should abuse, May I venture to give her a smack of my muse? Anstey’s New Bath Guide, p. 169.

The occasion is taken to acknowledge the kind consideration that the first edition of this little work has received. This edition appears in a thoroughly revised and much enlarged form; to what extent, may be judged by the fact that chapters on The Physician, Surgery, Physiology, Anatomy and Pharmacy have been added, together with many allusions to the other medical subjects, making an increase of over four hundred quotations. It has been impossible to resist the temptation of adding a few medical thoughts from other authors, which will be found under their appropriate heads. The labor necessary to accomplish this has not interfered in any way with professional duties; it being a task entirely of the leisure hours of the night.

Easton, Pennsylvania, June, 1885.

CONTENTS.

PART I.
The Physician,  7
PART II.
Practice of Medicine, 13
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.
PART III.
Surgery, 49
Surgery and the Surgeon, 49. Syphilis, 50. Diseases of the Eye, 53.
Wounds, 53. Miscellaneous, 55.
PART IV.
Obstetrics, 59
Marriageable Age, 59. Fecundation, 62, Character of Offspring, 63.
Pregnancy, 64. Labor, 66. Miscellaneous, 71.
PART V.
Physiology, 73
Of the Circulation of the Blood, 73. Of the Digestive Process, 78.
Miscellaneous, 80.
PART VI.
Anatomy, 83
PART VII.
Pharmacy, 85