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

  • Stearns, Charles W. (Charles Woodward), 1818-1887.
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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    SHAKESPEARE'S MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE. Why should not we of the Healing Art claim our share in Glorious Will ? Lord Chancellor Campbell has written a book, in which he claims that Shakespeare in his youth must have been at least an attorney's clerk, if not something more, for such is the famili- arity with legal matters carelessly betrayed in the poet's writings. It may sound pre- sumptuous to say that the Lord Chancellor, in his law argument, might easily mend his instances; but literature is a republic in which there are no privileged orders. The obscurity of Shakespeare's youth, taken in connection with the universal knowl- 2