A rare medical book and its author / [Henry E Clark].

  • Clark, Henry E. (Henry Edward), 1845-1909.
Date:
1899
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Credit: A rare medical book and its author / [Henry E Clark]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    them were her husband’s, and shewed them to her. She denyed; I affirmed, till I perceived she began to be offended. At last I returned her the money.” Mr. Sidney Lee, in his interesting and generally accurate little book about Stratford-on-Avonfalls into the curious error of assuming that she did not sell them to Cooke:—‘‘ He informed her that some manuscripts of her husband were among them, and offered to buy them off her, hvbi she declined, and disputed his opinion as to the authorship of the papers.” Had Mr. Lee turned up the catalogue of any good medical library, he would have discovered that a translation into English of one of the manuscripts purchased (it was written in Latin) was published by Cooke in the year 1657 under the titl^e of ‘‘ Select Observations of English Bodies; or. Cures both Empiricall and Historical! performed upon very Eminent Persons in Desperate Diseases. First written in Latin by Mr. John Hall, physician, living at Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire, where he was very famous, as also in the countries adjacent, as appears by these Observations drawn out of severall hundreds of his choicest.” ^ 1 Stratford-on-Avon, from the Earliest Times to the Death of Shakespeare. By Sidney Lee. With forty-five illustrations by Edward Hull. London : Seeley & Co. 1890. 2 In the Life of Shakespeare recently published, Mr. Lee refers (in a footnote) to Dr. Hall’s “Select Observations;” he has thus probably found out his error,