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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    Armado. ; and with his royal finger, thus, dally with my excrement, with my mustachio : (Act v. Sc. 1.) Shakspeare uses the word excrement, for the hair in some four or five other places, which will be quoted in their order. There must be many well-informed persons outside of the profession who do not know that the hair is reckoned an excrementitious substance. tenant of Ifcma. Oratiano. ? and creep into the jaundice By heing peevish ? (Act i. Sc. 1.) An attack of jaundice is perhaps oftener brought on by mental anxiety and labor, than by any other cause. Bcusanio. And these assume but valour's excre- ment, To render them redoubted. (Act in. Sc. 2.) Shylock. Some men there are love not a gaping Pig* Some, that are mad, if they behold a cat; And others, when the bag-pipe sings i' the nose, Cannot contain their urine; For affection,