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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    well taught at school. With a heart that had once been warmed by sitting at good men's feasts, and an intellect once lighted by the Promethean flame of knowledge, he could then go forth into the world, and meet the ups and downs of life in no sullen spirit. No matter what his struggles may have been while yet a young man; if he got through with honor and health untouched, his early trials would but add to the enjoyment of life in after years. But if at setting out he chanced to be a little wild, he would all the more likely be made acquainted with a great variety of strange people, and get a near view of their characters and habits. If a young man has strength to keep himself erect until the lapse of time brings prosperity, he^ will in his mature years show something very different and opposite to that insipidity so often seen in those who are born to wealth and hedged about with exclusiveness. All men who achieve their own greatness have, in the out- set of their career, spent a few years in threading the lanes and by-ways of life, before