Shakespeare as a physicianComprising every word which in any way relates to medicine, surgery or obstetrics, found in the complete works of that writer, with criticisms and comparison of the same with the medical thoughts of to-day . ed with buckles and twelve holes;he took up his belt one hole each day, and at the end oftwo weeks was as sprightly as the buck of his native woods. The liver was, by the ancients, supposed to be the seat of theaffections, and in this fact we have an explanation of Btrons (notB^/rons) talking of—this is the liver vein, after having readsome lines of erotic poetry;
Shakespeare as a physicianComprising every word which in any way relates to medicine, surgery or obstetrics, found in the complete works of that writer, with criticisms and comparison of the same with the medical thoughts of to-day . ed with buckles and twelve holes;he took up his belt one hole each day, and at the end oftwo weeks was as sprightly as the buck of his native woods. The liver was, by the ancients, supposed to be the seat of theaffections, and in this fact we have an explanation of Btrons (notB^/rons) talking of—this is the liver vein, after having readsome lines of erotic poetry; the line is found in Loves LaborLost. Gratiano, in The Merchant of Venice, puts matters in a sen-sible shape, thus: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,and let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool withmortifying groans. Why should a man whose blood is warm within, ORGANOLOGY. 179 sit like his grand-sire cut in alabaster? sleep when he wakes, andcreep into the jaundice by being peevish? Here we have an honorable and ancient precedent for hobnailliver, and he who chooses to follow the example can do so withoutthe fear of being charged with a design to innovate upon the oldand well established The woodman who prepared himself with a leathern belt. In regard to a mans creeping into jaundice through peevish-ness —the effect is mistaken for the cause; old Shake got hiscart before the horse that once. He had doubtless let his liverheat with wine on that occasion. This same idea as to the effectsof excessive alcoholic stimulation upon the liver is seen also inAntony and Cleopatra, A. i., S. ii. ; and the confounding ofcause and effect named above is corrected in a line in Troilus andCressida, when he says what grief hath set the jaundice onyour cheeks? The idea—erroneous as it is, and though antiquated as the ever- 180 SHAKESPEARE AS A PHYSICIAN. lasting hills,—which makes the liver the seat of love and pusil-lanimity, finds many places to cro
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