. Annals of medical history. books may not suffice to save aman from becoming a poor mean-spiriteddevil, without a spark of fine professionalfeeling and witiiout a thought above sordidissues of the day. Professional characteris helped, he says, by contemplation of thelives of the great and good of the past, andin no way more than in the touch divine ofnoble natures gone. Some of that divine touch I have brought here to-night in a gift to the Society of aportrait of Sir William Osier, Bart., as alsoof two volumes of the Annals of MedicalHistory. These books will be a start alongthe road he poin
. Annals of medical history. books may not suffice to save aman from becoming a poor mean-spiriteddevil, without a spark of fine professionalfeeling and witiiout a thought above sordidissues of the day. Professional characteris helped, he says, by contemplation of thelives of the great and good of the past, andin no way more than in the touch divine ofnoble natures gone. Some of that divine touch I have brought here to-night in a gift to the Society of aportrait of Sir William Osier, Bart., as alsoof two volumes of the Annals of MedicalHistory. These books will be a start alongthe road he pointed out to culture, to thosefiner and better things in our daily contactone with another and with the world. Thatis the society to aspire to, the society ofbooks, where in quiet solitude we too willlearn to commune with the great physiciansof the past. In the lives of Osier and of themedical ancients we will realize and see, asperhaps in no other way, that the dignityof our work must ever make it a profession,never a Coat of arms appearing in Portas Delia Fisonomia deli huomo, libri sei. Gio. Giac. Carlino & Const. Vitale for Salvatore Scarano, Naples, 1610. SHAKSPERE AND THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINEBy LEMUEL MATTHEWS GRIFFITHS, , BRISTOL, ENGLAND IT has been claimed for Shakspere thatin some branches of medical science heshowed a knowledge far in advance ofmembers of the profession. On theother hand, it has been asserted that heknew no more than any old woman of theperiod could have told him. It was my pur-pose to collect the passages referring, directlyor indirectly, to medical science or practice,and thus try to find where the truth liesbetween these conflicting statements; for athird hypothesis—that he may, for the medi-cal allusions, have consulted some practi-tioner of the healing art—can be dismissedat once, as the references are too numerousand too incidental for such a theory to betaken into consideration. But when I had partly put this intentioni
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