Excerpt from Shakespeare as a Physician: Comprising 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 The idea even of making an entire volume based upon some Single line of thought found in Shakespeare's writings is not new, - as a work embracing Shakespeare's Legal knowledge was written by Lord Campbell, and published in England some years ago; and it is said, that even now, there are as many as twenty books in some way connected with the great dramatist, issued yearly from the British press. If in the vastness of this literature there has not at some time in the past appeared a work embodying Shakespeare's Medical knowledge, it is a little strange, - though of the existence Of such a work the present writer has no knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.