Author : Jesse Portman Chesney
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230322902
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (229 download)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare As a Physician; Comprising Every Word Which in Any Way Relates to Medicine, Surgery Or Obstetrics, Found in the Complete Works of That Wri by : Jesse Portman Chesney
Download or read book Shakespeare As a Physician; Comprising Every Word Which in Any Way Relates to Medicine, Surgery Or Obstetrics, Found in the Complete Works of That Wri written by Jesse Portman Chesney and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty; make thick my blood stop up th' access and passage to remorse; that no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between th* effect and it. Come to my woman's breasts, and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, wherever in your sightless sub stances you wait on nature's mischief. Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes, nor heaven peep through the blankness of the dark to cry, "Hold, hold!" Of this kind of cases we find ample records. I will quote from Deboismont: "Dom. Duhaget was of a good family in Gascony: he had been a captain in the infantry for twenty years; I never knew any one possessing any more amiability or piety. We had," he related, "a friar at, where I was before I came to Pierre Ch&tel, of a melancholy disposition and a gloomy character, who was known to be a somnambulist. Sometimes, during the paroxysms, he would leave his cell, and re-enter it alone; at others, he would lose himself, and have to be brought back. His case had been treated, and as the returns were very rare, it had ceased to attract attention. One night, I was sitting up beyond my usual hour for retiring. I was engaged in looking over some papers in my desk, when I heard the door open, aud saw the friar enter, in a complete state of somnambulism. His eyes were open, but fixed (How truthfully Shakespeare notes this fact in the case of Lady M.); he had on only the garments in which he slept, and held a large knife in his hand. He went straight to my bed; appeared to satisfy himself by feeling, that I was really there; after which he struck...
