...these follies
are within you and shine through you like the water in an urinal, that not an eye that sees you but is a physician to comment
on your malady.
(The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act 2. Scene 1.)
…I Do come with words as medicinal as true,
Honest as either, to purge him of that humour
That
presses him from sleep.
(The Winter’s Tale. Act 2. Scene 3)
Not poppy,
nor mandragora,
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
Which thou owedst yesterday.
(Othello. Act 3.
Scene 3.)
Falstaff
What
disease hast thou?
Bullcalf: A whoreson cold, sir, a cough, sir.
(King Henry IV, part II 3.2)
Portia: Have
by some surgeon, Shylock,
on your charge, to stop his wounds,
lest he do bleed to death.
(The Merchant of Venice 4.1.254-5)
The display explores the philosophy
and beliefs surrounding medicine and
surgery in Shakespeare's time, with reference
to his plays.
It
examines:
-How illnesses were diagnosed and treated
-The
diseases and illnesses that plagued Elizabethan
world
-How
surgical procedures were carried out
-It comes with
a full display of replica medical and surgical equipment from the period.
