...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.)

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.