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"I Know My Physic Will Work with Him"

Alternative title
Elizabethan Medicine
Synopsis
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. If you were ill in Shakespeare’s time you might be told to drink liquid gold or syrup of violets. You might undergo a violent purgation to take the bad humours out of your body. They might draw blood from your ankle or your arm. But while these treatments seem laughable today, elements of the thinking they were based on have come all the way down to us in the 21st century. That thinking, though it might seem unrelated to Shakespeare’s stories, is surprisingly present in his writing. Neva Grant interviews Gail Kern Paster and Barbara Traister about medicine in the era when Shakespeare was writing.
Series
Shakespeare Unlimited
Language
English
Country
United States
Medium
Audio
Notes
Podcast: http://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited-episode-55 (accessed 8/2016).
Subjects
Drama; Medical sciences
Keywords
history of the 16th century; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); medicine

Online availability

URI
http://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited-episode-55

Credits

Producer
Richard Paul
Contributor
Barbara Traister; Gail Kern Paster; Neva Grant

Production Company

Name

R.L. Paul Productions

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