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This is the first complete edition and English translation of John
Hall's Little Book of Cures, a fascinating medical casebook
composed in Latin around 1634-5. John Hall (1575-1635) was
Shakespeare's son-in-law (Hall married Susanna Shakespeare in
1607), and based his medical practice in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Readers have never before had access to a complete English
translation of John Hall's casebook, which contains fascinating
details about his treatment of patients in and around Stratford.
Until Wells's edition, our knowledge of Hall and his practice has
had to rely only on a partial, seventeenth-century edition
(produced by James Cooke in 1657 and 1679, and re-printed with
annotation by Joan Lane as recently as 1996). Cooke's edition
significantly misrepresents Hall by abridging his manuscript (Cooke
removed Hall's conversations with his patients), by errors of
translation, and by combining Hall's work with examples from
Cooke's own medical practice. -- .
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