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Reviews, 
SHAKESPEARE AS A PHYSICIAN: Comprising every word which in 
any way relates to Medicine, Surgery, or Obstetrics, found in the 
Complete Works of that writer, with Criticisms and Comparisons 
of the same with the Medical Thoughts of to-day. 8 vo., pp. 226. 
St. Louis: J. H. Chambers & Co. 
The author truly and faithfully presents every line and pre- 
cept found in Shakespeare’s writings that bears in any way upon 
the science of medicine. 
It is unaccountable how a man, not a physician, could have 
such correct notions of diseases. It must be as the author states 
that ‘““Shakespeare learned few things; he knew them zntuz- 
tively.” 
The author shows very clearly, by comparing the views ex- 
pressed by Shakespeare with those held at the present time, that 
the expressions of Shakespeare as they relate to medicine are 
nearly always correct. 
It is a book that will have a ready sale, for one copy sold 
will be the cause of selling a dozen others. It isa long time 
since a book has been offered to the medical profession that so 
combines the unique and profitable. 
SEXUAL NEURASTHENIA (nervous exhaustion) its hygiene, causes, 
symptoms and treatment, with a chapter on diet for the nervous. 
By George M. Beard, A. M., M. D., ete. Edited by A. D. Rock- 
well, A. M., M. D., ete., New York: E. B. Treat, 1884. Pp. 270. 
Price $2.09. 
This work is published from a posthumous manuscript of the 
author, arranged and edited by his former associate, Dr. Rock- 
well, 
Dr. Beard was one of the keenest of observers, and anything 
that ever came from his pen could be read by all physicians with 
profit. 
Dr. Beard paid a great deal of attention to the subject of 
nervous exhaustion, and he was well prepared to present such a 
work as this. 
It treats of a subject but little understood by the general 
practitioner, while the free use of clinical cases aids very much 
