^∗ “Shakspere's Medical Knowledge.” By Dr. Bucknill, 1860, p. 274.Google Scholar

^∗ An illustration taken nt random from Trousseau's Chapter on Epilepsy (Clinical Medicine, Vol. i), will show that Shakspere's idea of epilepsy being primarily produced, and subsequently re-induced by painful emotions, was, to say the least of it, a happy conception, which has its connter-parfc in clinical facts. I shall classify Trousseau's comments on a case to show the close resemblance of its features to those of the conception of Shakspere. Primary Causation.$One night the patient had been suddenly awakened and frightened by terrible shrieks from his wife, and a few days afterwards he had his first attack. The attacks recurred at regular intervals, and were brought on by the slightest painful emotion.Google Scholar

The features of a seizure were quivering of the legs, delirium, convulsions and unconsciousness. He looked exactly tike a delirious maniac. The fits lasted about twenty minutes, and without any transition the patient became calm. The words which I have italicised have their counterpart in lago's description of Othello's state, uiid in the words of Olhdlu himself.Google Scholar

^∗ Ulrici, Shakspere's Dramatic Art, Vol. I.Google Scholar