{"id":6478,"date":"2017-05-04T21:39:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T21:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=7148"},"modified":"2017-05-04T21:39:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T21:39:30","slug":"shakespeare-and-medicine-hardin-library-for-the-health-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2017\/05\/04\/shakespeare-and-medicine-hardin-library-for-the-health-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare and Medicine @Hardin Library for the Health Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/05\/375px-Shakespeare-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"portrait of Shakespeare\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/05\/375px-Shakespeare-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/05\/375px-Shakespeare-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/05\/375px-Shakespeare-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hardin Library is examining medicine through the eyes of William Shakespeare this month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7154\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7154 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/05\/375px-Shakespeare-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"portrait of Shakespeare\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/05\/375px-Shakespeare-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/05\/375px-Shakespeare.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shakespeare, perhaps by John Taylor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Currently on display on Hardin\u2019s 3rd floor is the <strong>National Library of Medicine traveling exhibit<\/strong>, <em>\u201cAnd There\u2019s the Humor of It:\u201d Shakespeare and the Four Humors<\/em>.\u00a0 In 16th century England, four bodily humors were thought to influence physical and mental health. Four temperaments \u2013 sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic \u2013 were equated with the four humors \u2013 blood, bile (or yellow bile), melancholy (or black bile), and blood. The exhibit explores the four humors as they appear in Shakespeare\u2019s <em>Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice<\/em>, and <em>The Taming of the Shrew<\/em>. More information on the exhibit can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/exhibition\/shakespeare\/\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"By Tom Lemmens (File:4 body fluids.PNG) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AHumorism.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/a1\/Humorism.svg\/256px-Humorism.svg.png\" alt=\"Humorism\" width=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7151\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7151 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/05\/Kirilka-Stavrena-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"picture of Kirilka Stavrena\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/05\/Kirilka-Stavrena-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/05\/Kirilka-Stavrena-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/05\/Kirilka-Stavrena-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Kirilka Stavrena, Professor of English, Cornell College<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>A presentation exploring the humors<\/strong>, <em>Attracted to Ill Humors, or What Hope for Shakespeare\u2019s Cachexic Couples?,<\/em> will be hosted by the History of Medicine Society on <strong>May 18th, at 5:30 pm in MERF Room 2117<\/strong>. Kirilka Stavrena, Professor of English at Cornell College, will explore the relationships of Hamlet and Ophelia from <em>Hamlet<\/em> and Katherina and Petruchio from <em>The Taming of the Shrew<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also on display on Hardin\u2019s 3rd floor is an <strong>exhibit highlighting books from Shakespeare\u2019s era<\/strong> that can be found in the John Martin Rare Book Room. <em>Early Modern England: Medicine, Shakespeare, and Books<\/em> features examples of common medical beliefs of the time, including the humors, herbals, and \u201cmonsters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A timeline of medical history shows that the 1555 2nd edition of Vesalius\u2019s <em>De humani corporis fabrica<\/em> was published just nine years before Shakespeare\u2019s birth, and that Harvey\u2019s discovery of blood circulation occurred in 1628, after Shakespeare\u2019s death in 1616. The exhibit also describes doctors found in Shakespeare\u2019s plays and scientists who were his contemporaries. This exhibit was prepared by John Martin Rare Book Room Curator Donna Hirst, with assistance by Rare Book Room student assistant Caroline Hogan.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to read more about Shakespeare and the humors, the National Library of Medicine\u2019s History of Medicine Division has posted a list of readings at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/exhibition\/shakespeare\/education\/additionalresources\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/exhibition\/shakespeare\/education\/additionalresources\/index.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/05\/375px-Shakespeare-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"portrait of Shakespeare\">Hardin Library is examining medicine through the eyes of William Shakespeare this month. 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