SHAKESPEARE'S MEDICINE.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 42, 7 January 1921, Page 4

SHAKESPEARE'S MEDICINE.

The discov,ery of some ancient medicine phials in what was ,onee Shakespeare's garden at New Piace, Stratford-on-Avon, serves to conjure up a vivid picture of the last illness of the world's greatest dramatist. The phials were found by workmen engaged in the trenching operations in connection with the restoration of the great bard's garden. The phials bear the impress of old age? and, moreover, were found in soil wherein were other articles of the Tudor and early Jacobean periods, showing that they found their way there just about the time of Shakespeare's death. And as the very spot where they were found was within easy throwing distance from the window of this house there is but little stretch of imagination required to picture Doctor Hall, Shakespeare's son-in-law, who attended the latter in his last illness, summarily hurling through the win. dow such of the tiny bottles as happened to break during use at the sickbed. Doctor Hall was the husband of Shakespeare's eldest daughter, Elizabeth. — "Philadelphia Public Ledger."