John Hall, Master of Physicke: A Casebook from Shakespeare`s Stratford, Edmonson Paul, Wells Greg

Until Wellss 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). Cookes edition significantly misrepresents Hall by abridging his manuscript (Cooke removed Halls conversations with his patients), by errors of translation, and by combining Halls work with examples from Cookes own medical practice. Wellss work is the first complete, accurate, and authoritative edition of Halls casebook. It especially reveals Halls compassion for his patients, his feelings of joy when they made a recovery, and his religious faith in relation to his medical skills.