This is the first complete edition and English translation of John Hallâs Little Book of Cures, a fascinating medical casebook composed in Latin around 1634â5. John Hall (1575â1635) was Shakespeareâs son-in-law (Hall married Susanna Shakespeare in 1607), and based his medical practice in Stratford-upon-Avon. Readers have never before had access to a complete English translation of John Hallâs casebook, which contains fascinating details about his treatment of patients in and around Stratford. Until Wellsâs 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). Cookeâs edition significantly misrepresents Hall by abridging his manuscript (Cooke removed Hallâs conversations with his patients), by errors of translation, and by combining Hallâs work with examples from Cookeâs own medical practice.
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