"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind". - (Act I, Scene I).
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
You meet there beautifully furnished Jacobean home of
Shakespeare’s daughter Susanna and her husband, Dr John Hall.
The
main part of this fine timbered property was built in 1613. For most of its
history, it has been the home of prosperous, often professional people and in
the mid-19th century it served as a small school. The Shakespeare
Birthplace Trust purchased Hall’s Croft in 1949 and, after substantial repairs
and alterations, opened it to the public in 1951.
John
Hall was a physician of some renown and his case notes, published after his
death in 1657, were a popular textbook for other doctors for many years. Dr
Hall was a compassionate and diligent physician, treating both rich and poor,
Catholic and Protestant patients alike. While some physicians practised
astronomy or blood-letting, John Hall’s preference was for treatments made from
plants, herbs, animal extracts, gemstones and rocks.
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