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Volume 6
History of ENT – Murder Most Foul, Strange and Unnatural
by John Riddington Young, TD and bar, MPhil, FRCS, DLO
The assassination in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is perpetrated by the ingenious method of pouring poison into the old King’s ear. Few doctors are not asked, ‘is it possible to kill anybody by pouring poison in their ear?’