Romeo And Juliet: Medicines Used In The Renaissance :: essays research papers

Romeo and Juliet Medicines Used In The renascence     Romeo and Juliet both killed themselves with poison, although it was non synthetic drugs. The poison had to be as powerful, some scholars believethat it was hemlock that sealed the fate of the two start crossed love, other be skeptical, but we will probably never know.     The methods and medicines used in Renaissance and Medieval time werevery primitive compared to todays standards. medical concepts were magical anddemoniacal. With no anesthetics, no knowledge of how the human body and itsfunctions people many times would do anything they thought would help, notnecessarily what worked.     They to cure people from " flagitious" or the devil, people would literallyopen up a persons skull and and so(prenominal) massage the brain.     Wizards (alchemist) would mix potions, trying to find eternal life , andcures to everything. For eld these alchemists tried to find a way to changelead into gold, they as you probably know never suceed.     Alchemists as crazy as they whitethorn seem to us were in reality the firstchemists discovering metals and mixing them etcetera     Heres a poem about something that happen during the RenaissanceRing or so the rosies,A pocket full of posies,Ashes, ashesWe all fall down.     For hundreds of years children interpret this song not knowing the horriblemeaning behind it.      variant was written about the Bubonic Plague. Horrible living conditionsin the cities and townsfolk helped the "Black Plague" spread killing thousands andgreatly lowered the macrocosm of the world. It would cause glands to swell andcaused a horrible oder in its victims.     There was not really a sanitation system in Elizabethan England droolwas left in the street for days, rats would then get into the ga rbage and therats would then spread the plague rapidly and in one great rock swept acrossthe country side. No one was safe, but primal religious officials like thearch bishop of France were surrounding in fire for months.      fend for to the meaning of the poem The rosies refer to rosary beads to