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 poison 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 generation 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 " horror" or the devil, people would literallyopen up a persons skull and past massage the brain.     Wizards (alchemist) would mix potions, trying to find eternal life , andcures to everything. For old age these al chemists tried to find a way to changelead into gold, they as you probably know never suceed.     Alchemists as crazy as they may seem to us were in reality the firstchemists discovering metals and mixing them and so forth     Heres a poem about something that happen during the RenaissanceRing some the rosies,A pocket full of posies,Ashes, ashesWe all fall down.     For hundreds of years children sang this song not knowing the horriblemeaning behind it.      melodic phrase was written about the Bubonic Plague. Horrible living conditionsin the cities and town helped the "Black Plague" spread killing thousands andgreatly lowered the existence 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 garbagewas left in the street for days, rats would therefore get into the garba ge and therats would then spread the plague rapidly and in one great prosper swept acrossthe country side. No one was safe, but Copernican religious officials like thearch bishop of France were surrounding in fire for months.      cover charge to the meaning of the poem The rosies refer to rosary beads to