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

Romeo and Juliet Medicines Used In The Renaissance     Romeo and Juliet both killed themselves with poison, although it wasnot synthetic drugs. The poison had to be as powerful, around scholars believethat it was hemlock that sealed the fate of the two start crossed love, otherare skeptical, but we will probably never sock.     The methods and medicines used in Renaissance and Medieval multiplication 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 "evil" or the devil, people would literallyopen up a persons skull and then rub down the brain.     Wizards (alchemist) would mix potions, trying to find eternal life , andcures to everything. For years these alchemis ts 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 etc.     Heres a poem just about something that happen during the RenaissanceRing around the rosies,A pocket full of posies,Ashes, ashesWe all fall down.     For hundreds of years children sang this song not knowing the painful subject matter behind it.     Song was written about the Bubonic Plague. Horrible living conditionsin the cities and town helped the "Black Plague" spread killing thousands andgreatly lowered the population 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 then get into the garbage and therats woul d then spread the plague rapidly and in one great jounce swept acrossthe country side. No one was safe, but important religious officials like thearch bishop of France were surrounding in fire for months.     Back to the meaning of the poem The rosies refer to rosary beads to