Apothecary

Agatha Christie is the most widely spread author in history with over two billion copies of her books sold and has been translated into forty-five different languages since 1920. Influenced by authors of her time and the newly founded mystery genre she is founder of the murder mystery (Bunsen). Agatha Christie was influenced by many different aspects of her life including family, work, and where she lived. In Christie’s early childhood she developed relationships with her imaginary friends.…

Water, food and shelter are some essential things that humans need to live. Without these things we wouldn’t be able to live for very long because they are basic needs and something that keeps us functioning and alive just like communication for society and its people in Romeo and Juliet. No matter where in the play whether it be in the starting, middle or end, when there was a failure in communication someone died because in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet love did not fail, communication did.…

What is Styrofoam? Styrofoam is a brand of closed-cell extruded polystyrene foam currently created for thermal insulation and craft applications. Dow Chemical Company retained and produced the Styrofoam. Through petroleum product known as styrene, Styrofoam was created. The styrene is amended into a clear molten mass of polystyrene through a complex chemical process known as polymerization. It would become a hard plastic if it were left to cool. Disposable eating utensils are created from this…

Perhaps, the most intriguing aspect, in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, is the role that fate plays in the final outcome of the lovers. This is prominent in the following: when Romeo meets Juliet, when Tybalt and Mercutio die and Romeo is banished and finally, when Friar Laurence’s letter about Juliet fails to reach Romeo. All of these events, as well as many others are connected. Unfortunately for Romeo and Juliet, this theme is so dominant that it leads to their ultimate demise. To…

The Hippocratic Corpus is a school of thought created by Hippocrates that was taught to medical students (Week One Lecture). This way of thinking was so highly regarded that a temple was built to honor it and to teach future medical professionals. The Asklepieion was “built in 357 BC in Kos” and can be compared to a hospital (Week One Slides). Adherents to the Hippocratic Corpus approached the diagnosis and treatment of the ill with regards to the patient as an individual. Rather than lump the…

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a tragedy by William Shakespeare following the love story of two star-crossed lovers. In Verona, there is an ongoing feud between the families of Capulet and Montague. After a fight breaks out in town between the two families, the Prince warns that anyone who disturbs the peace again will be sentenced to death. Lord Capulet wants his daughter, Juliet, to marry a man named Paris once she is a few years older. Later that night, Juliet meets Romeo from…

Women strived for a long stretch of freedom, when society weighed women down. Women were easily misjudged throughout the middle ages, but proved that women were powerful, and more than capable of doing equal amount of work as the men. The government made and changed all important decisions, but in the middle ages, the women were the people that changed the government. In order for women to get to where they needed to be, women had to go through obstacles that were behind the scenes.Women changed…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze and explain Rhazes, the renowned Islamic physician’s impacts on medicine, and his accomplishment’s. Abu Bakr Mohhmad Ibn Zakariya Razi also know as “Rhazes”, was born in the Ancient city of Rayy located near Tehran, Iran as a Persian. The city of Rayy, which was located on the Great Silk Road, was a series of trade routes that were central to interaction between the West and East. This Road connected traders, merchants, pilgrims, monks, soldiers…

For another, contrary to those historians who have argued that state regulations, such as the Apothecaries Act of 1815 and the Medical Act of 1858, were a means to reinforce the boundaries between quackery and the kind of professional medical standards and ethics that held advertising and pecuniary ventures by doctors as “unprofessional and unseemly””(Cooter, Pg. 354). This climate of the times gives those who were in the psychological profession the ethical guide lines to help them legitimize…

Madness, craziness, insanity—all are terms derived from the human psychosis of unstable mental health. Through this mental instability, one can lose sight of proper reasoning and plunge themselves into a pseudo-reality of delusions and hallucinations that can result in the tragedy of not only self-deterioration, but have a stark impact on the people around you. However, this madness does not just manifest out of thin air, it evolves from deeper rooted problems. In William Shakespeare’s King Lear…