Ergot

of Salem’s residence by Charles W. Upham show a particular pattern between the accusers and the accused, implicating that neighborhood quarrels could have indeed played at least a minor role in these witchcraft accusations. Another point which Boyer and Nissenbaum address is witchcraft and factionalism. Claiming that Salem was full of settlers whose frustrations had festered over the years, in which they were suspicious of one another and exploding with jealousy. These power struggles and…

Escaping Salem, as the title states, recounts the events surrounding witch trials outside of the infamous Salem, Massachusetts. Godbeer takes us to the same time period, but a different location Stamford, Connecticut, where a witch hunt is taking place. This book tells us how this witch hunt “took a very different course from the panic in Massachusetts” (Godbeer 7). In his book, Godbeer presents the readers with a sense of how witchcraft was understood and dealt with in the seventeenth century…

when Abigail Williams and Elizabeth “Betty” Parris experienced violent and strange fits in 1692 in the town of Salem, Massachusetts. According to more recent scientific studies, the cause of these unholy symptoms were most likely caused by the fungus ergot. Due to the widespread worship of Puritanism at the time, this behavior was thought to be caused by devilish witchcraft. Tituba, Reverend Samuel Parris’s slave, was accused of bewitching the girls. The two girls also claimed that Sarah Good…

According to Blumberg, the Salem of witch trials it was a really bad part of the United State. There were people who didn’t understanding why they were getting accused. This happed during the 1692 and 1693 in Massachusetts this really happed during this time. The main parts that started atnd fueled the trials were politics, religion, family, feuds, economics, and the imaginations and fears of people (Sutter). The seeds of the hysteria are afflicted Salem village, Massachusetts was sown on…

Cannas et al. (2006) report on a 51-year old male PD patient, who began to show signs of PD at the age of 44. Two years later, the patient began to show a mild motor disability and was diagnosed with PD. He was then put on Peroglide, a dopamine agonist ergot derivative, which is commonly used to treat PD. At the time, he was not taking any other form of medication. After the introduction of this new medication, his wife reported an increase in libido, but there was no public activity. Three…

He was trying to synthesize a chemical compound from ergot that would stimulate the respiratory and circulatory system. The experiment failed to produce the results he was hoping to achieve and was discarded and forgotten. A few years later on April 16 in the year 1943, Hoffman once again tried to synthesize…

fell into trances. They accused others of signing a compact with the devil to torment them in order to save their own skin. Many historians believe their, “Convulsions, hallucinations, and their falling into trances were from a fungal growth called ergot” (Thompson and Poole. These trances put many innocent men and mostly women to their deaths. The trials did not end until…

In 1692, the town of Salem in the Massachusetts saw the rise of paranoia to power and the degradation of social order the likes of which has never been seen in American History. An entire community of people swept up in a sudden outbreak of elaborate scheming, finger-pointing, and witchcraft that ended in tragedy. Was it down the fault of Puritanism, economic conspiracy within Salem, or a group of young girls too afraid of getting caught in a lie to reveal the truth? As anything in history, the…

Probably for your whole life you have been taught that drugs are awful for your health they can destroy your brain and your body, which is true for most drugs and even some prescription drugs. But what if i were to tell you that some of these so called dangerous drugs are not as dangerous as you have been told but they also can have psychological benefits. The main hallucinogens i will be talking about include Psilocybin mushrooms, LSD-25. Hallucinogenic drugs have psychological benefits in…

A horse is a horse, of course, of course, from the introduction to the 1960s show Mr. Ed. Sounds pretty simple, as long as you know what a horse is. Now everyone typically knows what a horse looks like, but what truly makes a horse a horse? More specifically what makes something not a horse? First let 's answer the question what makes a horse a horse in scientific terms. “The horse family today is quite small, consisting only of seven living species, which include donkeys and zebras. The closest…