In old plays and stories, such as Romeo and Juliet, poisons are depicted as being fairly fast acting.
Would they really have had access to such poison, or was it simply creative license? What would a realistic depiction of a poison of that era be?
In old plays and stories, such as Romeo and Juliet, poisons are depicted as being fairly fast acting.
Would they really have had access to such poison, or was it simply creative license? What would a realistic depiction of a poison of that era be?
the slow moving poison was a weapon, meaning it was slow and easy to hide from.
quick acting poisons have been known but even in the era before enlightened thought, lots of knowledge was aware of them. they just did understand the why
we know now, most of those quick poisons would be so far out of the bodies pH that it would shock your system instantly
today we’d be able to revive someone that might have taken something like that but back then, if it doesn’t look like your breathing and they couldn’t hear your heart… you dead