Saturday, June 18, 2011

Thomas de Quincey was addicted to Laudanum – I was researching alkaloids…

Laudanosine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

couldn’t this be Thomas De Quinney who was married to Shakespeare’s daughter or granddaughter?

Most importantly, this means possibly that De Quinney was experiencing seizures from doses of arsenic during the plague as well as many other persons of the time.

So Thomas de Quincey wouldn’t be having seizures literally but experiencing them psychically.  Would this still excite his own brain?   Illnesses that have gone untreated or were treated but became part of the Doctor’s psyche have often manifested themselves in the lives of those possessed of those minds, so it seems clear to me that one could suffer serious harm if untreated physically and even psychically.

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