Renaissance Treatment – Chemical Cures

• Medical chemistry is all the rage

  these days, scientists are working

  on chemical cures instead of

  bleeding and herbs!
• The College of

  Physicians suggested

  over 122 chemicals to

  treat 2,140 illnesses.
• Mercury and antimony was

  used to purge illness and treat

  smallpox, but they didn’t

  understand it was poisonous!
• Alchemy, or

  ‘medical chemistry’

  had an impact on

  treatment. Inspired

  by Paracelsus,

  medical chemists

  experimented with

  metals to cure

  illness.