Romeo and the Apothecary

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John Keats, Apothecary and Poet

that she gave to him would never wither, '' sheltered and shut in a nook of rhyme from the reaper man and his reaper Time." Keats also, despite his humility, had this prescience of immortality: "I think," he said, "I shall be among the English poets after my death." He knew that Time's fell hand would touch him only lightly. He is, above others, the Poet of Beauty?of Beauty in Nature, in the he...

Romeo and Juliets: a Modern Workplace Tragedy

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet starts out as a classic love story: boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy and girl get married. Of course, it turns into a tragedy when they realize that their relationship is destined to fail. Surprisingly, many offices in corporate America follow a similar-though less morbid--trend. A 2005 survey revealed that 58% of employees had dated someone at wor...

The apothecary as man of science

INTRODUCTION The development and use of rational scientific methods was well established by the mid-seventeenth century. The collection of data and the systematic arrangement of ideas, the application of mathematics and sound reasoning, and, above all, the experimental testing of hypotheses, advocated by men of the calibre of Johan Kepler (1571-1630), Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Francis Bacon ...

John Crane (1571--1652); the Cambridge apothecary and philanthropist.

JOHN CRANE lived in Cambridge for most of his life and died there, a wealthy man, on 26 May 1652 at the age of eighty-one. His name has been kept alive to the present day in Cambridge University by his Charity for paying the medical expenses of poor, sick scholars. The towns of Wisbech, Cambridge, King's Lynn, and Ipswich also received benefactions in his will for setting up young men in busine...