Taste of medicine

Idiot and the poppy

Once upon at time in a far away land there was this scragglie street urchin who was so Hungry but he had not have a coin on him. Soon the hunger was driving this young man crazy that he ran and ate a lot of poppies thinking they were harmless. But this idiot didn't know what was going to happen to him.

Soon he went back to town, the demon flower did not affect him yet until he was in the middle of the town. Remember this was in antiquity so the people didn't know what to do.

The young man felt euphoric high and was talking about philosophy and was relaxed. He didn't want to eat and oddly enough he felt no pain. So this youngster was doing stupid stunts not knowing that he hurt himself.

Now this is where it gets interesting... he ended up seeing things that weren't there and not real voices. With these hallucinations the poor guy ended up ranting and raving- scaring the town folk. Soon the guy died of his poppy lunch but someone was recording the problem and came up with ideas for the next incident should it happen. Perplexed the people wanted to know more. They looked into the mind and body to see how they work. This continues for eons until the concepts of medicine, psychology and psychiatry came about. The street urchin open to us a new and braver world.