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Who killed the Imperor
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Ben Weider, founder of the International
Napoleonic Society - Napaleon was poisoned with arsenic, a deadly chemical
murder mystery,1821,British
island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean
Napoleon Bonaparte,emperor of France—is held prisoner after losing
his final battle at Waterloo in 1815
February
1821,Napoleon’s health.dies on 51 age.
Historians, toxicologists,3
doctors, amateur
investigators-have considered the question
of how and why Napoleon died
hair analysis done by Pascal Kintz, a French
toxicologist at the Legal Medicine Institute of
Strasbourg -it contained arsenic
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Steven Karch, an American heart disease expertwas killed by his own doctors
usual symptoms associated
with arsenic poisoning, such as bleeding inside the heart
David Jones, an immunologist5 at the University of Newcastle in England,walls at Longwood House
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According to Jones,
conditions on the hot and humid island caused the arsenic to be released
into the air.
Historian Jean Tulard believesthat cancer and ulcers, as reported by doctors
who examined the body
to Karch’s
theory-a massive
amount of mercurous chloride—a chemical once given to patients with
heart disease.
In his estimation, the hair
that was tested may not even have been Napoleon’s
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rench historian
and doctor Jean-François Lemaire “We are now in the world
of entertainment,” he says. It seems unlikely that new facts will settle the
issue—people just enjoy the mystery too much.