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- From: wisp@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Wisp)
- Subject: Napoleon snuffed (was Re: Legal language)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.101409.2769@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:14:09 GMT
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- In article <8uD3VB5w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
-
- [stuff about the Bible and lethal doctors...]
-
- >But wasn't it shown that Napoleon was in fact murdered (by arsenic)
- >posioning by his second in command?
- >
-
- Not quite. It seems likely that he died of a gastric/duodenal ulcer (may or
- may not have been cancer), and that the arsenic poisoning he was suffering
- from was as a result of a mould growing on the wallpaper in his house.
- (Honestly: conditions were right for it, and the mould excretes the arsenic
- as some gas or other. The dye in question was some bright green thingy that
- was full of arsenic...)
-
- The Wisp. [a *very* lethal doctor...]
-