Wednesday 21 March 2012

Emedinews:Insights on Medicolegal issues: The greatest unsolved murder mysteries of all time was " How was Napoleon murdered"?



We know for a certainty where and when the famous French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte died: in exile on the island of St. Helena on May 5, 1821. And we know that he had been suffering a bladder infection for years and was prone to fainting. The official cause of death was listed as cancerous stomach ulcer? Yet nearly two century later opinion remains wildly split on what killed Napoleon. In 2001, the Strasbourg Forensic Institute examined strands of Napoleon hairs and showed that Napoleon had been exposed to major doses of arsenic and that raised a question, Was Napoleon assassinated? Will we ever know?

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