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Death at the National Hotel! (Conspiracy? Assassination? Serial Killer? Disease?)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

CHAPTER

What Do You Think About Arsenic?

Buchanan and his companions all got sick. His doctor's first thought was that he'd been poisoned. Arsenic has been used as a poison since ancient times, when roman assassins would smear it on figs. It only takes between seven drops and a teaspoon to kill a human. In fact, unusual traces of arsenic have been found in napoleon bonaparte's hair which could support his belief that he was being poisoned towards the end of his life.

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