![]() ![]() Only written provenance can give any assurance. The significance of the previously reported findings is that this hair did not come from a person who died from arsenic in the time period reported by the hairgrowth.”įurthermore, the hairs submitted by the various “collectors” could not be positively authenticated as coming from Napoleon. However, the FBI laboratory has no hair for comparison purposes for the time period of Napoleon. “The amount of arsenic is greater than normal background levels found in the hair of most people living today. In fact, after the FBI ran their tests on hair samples submitted by M. The average of natural arsenic in human hair is about 10/ppm. In fact, in each case the hairs examined were found to contain levels of arsenic ranging everywhere from 1.93 to 16.8 parts per million (“ppm”). ![]() To support the arsenic poisoning theory no fewer than seven strands of what is alleged to be Napoleon's hair have been examined by reputable forensic scientists and laboratories, including the FBI in the US, Harwell Nuclear Lab in the UK, and the “Slowpoke” reactor facility in Toronto. Since Napoleon's death on May 5, 1821, hundreds of books, papers, lectures, reports, and prognostications have been written on the subject, most of which extremely partisan and vehemently emotional. Which is true – are either correct, or perhaps neither? The autopsy reported that Napoleon died from a perforation of the stomach caused by cancer. For the record, Napoleon's grandfather, father, his brother Lucien, and three of his sisters also died from stomach cancer. On the death of a Great Man Like him, we should only feel deep concern and regret.”ĭepending upon which “camp” you follow, you either believe that Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic, probably by Count Montholon, or you accept the autopsy findings, signed off by no fewer than seven doctors in attendance, that indicate Napoleon expired ultimately from stomach cancer. “He was England's greatest enemy, and mine too but I forgive him everything.
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