Scientists have finally abandoned the hypothesis of poisoning by Napoleon

A group of physicists at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Italy (INFN), University of Milan and Pavia, a study that definitively rejects the hypothesis of an intentional poisoning by arsenic in Napoleon Bonaparte during his exile on the island of St. Helena. Publish conclusions of scientists journal Il Nuovo Saggiatore, synopsis article in the newspaper The Telegraph. Physics comparing different periods of hair Bonaparte (cut into his childhood in Corsica, in the ripeness - during his exile on the island of Elba, on the day after his death on St. Helena Island), his son and his wife - the Empress Josephine, and ten people today. The samples were studied by neutron activation analysis, which can determine a high accuracy, the chemical composition of the hair. As it turned out, contained the hair of Napoleon and his family arsenic is a hundred times more than the hairs of our contemporaries. Cut the amount of arsenic in the strands of the emperor, when he was a child, is nothing more than what they have been found in post-mortem samples of his hair. Italian scientists study provides further indirect confirmation of the hypothesis that the cause of death was cancer of the stomach Bonaparte. Was published in an article in 2007 in the journal Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology, scientists have suggested that a predisposition for the disease, Napoleon was meager army diet consisting mainly of increased corned beef.