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Doctors Even Killed Napoleon

  • July 22, 2004

Researchers now believe that over-enthusiastic medics - not cancer or murder - may have caused Napoleon Bonaparte's death. He was given regular doses of antimony potassium tartrate, or tartar emetic a poisonous colourless salt which was used to make him vomit. He was also given regular enemas. The researchers say this would have caused a serious potassium deficiency, which can lead to a potentially fatal heart condition called Torsades de Pointes in which rapid heartbeats disrupt blood...
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