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Who Killed Alexander the Great?

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    Posted: 17-Jan-2014 at 05:16
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April Holloway, writing for the Ancient Origins web site describes Alexander the Great as having died after 12 days of agonising pain. She dismisses the possibility of him having died of Malaria, typhoid or alcoholic poisoning, as the symptoms do not coincide with the manner of his death. But, she postulates, there is a possibility that he may have died from drinking wine made from a poisonous plant.
In reaching her conclusions, she writes the following,"New research conducted by Dr Leo Schep from the National Poisons Centre in New Zealand suggests that Alexander died from drinking poisonous wine from an innocuous-looking plant that, when fermented, is incredibly deadly.

Dr Schep, who has been researching the toxicological evidence for a decade, said some of the other poisoning theories - including arsenic and strychnine - were not plausible as death would have come far too fast, not over 12 days as the records suggest. The same applies to other poisons such as hemlock, aconite, wormwood, henbane and autumn crocus.

However, Dr Schep’s research, co-authored by Otago University classics expert Dr Pat Wheatley and published in the medical journal Clinical Toxicology, found the most plausible culprit was Veratrum album, known as white hellebore. The white-flowered plant, which can be fermented into a poisonous wine, was well-known to the Greeks as a herbal treatment.

Dr Schep's theory was that Veratrum album could have been fermented as a wine that was given to the leader. It would have tasted 'very bitter' but it could have been sweetened - and Alexander was likely to have been very drunk at the banquet. The symptoms caused by consuming the plant also fit with the description of what Alexander experienced over the 12 days before he died.
- See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/have-scientists-solved-2000-year-old-mystery-death-alexander-great-001213#sthash.pay0B9tF.dpuf

Does anyone else have reputable information on the manner of his death?
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  Quote opuslola Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04-Mar-2014 at 22:38
I would suggest than any record recording his death and the place of his death, and even the existence of him, is nothing more than mere speculation!

Show me the "facts!" LOL

I dare you!

Ron

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