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Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé
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Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé
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The Countess
Lydie Victoire Josèphe Fougnies
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The Countess
Lydie Victoire Josèphe Fougnies
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The
laboratory
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The Castle of Bitremont
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The Castle of Bitremont
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The
dining room where the crime occurs.
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The murder
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In 1851, the Belgian chemist Jean Stas was the first to prove the
use of tobacco extract as a
murder poison in the civilised world. The Belgian count Hippolyte
Visart de Bocarmé had
poisoned his brother-in-law with tobacco leaf extract in order to
acquire some urgently
needed money. This was the first exact proof of alkaloids in
forensic medicine.
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