![]() ![]() Thomas Neil Cream killed at least seven women and one man, possibly many more, between 18 by giving them strychnine as medicine, both in the U.S. Strychnine is an alkaloid that paralyzes the victim and causes death by respiratory failure. ![]() Strychnine has been used as a homeopathic remedy (in very diluted form), a performance-enhancing drug for athletes, a slight hallucinogenic used to cut street drugs, and most commonly as rat poison. The poison was first isolated from the plant in 1818 by two French chemists, Pierre Joseph Pelletier and Joseph-Bienamé Caventou, who also isolated quinine (used to treat malaria) from its source. Strychnine is made from seeds of the tree Strychnos nux-vomica, found in Asia and Australia. His sentence was death by hemlock, and he had to drink the poison by his own hand. The 70-year-old was found guilty of heresy in a trial in Athens. The most famous case of hemlock poisoning was that of Greek philosopher Socrates in 399 BCE. A victim will remain aware of what is happening. Paralysis of the respiratory system is the usual cause of death. maculatum will cause paralysis of various body systems. maculatum plant contain poison alkaloids. This hemlock is no relation to the coniferous eastern hemlock tree in North America. Poison hemlock ( Conium maculatum) is a flowering plant with fleshy, carrotlike roots that can grow up to 10 feet tall. Before Macbeth became king in 1040, he supposedly used nightshade to poison an army of Danes who invaded Scotland. Legend has it that when Agrippina the Younger hired the assassin Locusta to kill the Roman emperor Claudius, Locusta used nightshade. Another drug found in nightshade is scopolamine, which has some of the same properties as atropine, and (in very dilute quantities) is also used for motion sickness and to combat drug addiction. In eye surgery, it relaxes the muscles and dilates the eye. Atropine is used during surgery to regulate the heartbeat, decrease salivation, and paralyze muscles. The alkaloid atropine is one of the active ingredients in nightshade. ![]()
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