{"id":10135,"date":"2013-11-20T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10135"},"modified":"2013-11-19T17:08:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T22:08:24","slug":"the-victorian-poisoners-choice-nicotine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-victorian-poisoners-choice-nicotine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Victorian Poisoner&#8217;s Choice: Nicotine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-10137\" alt=\"poison2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/poison2.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/poison2.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/poison2-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No-one is going to argue that nicotine is a health drug. But did you know it was used as a poison? Deborah Blum reports:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1850, Gustave Fougnies was killed at a dinner party with his brother, the Comte de Bocarme.<\/li>\n<li>The motive was clear. The Comte de Bocarme was heavily in debt, and relying on his father&#8217;s inheritance. This, however, went to Gustave, who had recently become engaged.<\/li>\n<li>On the grounds of the Comte&#8217;s house was a greenhouse full of nicotine leaves and bodies of dead animals. This was however circumstantial, as at the time it was impossible to find nicotine in a body.<\/li>\n<li>A few years earlier, a French prosecutor had begun raging in court\u00a0\u201cHenceforth, let us tell would-be poisoners\u2026use plant poisons. Fear nothing; your crime will go unpunished. There is no corpus delecti (physical evidence) for it cannot be found.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Chemist Jean Servais Stas, enraged at the abuse of his discipline, spent 3 months with samples of Gustave&#8217;s tissue. He eventually abstracted nicotine using ether, acetic acid and ethanol. Proof, at last, of nicotine&#8217;s use.<\/li>\n<li>The Comte of Bocarme&#8217;s final wish was for the guillotine&#8217;s blade to be sharp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in the history of nicotine, how it compares to arsenic, and what this has to do with Michigan in 2003, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2012\/05\/nicotine-and-the-chemistry-of-murder\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2012\/05\/nicotine-and-the-chemistry-of-murder\/\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No-one is going to argue that nicotine is a health drug. But did you know it was used as a poison? Deborah Blum reports: In 1850, Gustave Fougnies was killed at a dinner party with his brother, the Comte de Bocarme. The motive was clear. The Comte de Bocarme was heavily in debt, and relying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/poison2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10140,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135\/revisions\/10140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}