What killed Napoleon?

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Was Napoleon poisoned? It has tong been thought that the exiled French dictator, who died in 1821 on the remote Atlantic island of St. Helena, was the victim of arsenic poisoning--whether by accident [fumes from the wallpaper in his bedroom) or design [poisoned by his British captors). The evidence for both theories was arsenic found in hairs from Napoleon's head. But scientists at Italy's National institute of Nuclear Physics now say that arsenic wasn't the culprit: Their analysis of hair samples from four times in Napoleon's Life, including his childhood, showed that his...