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Record #46365:
Arsenic and old ice / Anon.
Title: | Arsenic and old ice / Anon. |
Date: | 1969. |
Abstract: | From analysis of hair and fingernails from Hall's exhumed body, brief report on recent discovery by Arctic historian Chauncy Loomis and pathologist Franklin Paddock, that Charles Francis Hall (buried after returning to Polaris after dog-sled journey to interior of Greenland), died of arsenic poisoning. No evidence as to whether murder (as Hall suspected) or ingested by accident from overdose of tonic containing arsenic. |
Notes: | Offprint: Newsweek. Vol. 13 January :87. |
Keywords: | 612.014.46 -- Poisons and chemical substances, physiological effects. 92 -- Biographies: Hall, Charles Francis. 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1871-73 Hall. W -- Expeditions and exploration. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*38) -- Greenland. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-PAM: 91(08) : (*3)[1871 Hall] |
SPRI record no.: | 46365 |
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