Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé
Deceased Person
– 1958
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Who was Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé?
Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé was a Belgian noble man and convicted murderer.
He poisoned his brother-in-law in order to acquire some urgently needed money. In 1851, the chemist Jean Servais Stas proved that Visart de Bocarmé had used nicotine extracted from tobacco leafs as poison. This was the first exact proof of alkaloids in forensic medicine.
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