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A forensic hypothesis for the mystery of al-Hasan’s death in the 7th century: Mercury(I) chloride intoxication
The puzzle of a mysterious death in the Middle Ages has been hypothesized in terms of contemporary forensic legal and scientific methods. That al-Hasan ibn-‘Ali died in 669 aged just 45 has been forensically analyzed based on written sources that dictate eyewitness accounts of historical events. The...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4923806/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26377933 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0025802415601456 |
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author | Burke, Nicole Golas, Mitchell Raafat, Cyrus L. Mousavi, Aliyar |
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description | The puzzle of a mysterious death in the Middle Ages has been hypothesized in terms of contemporary forensic legal and scientific methods. That al-Hasan ibn-‘Ali died in 669 aged just 45 has been forensically analyzed based on written sources that dictate eyewitness accounts of historical events. The report of the contemporaneous poisoning of another individual who resided under the same household as al-Hasan’s and experienced similar, yet non-lethal, symptoms has served as the beginning of the analysis. In light of ancient (medieval) documents and through using mineralogical, medical, and chemical facts, it has been hypothesized that mineral calomel (mercury(I) chloride, Hg(2)Cl(2)) from a certain region in the Byzantine Empire (present-day western Turkey) was the substance primarily responsible for the murder of al-Hasan. |
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spelling | pubmed-49238062016-07-05 A forensic hypothesis for the mystery of al-Hasan’s death in the 7th century: Mercury(I) chloride intoxication Burke, Nicole Golas, Mitchell Raafat, Cyrus L. Mousavi, Aliyar Med Sci Law Original Articles The puzzle of a mysterious death in the Middle Ages has been hypothesized in terms of contemporary forensic legal and scientific methods. That al-Hasan ibn-‘Ali died in 669 aged just 45 has been forensically analyzed based on written sources that dictate eyewitness accounts of historical events. The report of the contemporaneous poisoning of another individual who resided under the same household as al-Hasan’s and experienced similar, yet non-lethal, symptoms has served as the beginning of the analysis. In light of ancient (medieval) documents and through using mineralogical, medical, and chemical facts, it has been hypothesized that mineral calomel (mercury(I) chloride, Hg(2)Cl(2)) from a certain region in the Byzantine Empire (present-day western Turkey) was the substance primarily responsible for the murder of al-Hasan. SAGE Publications 2015-09-15 2016-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4923806/ /pubmed/26377933 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0025802415601456 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Burke, Nicole Golas, Mitchell Raafat, Cyrus L. Mousavi, Aliyar A forensic hypothesis for the mystery of al-Hasan’s death in the 7th century: Mercury(I) chloride intoxication |
title | A forensic hypothesis for the mystery of al-Hasan’s death in the 7th century: Mercury(I) chloride intoxication |
title_full | A forensic hypothesis for the mystery of al-Hasan’s death in the 7th century: Mercury(I) chloride intoxication |
title_fullStr | A forensic hypothesis for the mystery of al-Hasan’s death in the 7th century: Mercury(I) chloride intoxication |
title_full_unstemmed | A forensic hypothesis for the mystery of al-Hasan’s death in the 7th century: Mercury(I) chloride intoxication |
title_short | A forensic hypothesis for the mystery of al-Hasan’s death in the 7th century: Mercury(I) chloride intoxication |
title_sort | forensic hypothesis for the mystery of al-hasan’s death in the 7th century: mercury(i) chloride intoxication |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4923806/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26377933 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0025802415601456 |
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