NURSING ANM AND GNM

NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS

TOXICOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The first documented poisoning victim was in
A
399 BC
B
1933
C
1399
D
1399 BC
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -It was introduced in the 1800s as a garden plant, marketed as being a “winter fern”. Poison hemlock is highly poisonous to humans and animals. It can acts as a pioneer species and quickly colonized disturbed sites.

Detailed explanation-2: -Conium maculatum is the plant that killed Theramenes, Socrates, Polemarchus, and Phocion. Socrates, the most famous victim of hemlock poisoning, was accused of impiety and corrupting the minds of the young men of Athens in 399 BC, and his trial gave down his death sentence.

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