How to Pronounce Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé
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Jun 14, 1818 Died on 19 Jul 1851 (aged 33)
Belgian noble man and convicted murderer
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About Hippolyte Visart De Bocarmé
- Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé (Weltevreden, Java 14 June 1818 – Mons, Belgium 19 July 1851) was a Belgian nobleman 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 leaves as poison.
- This was the first exact proof of alkaloids in forensic medicine.
