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Hemlock: murder before the Lord.

M L Davies·T A Davies
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Abstract

Two healthy young men were killed by a plume of hemlock (Conium maculatum) emitted when contaminated incense was vaporized during religious rites about the middle of the thirteenth century BC.

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M L Davies, T A Davies. 1994. Hemlock: murder before the Lord.. https://doi.org/10.1177/002580249403400411

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