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It happened when he was drinking, and he collapsed in great p ain. He died only after12 days, and he was in agony for 8-9 of those days. Before he slipped into a coma, he again and again asked for his sword, to put himself out of this misery.
Arsenic acts much faster, and strychnine too. The historians could not identify such a slow acting poison, and they fell back on food poisoning; there was a list of likely food items I saw somewhere.
He wanted to see only one person: his mother Olympias, but she was not there.
His boon companion and dearest friend, Hephaestion, had died 8 months earlier, of typhoid. Some felt that the acute and prolonged grief over Hephaestion's passing had weakened Alexander even physically, and that this had contributed to his inability to resist the poison.
The odd thing is that if Alexander was really proof against poisons, he could not have died of any kind of poisoning. I am not sure if this story, of his being poison proof, was true.
It was surely true of Chandragupta Maurya, who.was regularly fed small doses of poison by Chanakya.
Shyamala Aunty
QUOTE=FlauntPessimism]Out of the context but isnt one of the theories about Alexander's death that some one poisoned him (slow poison)
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