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# BYCU Historical Edition
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/31301/
- Published: 2014-01-18T12:08:37.000Z
- Updated: 2014-01-18T12:08:37.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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Died of a Hangover?

Among my store of historical esoterica that I use to entertain and disgust friends and families with my erudition and hauteur: Alexander the Great died of a hangover. It is one of those things that has long amused me.

And, occasionally, it's been one of those things that have scared me, mostly when I have found myself in the throes after an evening of enjoyment.

But I might to remove that piece of historical furniture from the mind room. [New evidence indicates Alexander the Great was poisoned](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2537579/Solving-2000-year-old-mystery-Did-poisoned-wine-kill-Alexander-Great.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

Albeit with wine.

> \[T\]he most plausible culprit was Veratrum album, known as white hellebore.

> The white-flowered plant, which can be fermented into a poisonous wine, was well-known to the Greeks as a herbal treatment for inducing vomiting.

> Crucially, it could have accounted for the 12 torturous days that Alexander took to die, speechless and unable to walk.