Description

Hemlock or Conium is a highly toxic flowering plant indigenous to Europe and South Africa. It was a popular one with the ancient Greeks, who used it to kill off their prisoners. For an adult, the ingestion of **0mg of conium or about 8 leaves of the plant is fatal death comes in the form of paralysis, your mind is wide awake, but your body doesnt respond and eventually the respiratory system shuts down. Probably the most famous hemlock poisoning is that of Greek philosopher, Socrates. Condemned to death for impiety in **9 BC, he was given a very concentrated infusion of hemlock