Is it confirmed that the horse phar lap was poisoned?
Phar Lap Arsenic Poisoning Confirmed June 23, 2008 The mystery surrounding Phar Lap’s death in 1932 in Menlo Park, Calif., has finally been solved: scientists have confirmed that the horse died of arsenic poisoning. Phar LapResearchers Dr. Ivan Kempson of the University of South Australia and Dermot Henry, manager of Natural Science Collections at Museum Victoria, took six hairs from Phar Lap’s mane and analyzed them at the Advanced Photon Source Synchrotron in Chicago, finding that in the 40 hours before Phar Lap’s death the horse had ingested a massive dose of arsenic. Poisoning had long been suspected in the gelding’s death. His trainer found him suffering from a high fever and in severe pain. A few hours later, he hemorrhaged to death. During an autopsy, it was discovered that his stomach and intestines were inflamed. Now the only question that remains is whether it was accidental — notebooks kept by Phar Lap’s handler Tommy Woodcock, obtained by Museum Victoria, show the horse was
Phar Lap Arsenic Poisoning Confirmed June 23, 2008 The mystery surrounding Phar Lap’s death in 1932 in Menlo Park, Calif., has finally been solved: scientists have confirmed that the horse died of arsenic poisoning. Phar LapResearchers Dr. Ivan Kempson of the University of South Australia and Dermot Henry, manager of Natural Science Collections at Museum Victoria, took six hairs from Phar Lap’s mane and analyzed them at the Advanced Photon Source Synchrotron in Chicago, finding that in the 40 hours before Phar Lap’s death the horse had ingested a massive dose of arsenic. Poisoning had long been suspected in the gelding’s death. His trainer found him suffering from a high fever and in severe pain. A few hours later, he hemorrhaged to death. During an autopsy, it was discovered that his stomach and intestines were inflamed. Now the only question that remains is whether it was accidental — notebooks kept by Phar Lap’s handler Tommy Woodcock, obtained by Museum Victoria, show the horse was
