Professor Haris says Napoleon used two to three bottles of Eau de Cologne a day He is also investigating how the world’s most prolific weed, the water hyacinth, can be put to practical use by filtering arsenic from water and so making it safe to drink. Professor Haris’s previously published research has revealed that certain types of rice carry dangerously high levels of arsenic because of where they are grown in the world and those consuming high quantities of rice are at greater risk of exposure to arsenic and developing disease. Some say he was poisoned by his captors, others say he absorbed vapours from wallpaper dyed with arsenic, while one theory is his body - which lies in a marble tomb in Paris – was swapped as Napoleon had escaped and started a new life in North America. Professor Haris says his evidence is the ‘elephant in the room’ that every medic and historian has missed for the past 200 years, and he is so sure of his findings he could back up the evidence ‘in any court in the world’.Ĭonspiracy theories about Napoleon’s death were rife from day one – and not just from his French supporters. Being from Corsica, he was fond of citrus fruits which are rich in essential oils but it is the abnormally high daily intake from Eau de Cologne that led to toxic effects. He regularly drank orange blossom water which also contains essential oil.

His exposure to high levels of essential oils was not limited to Eau de Cologne.

Professor Haris, an expert in Biomedical Science and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, will submit a research paper this week which says the essential oils in Napoleon’s favourite Eau De Cologne can explain many of the changes in Napoleon’s health, including his development of gastric cancer found during an autopsy by the Emperor’s British captors at the time.

After 200 years of conspiracy theories, a professor from De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) believes he can finally put to rest the question of who, or what, killed Napoleon Bonaparte - and it’s all down to the French emperor’s overindulgence in Eau De Cologne.Īs today marks the 200 th anniversary of the emperor’s death in exile, on the South Atlantic island of St Helena in 1821, Professor Parvez Haris says Napoleon inadvertently poisoned himself by smothering himself daily in two to three bottles of perfume over many years.ĭid Eau de Cologne poison Napoleon Bonaparte?

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