In the end I have been able fully to align Plato's description with modern medical understanding. Socrates suffered a peripheral neuropathy, a toxin-induced condition resembling the Guillain-Barré syndrome, brought about by the alkaloids in Conium maculatum, the poison hemlock plant. Plato proves to have been entirely accurate in every clinical detail …
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
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… Hemlock Poisoning and the Death of Socrates: Did Plato Tell the Truth? — Journal of the International Plato Society.
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