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Hippolyte Visart de BOCARMÉ

Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé

The Countess Lydie Victoire Josèphe Fougnies

The laboratory

The Castle of Bitremont

The dining room where the crime occurs.

The murder

In 1851, the Belgian chemist Jean Stas was the first to prove the use of tobacco extract as a
murder poison in the civilised world. The Belgian count Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé had
poisoned his brother-in-law with tobacco leaf extract in order to acquire some urgently
needed money. This was the first exact proof of alkaloids in forensic medicine.