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Plato describes a slowly ascending paralysis, beginning in Socrates’ feet and creeping steadily up his legs toward his chest, with Socrates’ mind remaining clear until the end. Death arrives calmly and peacefully. It is a remarkable account, rich in emotive power and in clinical detail.
Death of Socrates: a likely case of poison hemlock (Conium maculatum) poisoning. The death of Socrates can be accepted as a limited case report of Conium maculatum poisoning and intriguing scientific questions remain about the toxicity of the coniine alkaloids and the mechanisms of their effects.
The death of Socrates in 399 BCE, as reported by Plato in the Phaedo, is usually attributed to poisoning with common hemlock. His progressive centripetal paralysis is characteristic of that poison.
THE DEATH OF SOCRATES. THE scene at the end of the Phaedo, in which Plato by poisoning from hemlock, is moving and impressive. of witnessing directly an actual event, accurately and death of the historical Socrates. There are, however, in the scene, and in the effects of the hemlock on them.
2 sty 2024 · Death of Socrates: a likely case of poison hemlock (Conium maculatum) poisoning. The death of Socrates can be accepted as a limited case report of Conium maculatum poisoning and intriguing scientific questions remain about the toxicity of the coniine alkaloids and the mechanisms of their effects.
24 lut 2009 · The death of Socrates in 399 BCE, as reported by Plato in the Phaedo, is usually attributed to poisoning with common hemlock. His progressive centripetal paralysis is characteristic of that poison.
13 lut 2024 · Socrates’ death has almost always been attributed to his drinking an extract of poison hemlock, Conium maculatum, despite apparent discrepancies between the clinical features described in classical translations of the Phaedo and general clinical experience of poisoning with the toxic alkaloids it contains.
