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In my personal opinion I do believe that physical evidence has increased in importance over the last days, weeks, years, several decades, and even several centuries. The reason I say this is because advancements made in technology compared to tech back then was when only looked at the physical wounds. They would give the obvious guesses in what physically happened to the victim. So if someone were to be poisoned no one would know unless the poison provoked a certain reaction to the body like for example the poison Cleopatra used on his husband was probably: belladonna, henbane, and the strychnine tree's seed which was the most accessible at that time. There are many other theories. However these seem to be the most logical poisons since…

Belladonna: Causes narcosis and paralysis.
Henbane: Hallucinations, dilated pupils, restlessness, and flushed skin. Other effects are tachycardia, convulsions, vomiting, hypertension, hyperpyrexia, and ataxia.
Strychnine: 1ST symptoms sometimes show up as muscle spasms. Appear very quickly after inhalation or injection, within a few minutes to be precise. With a very high dose, there is respiratory failure and death may happen between 15 to 30 mins. If there is a lower dose symptoms are different.
This involves seizures, cramping, stiffness, hyper vigilance, plus agitation
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Only one must eat the poison. Either Alexandra or Leo, it’s a tough choice. This kind of poison I believe may be either the strong poison Ricina or Arsenic poisoning. Closest guess. Since this is a dramatized series. Besides based on time, place and country poisons are different. And this poison is unknown. If Suleiman or any doctor of that time were to have done a forensic work on the man they can obvious say it was

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