Hair as Cables of Information

The accounts of chivalry of Napolean Bonaparte who rose from an army  general to be the Emperor of France, are still remembered even by children. He was a brave warrior who had maintained unshorn hair. He hated the word 'impossible' and according to him this word occurs only in the dictionary of fools. He might have reached this conclusion only because of his intellectual genius and competence. He fought several battles against England and was finally defeated at Waterloo in1815 by England. He was confined in saint Helina Island where he died a mysterious death on 5 May 1821. Nobody was able to tell for 100 years the real cause of Napolean's death. After his death, along with other precious things Napolean's hair were also preserved. The latest experiments of chemistry have revealed that there are found in human hair 30 kinds of trace metals which are available in blood as well, but their presence in the hair is much more than in blood. Consequently experiments began to be made on hair which provided us immensely valuable information which was not available earlier. This new research unveiled in 1962 the mystery of Napolean's death when researches on his hair revealed that his death was due to arsenic. Inspite of this the matter did not end there. Many more questions have arisen thereafter. For example, did those hair really belong to Napolean?

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