Conium maculatum 399 BC, and his trial resulted in a death sentence. Although Socrates could have avoided death, he decided to take a potent infusion of the hemlock plant. Plato described Socrates' death in the "Phaedo": Although many have questioned whether this is a factual account, it is the perspective of Bloch that careful attention to Plato's words, modern and ancient medicine and other ancient Greek sources point to this account being consistent with "Conium" poisoning. Conium maculatum Conium maculatum, the hemlock or poison hemlock, is a highly poisonous biennial herbaceous flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae, native to Europe and
Golden poison frog semiopaca", "C. rugiceps" and "C. sp. A". Other related toxins, histrionicotoxin and pumiliotoxin, are found in frog species from the genus "Dendrobates". The golden poison frog, like most other poisonous frogs, stores its poison in skin glands. Due to their poison, the frogs are deterrent to predators; "P. terribilis" poison probably kills any predator, except for one snake species, "Liophis epinephelus". This snake may be resistant to the frog's poison, but is not immune (Myers & Daly, 1978). The poisonous frogs and birds themselves are perhaps the only creatures to be immune to this poison. Batrachotoxin attacks the sodium channels