It is often said, the reason was slow poisoning by British Government.
He tested the effect of carbon monoxide on his own body in a closed chamber, describing the results of his slow poisoning.
The relentless pollution has caused the slow poisoning of one of the world's great rivers, contaminating drinking water and destroying marine life.
Kharak Singh became a prisoner and died from a slow poisoning on 5 November 1840.
P6isoning - slow poisoning - is an intimate family matter.
"But they don't make the connection between their symptoms and slow poisoning."
He was imprisoned at Lahore until his death in November 1840 from slow poisoning.
Duncan Marsh would have done better because his Muslim cook inflicts slow poisoning on him (a common practice, we are told, in postwar Tangier).
Were they all really in a state of auto-intoxication here--continual slow poisoning of the tissues?