SCIENCE
15 May 2007
Tuesday 15 May 2007 15:45-16:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Jolyon Jenkins presents a series about poisons.
This edition looks at curare, the plant poison used by Amazonian Indians to put on the tips of their blow darts.
Professor Stanley Feldman has spent 50 years studying it. Synthetic versions of curare are now a major component of modern anaesthesia, paralysing the patient and allowing the anaesthetist to use less of other drugs.
