The main purposes of this paper are to consider the indications for curare and its comparison with other agents and to present experience with the use of curare (Intocostrin¶) in 450 cases. The basis ...

“A fantastic poison vaguely connected with South American Indians and detective novels” was Dr. Harold R. Griffith’s first idea of curare (rhymes with safari). But in last week’s Canadian Medical ...

UC Santa Cruz History Professor Matt O’Hara has received a prestigious $60,000 Public Scholars award from the National Endowment For The Humanities. The funding will support O’Hara’s research project ...

Curare, like quinine, was originally discovered in South America before eventually finding its way to Europe, where its active ingredient, the alkaloid d-tubocurare, was isolated. [10] Because it ...

MOST people, I imagine, know about the deadly South American poison curare from detective stories, often featuring a brilliant amateur who is running rings round the dimwits of Scotland Yard, ...

Curare, a drug which blocks nerve impulses at the myoneural junction, has been used in investigations aimed at the identification of the receptor substance of acetylcholine. This article reviews the ...