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How "Flying Death" Has Saved Hundreds of Lives
- Published_at:2017-06-18
- Category:Education
- Channel:SciShow
- tags: SciShow science Hank Green education learn poison darts arrows curare flying death skeletal muscles Chondrodendron tomentosum tubocurarine alkaloid neuromuscular blocking agent anesthesia chloroform strychnos toxifera
- description: Curare, known as "flying death," was used for centuries to make poisoned arrows. Scientists discovered how to use it to create life saving medical treatments that we still use today. Hosted by: Michael Aranda ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters—we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shoutout to Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, KatieMarie Magnone, Patrick Merrithew, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Sultan Alkhulaifi, Tim Curwick, Scott Satovsky Jr, Philippe von Bergen, Bella Nash, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Charles George ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1038/sj.bjp.0706404/abstract http://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/page/Curare http://www. sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123864543004826 http://www.med.uottawa.ca/historyofmedicine/hetenyi/milner.html http://nickalls.org/dick/papers/anes/curare1985a.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2312021/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1279945/ http://neuroscience.uth.tmc.edu/s1/chapter04.html https://books.google.com/books?id=_Du2bfrO9FwC&pg=PA527 https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp6.pdf https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/phs/phs.asp?id=51&tid=16
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