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46 - The Man Who Purposefully Paralyzed Himself

The Curious Clinicians

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Is Curariidii a Sedating Agent?

In the like thirties and forties, yand doing surgery on them. Sadly, terrifyingy, that is exactly what i am saying. Some clinitians apparently really strongly believed that curari caused sedation. And there are case reports of that happening, and it's awful. I think there may have been some sort of mixed data from animal studies. It was t there was some equipoise, buti'm not sure it's tough yet.

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