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Me and My Poison

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

4/5. Curare. Professor Stanley Feldman has spent 50 years studying curare, the plant poison used by Amazonian Indians on the tips of blow darts. Synthetic versions of curare are now a major componen of modern anaesthesia. Professor Feldman tells Jolyon Jenkins how curare has made the journey from feared poison to beneficial drug. Producer Jolyon Jenkins

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Professor Stanley Feldman
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Jolyon Jenkins
Producer:
Jolyon Jenkins
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