"For many centuries the exact content of curare remained a mystery to Western observers; not until 1800 did Alexander Von Humboldt witness and document the preparation of curare by the Indians from the Orinco River. In 1814, an explorer named Charles Waterton injected a donkey with curare. Within ten minutes, the donkey appeared dead. Waterton cut a small hole in her throat and inserted a pair of bellows, then pumped to inflate the lungs. The donkey held her head up and looked around. Waterton continued artificial respiration for two hours until the effects of curare had worn off. Curare was found to block the transmission of nerve impulses to muscle, including the diaphragm muscle, which controls breathing."
@Gestfala The donkey's throat being punctured could be the key to those last lines: "Sonny boy, such a sonny boy, in her voice there's a flaw Curare!" I think if I had a hole cut in my throat, there'd be a flaw in my voice, too.
@Gestfala The donkey's throat being punctured could be the key to those last lines: "Sonny boy, such a sonny boy, in her voice there's a flaw Curare!" I think if I had a hole cut in my throat, there'd be a flaw in my voice, too.
"For many centuries the exact content of curare remained a mystery to Western observers; not until 1800 did Alexander Von Humboldt witness and document the preparation of curare by the Indians from the Orinco River. In 1814, an explorer named Charles Waterton injected a donkey with curare. Within ten minutes, the donkey appeared dead. Waterton cut a small hole in her throat and inserted a pair of bellows, then pumped to inflate the lungs. The donkey held her head up and looked around. Waterton continued artificial respiration for two hours until the effects of curare had worn off. Curare was found to block the transmission of nerve impulses to muscle, including the diaphragm muscle, which controls breathing."
@Gestfala The donkey's throat being punctured could be the key to those last lines: "Sonny boy, such a sonny boy, in her voice there's a flaw Curare!" I think if I had a hole cut in my throat, there'd be a flaw in my voice, too.
@Gestfala The donkey's throat being punctured could be the key to those last lines: "Sonny boy, such a sonny boy, in her voice there's a flaw Curare!" I think if I had a hole cut in my throat, there'd be a flaw in my voice, too.