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...Drugs made from curare (South American arrow poison) make surgery safer by relaxing patients' muscles. Similarly, reports the National Heart Institute, a drug named strophanthidin, from an African arrow poison, has been found to reduce the danger of heart stoppage during operations under hypothermia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Apr. 29, 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

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