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Here's something worse: for a while, curare was used on children when undergoing surgery. Turns out that rather than anesthetizing them, it simply paralyzed the
by yboris 6y ago
Here's something worse: for a while, curare was used on children when undergoing surgery. Turns out that rather than anesthetizing them, it simply paralyzed them. Kids came out of surgery describing how they felt the surgery, and doctors just insisted that that was post-surgery nightmares.
- StavrosK 6y agoThat's too bad, it seems like a pretty easy to confirm, but I suspect nobody gave a crap.
- ectopod 6y agoThis is reminiscent of the lethal injection protocol. It consists of: * A fast- and short-acting barbiturate to knock you out. * A muscle relaxant to stop you breathing. * Potassium chloride to induce a heart attack. It incidentally causes great pain. If the effect of the barbiturate wore off too quickly this would be an appalling death. Does it? Quite possibly. The creator of the protocol said > It never occurred to me when we set this up that we'd have complete idiots administering the drugs But nobody gives a shit.
- StavrosK 6y agoI wonder if a heroin overdose would be better.