courtesy of Wakefield Council
This object is in the collection of Wakefield museum.
What is it ?
How does it relate to the history of medicine?
submitted by Ann Ferguson and John Whitaker
Mystery Object – Wakefield
Posted in medical history, Quiz.
Clue – an aid to anaesthesiology..
Could the black tips be curare?
What is it called? How does it work?!
Yes Martyn, the black tips are curare. The next questions are;
1 What was the function of the wheel on the right?
2 How were they used?
3 Who brought them back from Guiana?
Was the wheel some way of administering the curare? Charles Waterton travelled to British Guiana and brought curare back from there.