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May 28, 2012 08:54 am PDT
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The sordid history of a perfect poison
Suxamethonium chloride is a common hospital anesthetic that has, off and on, moonlighted as murder weapon. Used to paralyze patients so that doctors can more easily put insert a breathing tube, the drug can kill very easily if the person who gets a dose of it doesn't have access to things like respirators, or a [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/dQt2IzXjZmE/the-sordid-history-of-a-perfec.html
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