Tube curare - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 94094 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 6.01 MENISPERMACEAE Chrondrodendron tomentosum | Entry Book Number | 2.2013 | |
| Artefact Name | Tube curare | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Tube curare | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Tube curareUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Harrod Materia Medica Collection | Donor No | CH 13 1 A1 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Gift from King's College London, formerly housed at the Chelsea College School of Pharmacy. See letter attached to index card | |||
| Collector | Burroughs Wellcome & Co. | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/00/1950 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Letter attached to index card: x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AFrom J D Spink, Ass Marketing Executive, Burroughs Wellcome & Co, to D.C. Harrod, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacognosy, Chelsea Polytechnic.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0A28th November 1950x0Dx0Ax0Dx0Are. Curare specimenx0Dx0Ax0Dx0AWe thank you for your letter of teh, 21st November, concerning the above, and are pleased to advise that we shall be able to help in respect of the extract as purchased by us. Arrangements have been put in hand to have despatched to you, under separate cover, one ounce of 'Curare paste2, c, ontained in a two ounce glass jar.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AThis paste is the crude extract of the Chondrodendron tomentosum root, exactly as imported by us from South America. It is of the type originally known as 'tube curare'. It would, however, be a misnomer to describe, it as such nowadays, as the native population, having become more civilised now collect the drug in petrol cans, instead of the tubular pods, as of old.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AAs your interest in this drug is an academic one we would point out an interesting anomaly, even th, ough we appreciate you may be aware of it. Our spelling above of the botanical name is correct, though many widely used textbooks give the spelling 'Chondodendron' without the 'r'. This however is an erro which was originally perpetrated many years ago, but has been perpetuated, even we understand, into the United States Pharmacopeoia.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AObviously we do not need to stress to you the dangers associated with allowing this extract to come into contact with an open wound or lesion, as it is of full d-tuboca, rine alkaloid content, and will remain so for some considerable time. | ||||