Engraving depicting the use of a blow-pipe and poisoned darts being used to hunt monkeys in South America. The darts were tipped with curare containing the paralysing toxin curarine which, in modern medicine, is used as a muscle relaxant in anaesthesia. Dated 19th Century

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