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Blood thereby become more free : Hence that ferene Air dlffufed 

 all of a fadden over the Face of the fick Muiician, who was 

 cured by the Charms of his own Art. 



T H E s E two Inilances are quoted by the Learned Dr. Nieu- 

 iventytf who fays, both of them (the Mufician and Dancing- 

 Ma(ier) were perfectly reflored to their Senfes by Mufick. He 

 alfo obferves, that the Wound given by the Tarantula can only 

 be cured by the Sound of Mufick, of which different Airs and 

 Tunes mull be play'd, according to the different Nature and Co- 

 lour of thofe Tarantida*s that have given the Wound *. Then 

 adds ; 



That the famous Italian Mufician, Angela Vitali had re- 

 lated to him the following Story, and affured him of the Truth 

 of it, viz, 



T H A T a certain Player on the Flute at Venice had boafted, 

 that by his playing, he could deprive the Hearers of the Ufe of 

 their Underffanding : Whereupon he was fent for by the T)oge^ 

 who was a Lover of Mufick, and commanded to put his Art in 

 pradlice before him ; where, after having play'd fome time very 

 finely, (and to the Amazement of the Hearers) he at lafl begun 

 a mournful Tune, with a Defign, as far as he was able, to put 

 the I^oge into a melancholy Humour; and prefently, he ffruck 

 up a jovial one, to difpofe him to Mirth and Dancing; and after 

 having repeated thefe two kind of Tunes feveral times by turns, 

 the Doge being no longer able to endure thofe different Emotions, 

 which he felt in his Soul, he was ordered to forbear playing any 

 longer. Ibid. p. 571. 



FROM the Account given of Concords and Dijcords in Mu- 

 Jicky a Reafon may be formed why tivo Stri?2gs of a Viol, that are 

 Unifons or O Staves one to another, if one be Jlriick the other will 

 tremble, fo as to be vifibly perceived. 



WHAT is this Unifon ? In Mulick, TJnifon is a Confonance 

 of two Sounds, produced by two Strings, or other Bodies of the 

 fame Matter, Length, Thicknefs, and Tenfion, equally ffruck, and 

 at the fame Time, fo that they yield the fame Tone or Note. 

 Others define it, the Union of two Sounds, (o like each other, that 

 the Ear perceiving no Difference, receives them as one and the 

 fame Sound. 



Wh at 



"* Religious Thilofo^hi^r. vol, i. Contempl. xiii. Sedl,27o. 



