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the natural Spirits through the body. He adds the example of 
Men, capable to caufe a grangrene and death it felf by biting in 
choler ; whereas no fuch accident comes to pafs, when they chance 
to bite one without choler. He concludeth this difcourfe with 
the ftingof ^'turmtuU^ which he conceiveth to be accompanied 
with an imagination, fo ftrongly ImpreflTcd inperfons that are 
flung by it, as that their Spirits are perverted, and made conform 
to the agitating nature of the fame, and conftrained at certain 
times by certain tunes to dance, and to return to fuch motions 
every year. To confirm which, he relatech an exampleof a NeA- 
pUtm Souldier, who, he faith, hath been thefe four years in the 
French Infantry, and is ftill in the Royal Regiment of Rmffillon. 
This perfon never failed to feel every year at a determinate time 
('z//,^. about the 24^^. of July^ the effects of that fting, which he 
had received before he came into France. And when the Idea's 
of the fting were found exalted to a degree capable to produce 
theireffefls, he beg^in todance, and would hear without interrup- 
tion the Violins, which the Officers of that Regiment caufed to be 
play 'd for him out of charity; to which heanfwer'd continually, 
Keeping his time very well , without being tired, during three 
daies, eating and drinking without interrupting his dances, and 
being very impatient at any difcontinuance of the play of the 
Violins. But on the fourth day his eagernefs to dance abated, 
when heremembred all he had done, and knew all that were about 
him ; after which time, he pafled the reft of the year without any 
inclination to dance. This Souldier, he faith, to have been feen 
thus to dance every year by thoufands of people, and particularly 
in the Camp Royal Ai 670, where the King himfelf, and the whole 
Court faw him. jjinl - 
Laftly, M. Char as efteems, that Signer Kedi would do well , if, 
for thefatisfaftionof the Publick, without ftanding up any lon- 
ger for the venomoufnefs of the Jellow juice, which he thinks hath 
been^o rationally contefted with him , he would take the pains to 
look after fome other thing, that might be common to the Vipers 
of France and Italy ^ and that might have the fame difpofition of 
matter, the fame power of a(3:ingnimbly,anddeferve to be equally 
declared to be the true feat of their Venom ; that fo Signor Redi 
might as validly exclude from it the enraged Spirits , as he (M. 
Chara^ym^ does the Jellow liquor : But if he can find none fuch^ 
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