to his temper * that which is unfuitable, tormenting the party. 
Some Tarantula s he affirms to have poifon contrary to that 
of others, fo that one man bitten by both fuch, cannot be made 
to dance - forafmuch as the one poifon which induceth to dance, 
is made ineffe&ual by the contrariety of the other: It being alio 
requifite ; to ufe different Songs and Inftiuments ; according to the 
different quality of the poyfon, and the various Conftitution of 
the Patient. 
Further, he obferves, that the Tune y which is fuitable to the 
perfon bitten, is alfo fuitable to the T arantula it felf, & e contra^ 
as alfo., that not only men, but other Animals, as Cocks,Wafps 5 
^.bitten by the Spiders, do dance and that the effe&s of the 
wound depend not on the life of the wounding Spider. 
After this j our Author Philofophifeth thus. He efteems, that 
this poifon invades chiefly the Arteries and Nerves, and 
the Spirits in the Nerves i as alfo the Brain and Fibres $ 
and having caft the humours, raifed in the whole Eody, upon the 
Brain, difturbs the Imagination, according to the diverfity both 
of Men's tempers, and of the Tarantula's. 
The Feavers, Cachexy > Dancing, Sleep, Waking, various ge- 
ftures, he giveth this account of 5 That fince the Tarantula 
wounds by biting with a moift mouth in the hotteft Seafon I 
thence by an opening made, the poifon, confiding in a Salivous 
moifture, is out of the Spiders body convey ed into that of Man, 
whereby, upon its diffufion through the humane body, it affeds 
the Mufcles and Nerves principally, and in them, by the periodi- 
cal heat,the Spirits ftirring up and increafing the heat in the Heart, 
and by too vehement heat corrupting the bile in the veffels, and 
fo caufing hot Feaveis and Cachexy: And it may be alfo, that 
by that Salivous and venemous fubftance in the Mouth, the 
Pores areobftru&ed, and the paffages fliut, wherby an outlet be- 
ing denyed to the heat, it is too much augmented in the body, 
and folikewife putrifiesthe bile, and caufeth the fame diftem- 
pers. 
Sometime this poifon is joyned to the Spirits, and thereby cau- 
feth about the beginning of the Nerves another motion , than 
Nature, if not cifturbed, would produce : whence , by vellica- 
lingihe Mufcles 9 it induces the party to dance. Or it abends in- 
