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pious Liq lor, viz. One fingle Ounce in a Pound of 
Broth or diftilled Water. 
The Sixteenth is about the Venomous Spider or Ta- 
rantola of Corfua. The Ifland of Corfica he tclis us, pro- 
duces neither Porcupines, Wolves, nor Vipers; buc in- 
fteadoi thefe hft, it breeds venomous Spiders, called by 
the \Innabirants Tarantola or Malmignatto. Of which 
there are Two fens, the One hath a round Body, and 
refembles the Tarantola of Apulia^ and in like manner 
bices, imprciring cn all the Parts of the Perfon birten, 
an irreparable Cold with Pain and Cramps and Swelling 
in the whole Superficies ol the Body. The other Spi- 
der {lings, makes no Web, is in Shape of ri.eBody like 
to a Horfe- Anr,. he hath but Six Feet ; vchencs it appears 
to he really no Spider^ hut- of the Ant kind. Its dinging 
is attended witii many dangerous Symptoms, as Livid- 
nefs of the Fiefli, an intolerable Spajmus or Cramp, 
fbmetimes flopping of the Urine and natural Evacuation ; 
a kind of Congelation of the whole Habit of the Bo- 
dy. For Cure, they ufe Cupping, Scarification, burn- 
ing the Wound, applying to it Tkeriacay or Orvtetan^ 
and giving inwardly ftrong Wine with Venice-Treacle to 
drink. 
The Seventeenth Obfervation is of the Tarantola oi 
Apulia^ which is a bearen SubjecSt, and of which more 
hath been faid than is true. Notwithftanding w^hat our 
Author hath written, I am not fully fatisfied, that the 
Dancing of the 7jrj»/<i/i to certain Xunes and Inflru» 
raents, and that thefs Fits continue to recurre Yearly 
as long as the Tarantola that bit them lives, and then 
ceafe, are any other than afting Fi£tions and Tricks to -^ 
get Money. The Symptoms that attend the biting of 
the Tarantola of Apulia^ as alfo the manner of Cure and 
Remedies, are the fame with thofe mentioned* in the 
precedent Obfervationo . The Stinging of a Scorpion 
produces ^ 
