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produces the fame Effefts with the biting of a TarafttoU. 
If a Tarantola be removed out of its natural Place, v. g, 
to Naples, Rome, and there admitted to bite, it dotn 
no harm at all ; which is very unlikely ; but that the 
Tar ant oU bred at Rome are innocent, is probable. The 
fame heing experienced in the Jiiftging of Scorpions^ which 
in Africa is deadly^ hut in Italy, if they are bred there ^ 
Innocent : and I douht not hut that we in England have the 
fame Species of Spider with the Tarantola. 
The Eigh:eeathObfervatioo is abcut a venomous Spi- 
6(tr oi Sardinia, whofe Bite is very dangerous, fwelling 
the whole Body, S'r. and caufmg Deatii in a few Hours 
It's curtd by Oyl Ohve, in which the Creature is fuifo- 
cared, fet in ihe Sun in Summer-time, or upon a Stove 
for feme Days, anointing the part therewith Morning 
and Evening, and giving feme Treacle inwardly. Here 
he difcourfes a little upon the Pietra Jecoiras, which be 
thinks moft probably to be a Mixture or compound 
thing, not a fimple Body ; concerning the faiurary Ef- 
feds, whereof NaturaLlls are not agreed, Signior Redi 
ftouily contradidiing Father Kircher^ with his Experi- 
ments. In another Pkce he faitli, that ferae afErm, 
that the Stones with which Signior Redi made his Ex- 
periments,were not true and genuine ontfs; and here he 
gives (everal Inftances of Cures wrought by the Ufe of 
this Srone, wtll attefted. 
The Nineteenth Obfervaticn is concerning Pcifons,and 
their Preft:rvatives or Antidotes. Here he gives us Two 
Receipts of the famous E'eciuiry, called, Orvietan; and 
fairh, that he had found cut, that Tome Empirick, no- 
ted for the Preparation of this Medicine, put into it feme 
Plants of Afarahacca, and as many Stalks of Gratiola^ 
which ^re fo far from bein^ Alexipharmical, that rhey 
Purge with Violence, and gives an Account of this Pra- 
Gc'vk. He faith, chat he cannot, without Reludancy, 
believe 
