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creating in quicknefs as the patient feems affefted. After 
continuing this ridiculous, but violent exercife, till a pro- 
fufe perfpiration is brought on, the imaginary venom is 
forced from the fyftem, and the cure is completed. Such 
were the reputed effeds of the bite of the tarantula, till 
travellers of difcernment traced the whole fiftion to the 
artifice of the peafants of Apulia , who, for a ftnall fum 
had been in the habit of allowing themfelves to be 
bitten, and then counterfeited madnefs, to aftonifh the 
wondering multitude. 
