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KATURAL history. 
}/ance. Sometimes thefe unhappy fymptoms 
will continue feveral years, until death re- 
lieves the fuffercr. Thofe who have been 
in Italy, where the natives are frequently 
afilifted with this malady, tell us, the only 
cure is mufic, from fuch an agreeable and 
fprightly indrument as the violin, which is, 
theiWore, one of the mod common fpecies 
of mufic in that country ; no village, or 
■cottage, is fcarcely without it. 1 he tune is 
chol'en according to the natural temper and 
difpofition of the^ patient: this is difcovered 
bv playing feveral tunes, until the unhappy 
lulferer, by his gedures, (hows that one is 
found agreeable to his fancy : this is thought 
an infallible fign of a cure being effedtech 
'Jhe patient immediately begins to dance, 
and rifes atid falls in concert with the modu- 
lations of the tunc. This is continued until 
he begins to perfpire, which indantly caufes 
an external evacuatioli of the venom. In 
this manner are thofe afflifted with the bite 
of a tarantula, cured. But, is it net an ex- 
traordinary indance of providence, that in- 
drumcntal mufc diould have attained (b 
great and general a perfedfion as it has in 
Italv, where it is necedary to preferve the 
lives of the natives, who would otherwife 
frequently die from the bite of this baneful 
and venemous infetd ? 
