The Wound given by any of them is dangerous, and has different Indications. In some that are bitten, an universal Stupor follows; others weep: Some tremble and vomit; others laugh, fancying themselves to be Kings. This perhaps made Dr. _Cornelio_ represent this as an imaginary Disease; that those who imagine themselves hurt, are most of our young wanton Girls, who, falling from some particular Indisposition into Melancholy and Madness, persuade themselves that they have been stung by a _Tarantula_[319]. Footnote 319: _Philos. Transact._ Some grow pale, sick and faint, and die in a short time, unless relieved by Musick, which alone, without the Help of Medicine, performs the Cure. The Wounded are as Men half dead, but at the first Sound of a musical Instrument, though they are very weak, and seemingly unable to stir, they begin by degrees to move their Hands and Feet, till at last they get up, and then fall to dancing with wonderful Vigour, for two or three Hours, their Strength and Activity still encreasing. Some will continue the Dance, without Intermission for six Hours; and when tired they are put to Bed, and after they are sufficiently recruited by Rest, they are called up again by the same Tune, and renew the Dance with great Violence, the Musick still playing; and when the Patients grow weary, they are put into Bed again, and kept warm to encourage Perspiration. These Exercises being continued six or seven Days, the Patient finds himself fatigued and unable to dance any longer, which is the Characteristic of a Cure. They usually spend ten or twelve Hours a-day in this violent Exercise, and continue it for three or four, or six Days; by which time they are generally freed from all their Symptoms, tho’ not always, says the learned _Baglivi_, who observes, that about the same time next Year, the Distemper returns, and will prove fatal, if not prevented by the same musical Application. In _Apulia_ is a _Scorpion_, whose Wounds are accompanied with the same Effects as those produced by the _Tarantula_, and are only curable by _Musick_ and _Motion_. These _Apulian Scorpions_, are less violent than those of _Africa_, but more virulent than those in other Parts of _Italy_. I shall only offer two Remarks here. 1. _THAT different Patients must be entertain’d with different Tunes, according to the different Symptoms of the Disease_; in which the great Art of curing them seems to consist. _e. g._ Some are roused by a Pipe, others by a Timbrel: Some are roused by a Violin, others by the Harp; and all must be entertain’d with different Airs. The Musicians therefore make Trial before they can accommodate the _Sound to the Venom_; which requires the most brisk and lively Tunes, to produce a powerful Vibration in the Body; and till this be done, the miserable Patients stand still, sighing and sobbing. The Vibrations must be quick and frequent.