2. _DURING the Time of Cure, the wounded People throw themselves into a Variety of strange Forms_, and behave like Drunkards and Madmen ... talking foolishly ... diverting themselves with naked Swords, red Cloth, _&c._ but the Sight of any Object that appears black is terrible to them. _Ibid._ To this Account of the _Tarantula_, I have (by way of Illustration) added the Remarks of another learned Foreigner, who says.... The venemous Bite of the _Tarantula_ is quickly follow’d with a very acute Pain, and soon after, with Numbness, profound Sadness, difficult Respiration: The Pulse grows weak, the Sight disturbed; Persons lose their Knowledge, Sense, and Motion; and if destitute of Help, they die.... The most effectual and certain _Remedy_ is _Musick_: When the Person becomes destitute of Knowledge and Motion, a _Musician_ tries a Variety of Airs: Shou’d he hit on that whose Harmony is suited to the Patient, he begins to move by successive Degrees, and keeps Time with his Fingers, Arms, Legs, _&c._ he raises himself, and dances about six Hours without Intermission.... When the Musick ceases, the sick Person gives over dancing, and is put to Bed: The same Air brings him out of Bed for a new Dance, an Exercise that lasts six or seven Days.——_N. B._ Every sick Person must have his particular and specific Tune, and always one that is very sprightly and moving. The Poison of the _Tarantula_, adds he, thickens the Blood, and stops several of its Passages; thence the Numbness: The Blood being thick, furnishes but a small Quantity of animal Spirits, their Canals are shrunk up in the Brain: The Nerves being destitute of Spirits, relax; thence proceed the Inactivity, and Defect of Knowledge and Motion: But the Vibrations of the quick Airs which are play’d, agitate the Blood and the rest of the animal Spirits, which are soon increased by the Agitation of the Blood: Being agitated and multiply’d, they run into the Fibres and Nerves, which being put into _Unison_ with the sonorous Strings, receive their Vibrations, and are shorten’d or extended successively; whence proceeds the successive Motion of the Fingers, Arms, Legs, _&c._[320] Footnote 320: _Father Regnault. Phil. Conv. or New System of Physic_, vol. ii. _Conversation_ xiv. p. 268, -9. The action of Dancing augments the Agitation of the Blood, and makes the Patient sweat. The Poison being agitated and attenuated, is exhaled by Transpiration; in proportion as the Poison is exhaled, the sick Person perceives himself eased; this Ease continually inclines him to dance: When all the Poison is dissipated by Agitation and Sweat, the Blood recovers its Fluidity and usual Course. I Shall conclude this historical Account, with a Passage taken out of a _formed History of the Tarantula_[321], writ by a learned Author, who having described the Disease, proceeds to the manner of Cure, _viz._ The salivous Poison of that Spider seizes principally on the Nerves and Muscles––the manner of Cure thus––