| | | [266] _Athanas. Kircher._ Magnes sive de Arte magnetica Opus. Rom. | | 1654. fol. p. 589. | | | | [267] _Joann. Juvenis_ de antiquitate et varia Tarentinorum fortuna | | Lib. VIII. Neapol. 1589. fol. Lib. II. ch. 17. p. 107. With the | | exception of the statement quoted, _Juvenis_ has borrowed almost | | every thing from _Matthioli_. | | | | [268] _Simon. Alloys._ _Tudecius_, physician to Queen Christine, | | saw a case of this kind in July, 1656. _Bonet._ Medicina | | septentrionalis collatit. Genev. 1684. fol. | | | | [269] _Epiphan. Ferdinand._ Centum historiæ seu observationes et | | casus medici. Venet. 1621. fol. Hist. LXXXI. p. 259. _Ferdinando_, | | a physician in Messapia at the commencement of the seventeenth | | century, has collected, with much diligence, the various statements | | respecting the Tarantism of his time. He “_was himself an eye | | witness of it_,” (p. 265.) and is by far the most copious of all | | the old writers on this subject. | | | | [270] _Kircher_, loc. cit. pp. 588, 589. | | | | [271] _Ferdinand._ p. 259. | | | | [272] For example:— | | | | “Allu mari mi portati | | Se voleti che mi sanati. | | Allu mari, alla via: | | Cosi m’ama la donna mia. | | Allu mari allu mari: | | Mentre campo, t’aggio amari.” | | | | _Kircher_, loc. cit. p. 592.—Appendix, No. V. | | | | [273] _Ferdinand._ loc. cit. p. 257. | | | | [274] _Kircher_, p. 589. | | | | [275] _Plin._ Hist. Nat. Lib. XXVIII. ch. 2. p. 447. Ed. _Hard._ |