 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Meteorology - 1809 - 792 pages
...like those produced by the bite of a scorpion, which go off by themselves without any danger at all. In Sicily, where the summer is still warmer than in any part of the kingdom of Naples, the Tarantula is never dangerous, and music is never employed for the cure of... | |
 | Sir John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly - Medicine - 1845 - 816 pages
...that, " having had an opportunity of examining the effects of this animal in the province of Taranto, where it is found in great abundance, he finds that...employed for the cure of the pretended tarantism. (See Edinb. Med. and Phys. Diet art. Aranea.) Dr. Laurent, who lived in the kingdom of Naples for a... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 922 pages
...upon the part, like that produced by the bite of the scorpion, and which went off without any danger. In Sicily, where the summer is still warmer than in any part of the kingdom of Naples, the tarentula, according to Professor Cirillo, is never dangerous, and music... | |
 | 1845 - 518 pages
...after a time without the application of any remedy. In Sicily, where the summers are still warmer, the tarantula is never dangerous, and music is never...employed for the cure of the pretended tarantism. And in the province where it has appeared, through the craft of the peasantry, to be a real disorder,... | |
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Tarantula; and neither men nor animals, after the bite, have had any other complaint, but a very trifling inflammation upon the part, like those produced by the bite of a scorpion, which go off by themselves without any danger at all. In Sicily, where... 