On this account care was taken to continue the music until exhaustion was produced; for it was better to pay a few extra musicians, who might relieve each other, than to permit the patient, in the midst of this curative exercise, to relapse into so deplorable a state of suffering.

The attack consequent upon the bite of the tarantula, Matthioli describes as varying much in its manner.

Some became morbidly exhilarated, so that they remained for a long while without sleep, laughing, dancing, and singing in a state of the greatest excitement.
Others, on the contrary, were drowsy.

The generality felt nausea and suffered from vomiting, and some had constant tremors.

Complete mania was no uncommon occurrence, not to mention the usual dejection of spirits and other subordinate symptoms.
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