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• without all defire os having any Mußen! Instruments, he miserably l'ydwithin two Days.

The läme Person affirm’d cc> nie, that all those that think tbemselvcs Bit-ten by Tarantulds, (cxcept sich, as hör so nie encis Fain themfelves to be F> )are forthe moilpavt Young Wat.ton Girl s, (whom ihc I:a!ian Writer callsY)olci di Säle,) who by löme particu'ar Indüpoii'ion htüing intothis Mdancho-ly Madr.eßs, perfwade themfelves accordir.g to the Vulg.-r prejudicc, to havebeen Stung by zTaranuda. And I remember to have oblerved in Calabriaforne YVomen, who feised on by forne dich Accidents were counted (accordingto the coramon btlief of that Province) to be Poöefs’d with the Devii.

This brings to my mind'a terrible Evii, which osten cnough is observedin Calabria, and is called in their Language Coccio maligno. Itarisethon thesurface ot the Body, in the form of a (mali Speci, ot thebigncls of a Lupin.

It cauleth forne Faiti, and it it grow not foon Red thereupon, it in a veryshort time ccrtainly Kills. Tis the common Opinion of thole People, thatsuch a Distemper befals thole only, that have eaten Flelh of Animals Deadof themfelves : which Opinion I can from Expcricnce affirm to be falle. Soicfrequently falls out, that of many lfrange Effect?, we daily meet with,the true Laufe not being known, such an one is afiigned, which is ground-ed upon lome Vulgär pvejudice. And of this kind I esteemto be the Vul-gär belief of the Caule ofthat Distemper, which appears in thole that thinkthemselves Stung by Tarantula's. ’

owjaundi^"- ^LI. 1 here send you an account of my Patient Grace Dennis, of Braxtedtended lvitb ./» Magna, in this Ccunty of Effex. About Chr iß mas 1689. aster muchonI^^s^Orief and Trouble of Mind in the foregoing Autumn, the Jaundtfe beganrnieiDiie.n.u 1 to appear upon her: for which, aster having for about 9 Movths usedF ' lj8, many Medicines, which were told her by divers of her Friends and Ac-quaintance, but without Succels, She in Sept. 1690. applyed her felf tometo whom i adminitlred divers Medicines, famous in the most Celcbrated Au-thors forthe Cure of the yaundifi, and which I had osten used with fuccesiin the Cure ofthat Discale, yet to her they were of no Benefit. Aster which(he had the advice of several Lcarned Ehyfitians in the Country, and likewileforne in London-, but all that cou’d be done for her bath not yet had any Ef-fect ; for her Dilease yet continues, and her Body which used to be Plump andFlelhy, is now become Lean and Emaciatcd, almost like aSkeliton, and herAppetiteis littleanddepraved.

In May 1691. After an extraordinary Menstrua 1 Flux for about z Monthsshe began as soon as the Sun was down, to be deprived of her Sight by de-grees until it was quite Dark j when altho’ never so big a Fire or many Can-dles were in the Room, yet could she not dileern the Object (except a smallshining of Light) and so Ihe remained until the Morning as one Stone Blind,when by little and little, as the Lifp&f increased, herS/gir returned, until theSun arose, and then she recovered her pericdtstght.

And in this Case she continued until Äuguß 1692. when being returnedfrora Epfom, where she had been drinking the Waters for about a Month , her

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