Abstract
Few diseases fascinated doctors in early-modern Europe more than tarantism, the affliction that resulted from the bite of the tarantula. Its victims would often be bitten while they slept in the mid-day heat of the summer sun. Sometimes immediately, sometimes a few days later, they would experience a strange complex of symptoms, including pains, breathlessness, palpitations, thirst, emotional lability, and unusual sexual urges. Even more dramatically, those suffering from the condition developed an irresistible urge to dance to the point of exhaustion.
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