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Tarantulas

Images

  • Anatomy, medicine and botany; top to bottom, arteries of the stomach, sternum, tarantula, scorpion; bottom right, sassafras. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • People dancing the tarantella and playing music as an antidote to a tarantula bite. Etching.
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Catalogue

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    Storia biomedica del tarantismo nel XVIII secolo / Gino L. Di Mitri.

    Di Mitri, Gino Leonardo. | Date: 2006
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    La tarantola spagnola : empirismo e tradizione nel XVIII secolo / Pilar León Sanz ; traduzioner do Ilaria Gesi.

    León Sanz, Pilar. | Date: 2008
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    De phalangio apulo opusculum : in quo pleraque historicè, pleraque philosophicè de hoc insecto, ejusque miro veneno enarrantur, ac discutiuntur. / Authore D. Ludovico Valletta Monaco Cœlestino.

    Valletta, Ludovico. | Date: MDCCVI [1706]
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    Estudio médico del veneno de la tarántula : según el método de Hahnemann precedido de un resúmen histórico del tarantulismo y tarantismo, y seguido de algunas indicaciones terapéuticas y notas clínicas / por José Nuñez.

    Nuñez, José, 1805-1879. | Date: 1864
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    A mechanical account of poisons in several essays / By Richard Mead.

    Mead, Richard, 1673-1754. | Date: 1756
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