A natural history of spiders. And other curious insects / illustrated with fifty three copper plates, engraved by the best hands, by Eleazar Albin.

  • Eleazar Albin
Date:
1736
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Credit: A natural history of spiders. And other curious insects / illustrated with fifty three copper plates, engraved by the best hands, by Eleazar Albin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pen gh wai Kise BE) bile, of legs, af, this, igi te was gs baiaihlaves with a {mall black: mark) acrofs- the. “Upper end of the back: its belly..of a blackith colour,. Jt. was taken i inthe fields, in the beginning of, April, The) eyes. are. fo, fmall, that ic could not be perceived hav Many it had), or. Fhe manner of ere i ase He VII. Miu Godan as was sall over co a light hait-colour,. pone a: black {pot on the upper fide. of: its belly, the: under fide of which. was of an ath colour ; it was taken in the fields, in the ‘beginning of April, rmnning among the leaves and dead grals. mnie Pr elk atl malin iatiiaonhd Witt: sans Oe estolioon rm Hom pp 2 'T urs Spider was of a dark colour, the upper tide of the belly bead finely marked with a row. of. circular {pots froma the back to the end of the tail with a {colloped, line on each fi de ; the back was dark on,each fide, and light in the middle, It had two eyes ftanding, as they ate placed i in; the Plate, over the head of the Spider. Its feelers were long and flender; as, are all thofe: of the female Spidets, the male having globular bunches or knobs at the ends of. their horns or, feelers : the young ones are marked exactly like the old ones ; ; only. they look very pale which makes them appear as if they were. aed but may be eafily known. | This j is. one of the houfe Spiders, whole. vertues are excellene in the cure of, intermitting fevers, when. the bark. and. other remedies — have failed, as I have often. experienced on feveral, both old and young 5 the ufe of which I will now publith for the benefit of the poor and country people, who are remote from the help of phyficians, The Ufe. “ 8. As much of the clean web of the houfe Spider as “the weight of two fctuples ; Mithridate two drams ; mix and give B 2 vy qe
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