Note 109 — Chapter II · DANCING MANIA IN ITALY.
B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington translation
This physician once saw three patients, who were evidently suffering from a malignant fever, and whose illness was attributed by the bystanders to the bite of the tarantula, forced to dance by having music played to them. One of them died on the spot, and the two others very shortly after. Ch. 7. p. 616.