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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