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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: tunes have been noted, those quickest to afford relief. There is
medical choreography, medical music. And have we not the
tarentella, a lively and nimble dance, bequeathed to us perhaps by
the healing art of the Calabrian peasant?
Must we take these queer things seriously or laugh at them? From
the little that I have seen, I hesitate to pronounce an opinion.
Nothing tells us that the bite of the Tarantula may not provoke, in
weak and very impressionable people, a nervous disorder which music
will relieve; nothing tells us that a profuse perspiration,
resulting from a very energetic dance, is not likely to diminish
the discomfort by diminishing the cause of the ailment. So far
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