These effects consisted of a feigned or imaginary disease known as tarantism, which was prevalent in Apulia and other portions of southern Italy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

"tarantism," which was supposed to originate in the bite of the tarantula.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

It is certain, however, that tarantism was very prevalent in earlier times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

Dr. Mead, above mentioned, gave a curious description of the symptoms of tarantism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

Many physicians and historians have written on this subject, and with singular unanimity have endorsed music as a curative agent for tarantism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

Music, as a cure for tarantism, 197-200; as a medicine, 189; at banquets, 180-184; at hospitals, 193; distasteful to some persons, 186; healing influence of, 172-200.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

Indeed, Dr.H. Chomet, who diligently investigated the matter, never succeeded in finding a case of tarantism, nor was he able even to obtain a glimpse of one of these insects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

One of the oldest documents on the subject of tarantism, Ferdinando Ponzetti's Sertum Papale De Venensis (1362), had suggested that the victims of shade-dwelling spiders were hostages to the music of the tarantula's bite, to its 'cantum tempore'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: January 29, 2006 - February 4, 2006 Archives] Reference

To cope with 'tarantism,' the name given to the disease that follows on the bite of the Italian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Spider] Reference

This form of "possession," then, passed out of the supernatural domain, and became known as "tarantism.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom] Reference

Almost simultaneous with the dance of ` ` St. With, '' there appeared in Italy and Arabia a mania very similar in character which was called ` ` tarantism, '' which was supposed to originate in the bite of the tarantula.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

"tarantism" of the Middle Ages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays in Rebellion] Reference