Current Comment

Abstract

India to be confined to women even on •good dietaries who observed the purdah life of indoor existence. Thus sunlight has once more been demon¬ strated to be the enemy of disease. Current CommentTARANTULA TOXICITY Folk-lore abounds in stories of phenomenal mani¬ festations which often fail to survive the test of critical examination. Accounts of unexpected occurrences or unusual symptoms often grow like rolling snowballs, adding to their size with each step in the course of progress. Small effects may become magnified into great ones ; suspicions develop somehow into the dig¬ nity of probabilities or even real facts. New traditions seem to spring up from undiscovered sources. Some¬ thing of the nature of such mystic influences may account for the prevalent belief in the extreme danger associated with the tarantula. The fatal bite of these