Tarentula
Allen, Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, 1879, Vol. X, p. 637
J. Heber Smith, M.D., New England Med. Gaz., New Ser., vol. i, 1879, p. 139. The tarentula by which Dr. Sherman was poisoned, came through the mail, and decomposition had undoubtedly commenced at the time the virus was imbibed into the system, and hence the symptoms in his case were such as might come from the scalpel or any other kind of animal poisoning, and therefore the symptoms reported cannot be reliable. (See authority. No. 16, in Val. IX, of the Encyclopedia.)