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...Loxosceles laeta -a poisonous South American spider-has been the object of an intensive search and destroy campaign by the museum staff since 1962, and no one's sure that they've gotten them...
Despite their ordinary appearance, the spider's bite produces a necrotic lesion, in which the skin and flesh in the area around the wound dies, decays, and falls away. These lesions, if not treated can result in loss ofa limb-or, in rare cases, death...
Levi said that he knew of only one possible spider victim. In 1960, a man was treated for a necrotic lesion but his case was not linked to the spiders for some time because the spiders had not yet been discovered and the lesions only develop some 15 to 20 days after the bite...
LOUIS XI, THE UNIVERSAL SPIDER by Paul Murray Kendall. 464 pages. Norton...
...pure fortune), who appeared at the last moment to rally Charles' forces and save the country. But it was from the Dauphin, Louis, that leadership came to knit up the raveled threads of French life after St. Joan's battlefield miracle. Hung with epithets ("The universal spider," which referred to the scope and stickiness of his machinations, was one of the mildest), he eventually took his place in history as Louis XI, a giant and an ogre, a bloodstained, gloomy tyrant who forged a unitary state out of warring fragments...