tested. The venom contains several compounds, here's a quote from the emedicine.com site: Brown recluse venom, like many of the other brown spider venoms, is cytotoxic and hemolytic . It contains at least 8 components, including enzymes such as hyaluronidase, deoxyribonuclease, ribonuclease, alkaline phosphatase, and lipase. Sphingomyelinase D is thought to