NAJA.
Naja tripudians.
Class
, Reptilia; Order,
Squamata; Suborder, Colubrina; Family, Elapidæ.
Preparation
, Tincture and triturations.
Authorities.
(Nos. 1 to 7,
Dr. Stokes’s provings, Br. Journ. of Hom., 11, p. 25, 1853.) 1, Dr. Stokes, proving by inoculation, some
(“a drop at least”) of the poison, received on sugar of milk,
was made into a paste with water and inserted in the arm; 2, effects of same preparation on
“Rosa,” aged nineteen; 3,
Stokes’s proving with 2d dil. (6 drops in 3 ounces of water, one dose of
half an ounce first day, two doses second day, one ounce fourth day),
and 3d dil, fifth, sixth, and seventh days; 4,
same, olfactions of 1st dil. first day, 8-12 globules of 2d dil. second,
third, and fourth days, 1 drop of 2d dil. fifth day, 2 drops sixth day,
3 drops tenth day, 6 drops in water seventeenth day; 5, “Rosa,” took 1 drop of 2d dil.; 6, same, proving two months later, 3 globules
of 4th dil. three times a day; 7,
same, four days later, took 6th dil. same way; 8,
Dr. Russell, Br. Journ. of Hom., 11, 593, took 1 grain of 2d dec. dil.
daily for six days; 9, same, three
months later, took same doses first, third, fourth, and fifth days; 10, Georges E. Stewart, aged twenty-four,
took 1st dil. night and morning for six days, from Russell; 10a,
same, took 3d dil. night and morning (twelve doses), except fourth
night, when he took Camphor; 11, Dr.
Craig, took 2d trit.; two doses of 1 grain each, first, second, third,
fourth, and one dose fifth days (took one dose of Bryonia 3d at 6 P.M.,
fourth day); 11a,
same, took 1st dil. once a day for four days, twice fifth day, and one
dose of Bell. sixth day; 11b, same, took 1st dil., one dose, first
and second days, two doses third and fourth days, one dose daily sixth
to twelfth day; 12, W. R., aged
twenty-seven, [Symptoms more or less previous to, but only slightly
present at time of proving: Skin dry and itching, especially on
undressing; chilblains; occasional pimples about chin and back of neck;
lips dry; frequent vexed mood, with disposition to find fault; frequent
dull, heavy sensation in forehead; sensation as if skull at forehead
were too tight; feels thin and starved, worse on waking in morning, and
during and after a walk in the air; sensitiveness of scalp (head
symptoms less during proving); wings of nose dry and sore; frequent cold
in head; eyes yellowish, often bloodshot; uneasiness and fulness in pit
of stomach; flatulence; constipation; voice often hoarse; frequent
hawking to detach tough mucus that is always swallowed; chest weak;
short breath and palpitation on running; frequent oppressive fulness
under sternum, as from tough mucus; back weak; a dull aching and numb
feeling in lower back, on stooping especially; heaviness of hands and
arms; perspires easily; veins of hands swell when hanging down.] took 1
st dil. first, second, third, tenth to fourteenth day; 12a,
same, took repeated doses of 1st and 3d dils. first to seventeenth day; 12b,
same, took 6th dil., twelve doses, in eleven days (has a cold, coryza,
cough, and hoarseness); 13, William
Gillow, aged twenty-seven, [Constantly troubled with pityriasis of
scalp, with much itching and soreness, worse in hot rooms, etc.; mealy
desquamation in other parts of skin; old hæmorrhoids, with extreme
pruritus; frequent severe flatulence.] took 1st dil. twice a day for six
days (took a dose of Nux v., for symptoms of cold, eighth day); 13a,
same, 1st dil. twice daily for four days, then once daily fifth, sixth,
seventh, ninth, and tenth days; 13b, same, took 2d dil. first day, 3d trit.
third and fifth days, 2d dil. seventh day, 1st, two doses, fourteenth
and sixteenth days; 14, Dr. A. C.
Pope, [During last few days, bowels costive and irregular; whenever I
feel more dyspeptic than usual, I have a slight cough on rising in the
morning.] took 1st dil. daily for seven days; 14a, same, took 3d dil. daily for seven
days; 14b,
same, took 6th dil. for seven days; 15,
John Landell aged twenty-six, took 1st dil. daily for seven days; 15a,
same, took 3d dil. daily for seven days, then daily from eleventh to
seventeenth day; 15b, same, took 6th dil. daily for seven
days; 16, Dr. Drysdale (no result
from 1st dil.), took 3d dil. for six days; 16a, same, took 1st dil., new preparation,
for six days; 17, Dr. Russell, too
1st dil. for seven days; 17a, same, took 1/100 grain of crude first
to fourth, seventh, and eighth days; 17b, same, took 1/100 grain crude every
morning for fifteen days; 18, Mrs.
R., aged twenty-seven, [Subject to congestion to the head, profuse
menses, leucorrhœa; nursing at time of proving. Since taking N.,
leucorrhœa entirely disappeared.] took 3d dil. for seven days; 19, M. C., a woman, aged thirty-eight, took
1st dil. for six days; 19a, same, took 3d dil. for six days, and
again, after six days, for four days; 19b, same, took 6th dil. for six days; 20, Dr. Stokes, Month. Hom. Rev., 1859, vol.
3 p. 162, proving on Mr. McSwinney, aged thirty-eight, with 2d dil., 3
to 12 drops daily, for seven days; 21,
(omitted); 22, Duffin, from Dr. R.
Russell (1788), a woman was bitten in leg; 23,
same, second case, a man was bitten in toe; 24,
a man was bitten on the ankle, from Russell; 25,
effects of bite on hand, ibid.; 26,
Gurling, was bitten on nose when partially intoxicated; 27, Chambers, Glasgow Med. Journ., 1819,
effects of bite on back of hand in a woman, from Russell; 28, Ireland, effects of bite of Coluber carinatus on hand, Med.-Chir. Trans.,
1813, p. 396 29, same, second case; 30, same, third case; 31, Buckland’s Curiosities of Nat. Hist.,
effects of inoculation with poison of the cobra through a raw spot near
the nail of a finger used to take off the skin of a rat that had been
killed by the snake; (32, omitted); 33, a woman was bitten on the toe, Hom.
Times, 1852, p. 195; 34, Hom. Times,
1852, p. 194, effects of bite in a man (was walked up and down for three
hours and a half, not allowed to stop; he also drank large quantities of
brandy); 35, Dr. Lounds, effects of
bite in leg, Month. Journ. of Med. Sci., 1854, p. 136; 36, Du Chaillu, Am. Hom. Obs., 1869, p. 168,
effects of bite in a man; 37,
Fayrer, Thanatophidia, effects of bite in a girl, aged seven; 38, same, in a man, aged forty-five, death in
fifteen minutes; 39, same, in a man,
aged thirty-two, death in three hours; 40,
same, in a boy, aged fifteen, death in ten hours; 41, same, in a man, aged twenty-five, death
in twelve hours; 42, same, in a man,
death in two hours; 43, same,
effects in a woman, Ed. Med. Journ., 1869, p. 425; 44, same, second case; 45, Dr. William H. Holcombe, U. S. Med. and
Surg. Journ. 1866, p. 234, given to a woman suffering from organic
disease of the heart, it produced a new symptom.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Temper good;
very excitable and playful, oftener than common (fifth day), [2]. ►
Is affected easily by a very little wine or alcoholic drink during the
week (after three days), [1]. ► His mind wandered, but at last he got
better, and was able to go out again; a short time after, having an axe
in his hand, going, as he said, to cut wood, he
suddenly split his own head in two; he had become insane, [36]. ►
Very slight emotion, pleasing or otherwise, brings a strong inclination
to tears (seventh day), [12a]. ► She cried, and seemed to suffer much
pain, [37]. ►
Dulness of spirits (after nine hours and a half, third day), [17]. ►
Rather dull in spirits, without sufficient cause (second day); great
depression of spirits (third day); very low in spirits (fourth day), [8]. ►
Sense of depression (soon, first day), [17b].
► Considerable depression of spirits,
and a feeling of inability to exertion of any kind, and a conviction
that all is going wrong; head very painful, and spirits very much
depressed (third day), [14a]. [10.] ►
Great depression of spirits this morning; everything for two or three
hours appeared to go wrong with me, and to be without remedy; being
called out of town in the afternoon somewhat suddenly, these feelings
went off in a great measure, though they did not entirely subside (sixth
day); considerable lowness of spirits; great inaptitude for exertion,
with sense of aching over the whole head; this continued more or less
all day (seventh day); feel to-day very low-spirited; cannot do
anything; got better towards evening (eighth day), [14a]. ► Great
depression of mind, with the distress about the generative organs
(fourth day), [13b]. ► Sadness or serious disposition
(third, fourth, and fifth days); sadness and
irresolution (sixth day), [3].
► Intense depression of spirits
usually accompanied the headache; this melancholy was of a peculiar
kind; I felt that everything that was done was done in a wrong way, and
could not be rectified; if I felt that I had some duty to perform, I had
at the same time a strong impulse not to do it, and was extremely
restless in consequence; I seemed to have an increased perception of
what I ought to do, but, at the same
time, an unaccountable inclination not to do it, to which I was
irresistibly compelled to yield; “I couldn’t help it, didn’t know
why, but couldn’t do it.” The moral symptoms were not present at
all during October; they were very distressing while taking the November
packet, and although present, were much less severe in December, [14]. ►
Felt melancholy; began to form images of possible
wrongs and misfortunes, over which the mind broods; very wretched at
times; in the evening (first day); yesterday and to-day is
very wretched; a slight cause sets him in a perfect agony of mental
suffering on another’s behalf; mind brooding over imaginary troubles; in
the evening he feels more himself, and loses much of his depression
(eighth day); makes himself imaginary troubles and wrongs, and frets
over them for two hours (tenth day); sad thoughts; with the pressure and
gagging in throat (eleventh day); spirits good; disposed for work; mind
active (reaction), (seventeenth day), [4].
► Increased evenness and cheerfulness
of temper, [7]. ► Irritable, restless (fourth day), [15]. ►
Temper quicker than usual (first day), [2].
► Inclined to be displeased with
everything (sixteenth day), [12a].
► Intellectual. ► Walked in open air; all dulness passed
off, and was succeeded by an unusual state of excitement and energy,
mental and physical, lasting the night, with a lively, waking state,
giving the sensation in morning of having been awake all night. Query,
reaction (first night); the state of excitement continued till evening,
slowly subsiding (second day), [12].
[20.] ►
Feel more fit for work to-day than I have at all (sixth day), [14a]. ►
Feeling so dull in the evening that I did not repeat the powder (first
day), [12]. ►
Feeling stupid and confused, [31].
► Forgetfulness (sixth day), [15a]. ►
Very forgetful (fifteenth day), [15a].
► Forgot everything for several
minutes, [31]. ► Memory confused (eighth day), [4]. ►
Absence of mind (after second dose, third day), [11]. ►
Consciousness all but, possibly quite, abolished (after thirty-five
minutes), [26]. ► Comatose, [41].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Confusion in the head (in less than an hour, and next morning), [25]. [30.]
► Slight confused feeling in head
(very soon), [10a]. ► Vertigo, lasting only a short time, and
by and by stounding pain in right
side of head (after second powder, third day), [10]. ► General
Head. ► Considerable
congestion to the head at midday (sixth day); increased, with fluid
discharge from the nose (seventh day), [12a].
► Head dull (after second dose, third
day), [11]. ►
Dulness in the head (after four hours, fourth day), [10]. ►
Dulness about head (sixth day), [13].
► Head feels heavy, with vertigo, or
rather dull, confused mental state (after two hours), [10]. ►
Heaviness of head (after one hour), [21].
► Instead of headache, felt rather a
dull heaviness (second day), [10].
► A feeling of hollowness over the
entire head, which continued for several days, and caused me to leave
off further provings (seventh day), [20].
[40.] ►
Sense of aching over the whole head (seventh day), [14b]. ►
Headache (eleventh, fifteenth, and sixteenth days), [15a]; in morning (seventh day), [5]; in evening (first day), [12]. ► Passed
a very uncomfortable night; slept much, but conscious of a headache
(seventh night), [13]. ► Slight headache (after second powder), [19b]; (after nine hours and a half,
third day), [17], etc. ► Very slight headache, more or less all
day, chiefly frontal and vertical (fourth day), [14b]. ► Very
slight headache, all day, which was pretty severe and throbbing for a
short time, about 3 P.M.; frontal headache (second day), [19]. ► “Very
bad headache, especially acute over the left eye, just like a
scald, for at least an hour,” soon after breakfast (fourth day), [19]. ►
Very bad headache, and stomachache all over (abdomen), at 9 P.M., but
probably owing to a jargonel pear, eaten in the former part of evening,
not usually so affected by so little fruit (third day), [19]. ►
Thoughts of giving over taking powders, on account of the violence of
the headaches caused by them (fourth day); very bad headache, on waking
in the morning (fifth day), [19]. ► Dull headache (first day), [10]; (first night), [15a]. [50.] ► Dull headache, worse over right eye
(seventh day), [15a]. ► A most oppressive headache, at 8.30 A.M.
(eighth day), [13]. ► Forehead. ►
Slight pain in forehead, soon (first night), [17a]. ►
Slight pain in left frontal protuberance (after a few minutes, first
day), [17]. ►
Rather severe and steady pain in left frontal region (soon), (seventh
day), [17]. ►
During the fourth and fifth days, but much more upon the fifth, had
considerable pain in the forehead, which woke me in the night, and I
woke on the morning of the sixth with this pain; the pain was attended
by fluttering of the heart, and was of a dull character, with occasional
stitches in the frontal protuberance, [9].
[The weather was cold and raw, and easterly winds prevailed; this might
aggravate the symptoms, but I never recollect having this headache from
any atmospheric cause.] ► Frontal
headache (fourth day), [15]. ► Frontal headache (second night); headache
continued nearly all day (third day); dull frontal headache, with a
feeling of weariness (fourth day); frontal headache all day, with
yawning and lassitude, (sixth day), [15].
► Headache above eyes (twelfth day), [19a]; till past midday (first day), [19]. ►
Slight frontal headache (sixth day), [14b].
[60.] ►
Slight frontal headache, with the dragging and weariness in the limbs
(after the first dose); went off (after the second dose), [6]. ► Slight
headache (frontal), which, however, is on the increase (after second
powder, fourth day), [10]. ► Slight frontal headache was a constant
symptom, [17b]. ► This evening, being in a very crowded
hall at a public lecture, a slight frontal headache came on, with nausea
and sour taste in the mouth; nostrils also more clogged up this evening;
slight cough with wheezing; these symptoms, however, are more
attributable, I imagine, to the heated atmosphere of the lecture hall
than to the cobra poison (fifth day), [14b].
► Slight headache above the eyes
(thirteenth day). ► Slight headache,
confined to the lower part of the brow (fourth day), [17a]. ►
Slight fulness and pain in upper part of forehead (after half an hour,
third day); in the morning (fifth day), [17].
► Excessive fulness, towards evening,
over the forehead and root of nose (sixth day), [12a]. ►
Slight headache across forehead, and tight feeling, with dryness of
throat (tenth day), [13a]. ► Constricted feeling across forehead, with
slight anterior headache; never accustomed to this in the afternoon
(after two hours, fifth day), [13a].
[70.] ►
Headache across eyes; peculiar oppression in forepart of head,
constricted feeling, went off after breakfast (second day); constricted
sensation across eyes, going off after breakfast (third day), [13a]. ►
Found on going to bed peculiar headache; dull constricted feeling across
forehead, with heaviness of eyes (second night); again the same slight
headache, with dryness of mouth and cold feet; no pain or inability to
think or study, but slight, dull, and constricted sensation about
forehead, from one temple to the other (after one hour and a half);
slight dulness again across forehead, with dry mouth (after eleven hours
and a half, third day), [13]. ► Occasional aching pains in forehead
throughout the day (second day), [10a].
► Severe headache, aching and frontal
(two hours and a half after second dose, fourth day), [10]. ► Very
severe aching pain across the forehead, but more particularly over each
temple, and an excessive weight over the upper eyelids; there is a
feeling of tightness across the vertex; this pain is very severe, but
felt a little relieved on going out, in the morning; head very painful;
the head continued painful in the same manner and same localities as
early in the morning, but more modified in degree as the day advanced;
the eyes are certainly the most painful, the pain is very much
aggravated by motion or exertion of any kind, the scalp feels sore to
touch; the headache was very much relieved by smoking a small pipeful of
very mild tobacco (third day); to-day the pain in head has been less, it
continued in the same localities, and tolerably severe until 2 o’clock,
when I took half a wineglass of pale brandy, which entirely dissipated
it; on taking a powder the headache immediately returned, though very
slightly (fourth day); headache, similar in every respect to that
mentioned on the third day, came on this morning on taking the powder,
and remained for two or three hours, when it passed off (fifth day);
very slight headache, chiefly over the right eyelid and in the right
temple (sixth day); slight headache, frontal, pain aching for an hour or
two this morning, but got quite well towards night (seventh day), [14a]. ►
Dull headache over eyes, worse over right, with the coryza (first
night), [15]. ► Severe dull aching frontal headaches,
with dull shootings (stoundings, I
can’t get a satisfactory term to describe them), (fourth day), [10]. ►
Headache, occupying the frontal region, immediately came on; it was a
kind of heavy oppressive aching (fifth day), [14]. ► Very
severe shooting frontal headache, worse on moving the head, from 4 to
6.30 P.M., probably, however, owing to a glass of wine before dinner,
and hasty eating of the latter, at an earlier hour than usual (fifth
day), [10]. ►
Frontal headache, dull, shooting (after second powder, sixth day), [10]. [80.]
► Darting pains running across the
forehead (second day), [17a]. ► Went to bed with severe, dull, stitchy
pain in forehead, preventing sleep (third night), [10]. ► Since
breakfast, sharp shooting pains from one temple to the other, relieved
in open air (twelfth day), [15a]. ► Slight throbbing headache above the eyes
(after first powder); not so severe (after second powder, first day), [19a]. ►
Severe throbbing frontal headache, in the afternoon (first day), [19]. ►
Sensation as if the brain of the forehead was loose (third day), [18]. ►
Temples. ► Awoke this
morning with a slight aching in both temples, and heaviness in the eyes;
this lasted for some two or three hours and went off (second day);
slight temporal aching, several times, in the evening (second day); felt
a similar pain in the head, on waking this morning; this pain has
continued in a very slight degree all day (third day), [14]. ► Slight
aching in the temples and across the forehead (fourth and seventh days),
[14]. ►
The most persistent and best marked symptom was severe headache, usually
accompanied by intense depression of spirits; the headache was very
severe, at times almost unendurable, and the melancholy equally
distressing; the headache was most marked, and usually began in the
right temporal region (also occupying the left, though in a less
degree), and involved the eye of the same side; the pain was a
deep-seated severe aching, occasionally shooting; it gradually extended
to a sense of dull aching over the forehead and vertex, but always
remaining most severe in each temple; the motion aggravated it
intensely; it was relieved by going into the open air, though but
slightly; smoking procured more marked relief, and alcoholic liquors
immediately dissipated it; this pain in the head was present whenever
the powders were taken, though most severe on the third and fourth days
of the November proving, [14]. ► A dull aching commenced about noon over
the right temple, and gradually extended to the forehead; it gradually
wore away during the afternoon (third day), [14b]. [90.] ► A few stitches in the left temporal
region (soon), [9]. ► Throbbing of temples, and disagreeable
fulness of head when lying (fourth day), [15].
► Vertex. ► Aching at the vertex, with coldness of
the feet (eighth day), [11b]. ► Parietals. ►
While driving in the gig, I felt a sudden pang of pain through the left
side of the head; it appeared to begin about the back of the head; it
lasted only a minute or two, and was not followed by anything, nor had
it any definite character (fourth day), [16a].
► Occiput. ► Dull shoots up occiput (third day), [1]. ►
External Head. ► A great
deal of scurf on the head, [17b]. ► Hair falls off very much, especially from
the crown (seventh and eighth days), [18].
[Hair has fallen off lately, previous to taking powders.] ► Scalp painfully sensitive (third day), [18].® 2000
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