TOXICOPHIS.
Toxicophis pugnax, B. and G.
Animal kingdom.
Class
, Reptilia.
Order
, Ophidia.
Common name
, Moccasin.
Authorities.
1,
Wm. Ingalls, Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. 27, 1842, p. 170, a
strong healthy man was bitten on the right ankle; 2, Wm. Stockbridge, Bost. Med. and Surg.
Journ., vol. 29, p. 42, Mr. — was bitten on the leg when he was ten
years old; 3, same, a second case.
FACE.
►
Countenance somewhat anxious (after one hour), [1].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Right leg œdematous, considerably larger
than the left (after one hour), [1].
► A few drops of a limpid fluid came
from the wounds (after one hour), [1].
► The leg became painful and swelled
rapidly, the swelling extending to the hip, attended with high
irritative fever (after half an hour), [2].
► For several years the pains were
confined to the knee of the limb bitten; in a few years it left the knee
and seized the hip, and finally it attacked the shoulder, the last
attack being very slight, [2].
PULSE.
►
Pulse accelerated, full, regular, easily compressible (after one hour), [1].
GENERALITIES.
►
For the last eighteen years he has had an annual recurrence of symptoms,
attended with severe pain, but not accompanied with swelling; it
occurred at precisely the same time of the year, continued several days,
but decreasing in severity every succeeding year, [2]. ► Every
year the symptoms have returned with less intensity and with an absence
of swelling, [3]. ► Skin rather dry (after one hour), [1].® 2000
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