CROTALUS HORRIDUS.
C. Horridus, Linn. Order,
Crotalidæ of the Ophidian family of serpents. Common
names, Rattlesnake, Boiquira. Preparation,
Trituration of the virus with sugar of milk.
Authorities.
1,
effects of bite, taken from Hering, Wirkungen des Schlangengiftes, 1837;
2, C. Hering, effects of 1st and 2d
triturations, from ibid.; 3, Kummer,
from ibid.; 4, Lingen, ibid.; 5, Schmoler, ibid.; 6,
Wallace, ibid.; 7, Gross, ibid.; 8, Dr. Wilson, Am. Hom. Obs., 1872, p. 73,
effects of bite; 9, Dr. Horner, Am.
J. of Med. Sci., 8, p. 397, effects of bite; 10,
Dr. Phillips, Am. J. M. S., vol. 8, effects of bite; 11, Chicago Med. J., 1866 (N. Y. Med. J.),
effects of bite; 12, Dr. Stokes,
proving on an unmarried lady aged thirty-five, with the 3d dil., three
doses first day, repeated on the third day, also a dose of the 4th on
the tenth day; 13, Dr. Rivers,
Southern Med. Record (from Lond. Med. Rec., Dec., 1874), effects of
bite; 14, Dr. Piffard, N. Y. Med.
Rec., Jan. 1875, chronic, recurrent effects of bite; 15, Sir G. Lefevre, “On the
Nerves,” p. 329 (Month. Hom. Rev., 14, 194), Mr. Wallace, of Va.,
took all the poison from both fangs of a rattlesnake, made it into
pills, “bags, venom, and all,” and swallowed them, sometimes
at the rate of four a day.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Excessive
excitability; for example, while reading Humboldt’s lecture to
naturalists in Berlin, he was moved to tears, [4]. ► Sublime
ecstasy, [6]. ► Delirium, [1],
[13]. ►
*Delirium at night, [1].
► Delirium at night, from time to
time (seventeenth day), also the whole night, [1]. ►
Delirium, with convulsions, [1]. ► For several days, a certain dread of
selecting remedies, which usually is an agreeable occupation, [5]. ►
Depression, [1]. ► Depression and indifference to
everything, [1]. [10.] ►
Melancholy; misanthropic and indifferent, with sudden weakness,
headache, heartache, and excessive diarrhœa, [1]. ►
Anxiety, with restless heat, [1]. ► Apprehensiveness, [1]. ►
Indifference, with sudden weakness, [1].
► Most heavenly sensation; melancholy
was quickly changed into gay anticipations, [15]. [Followed by S. 349.] ►
Remarkable indifference, seems only half alive; lasting fourteen years
(chronic result of the bite), [1].
► Intellectual. ► Remarkable heaviness and dulness, the
first day, on account of which he is unable to express himself properly,
and hence is unable to make a note of several symptoms, [5]. ► Makes
mistakes in writing, cannot spell correctly, [4]. ►
Confused speech, [1]. ► His answers are disconnected, with cold
skin, [1]. [20.] ►
Disconnected answers, with coldness of the skin and rapid pulse,
[1]. ►
Remarkable weakness of memory, [4].
► Loss of senses, [1].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Dull confusion of the whole head, [4].
► Vertigo, [13]. ►
Vertigo, with nausea, [3]. ► Vertigo, with sopor, [1]. ►
Vertigo; headache in the forehead above the eyes, in the temples, worse
in the right; with nausea, vomiting of bile; is obliged to lie down;
together with constipation; better from walking in the open air, [2]. ►
Dizziness before the eyes, even to falling down, with dilated pupils,
earthy paleness, of the face, and blue rings around the eyes (first
day), [5]. ► General Head. ►
Rush of blood to the head, with convulsions, followed by death, [1]. [30.]
► Feeling of lightness in the head,
with pressure in the temples, especially in the left which makes him
bite the teeth together, [5]. ► Dull sensation in the head, [5]. ►
Pains through the whole head (immediately), [1]. ►
Headache, gradually increasing and decreasing, [5]. ► Headache,
extending into the eyes, [5].
► Headache, extending into the left
teeth, [5]. ►
Headache, shortly before going to sleep; especially very severe on
undressing, but disappearing in the morning after a good night’s sleep, [5]. ►
Headache, with melancholy, [1]. ► Forehead. ►
Pains in the forehead, [2]. ► Pains in the whole forehead, which became
steadily worse, and at last intolerable; afterwards they were somewhat
relieved, although they continued till towards evening (after half an
hour), [5]. [40.] ►
Tension in the muscles of the forehead and nape of the neck, [5]. ►
Pressive frontal headache, followed by sensation of nausea (after three
hours), [3]. ► Temples. ►
Muscular twitches in the temples, [4].
► Pains in the temples, [2]. ►
Several times, a drawing-pinching pain in the right temple, [5]. ►
Pressure in the temples, especially in the left, which makes him bite
his teeth together, with a feeling of lightness of the head, [5]. ►
Stitches in the left temple and whole left side of the head, lasting
five minutes (after three-quarters of an hour), [5]. ►
Momentary stitches and pains in the left temple, [5]. ► Dull
stitches in both temples, [5]. ► Severe painless pulsation in the temples,
[4]. ►
Vertex. [50.] ► Headache in the vertex; pressive, comes
on in the afternoon and lasts till night, for three days (after
eighteenth day). On the fourth day it changed to forenoon, with heat and
flushing of the face, [12]. ► Sides. ►
Aching difficult to describe in the right side of the head, as though he
would be seized with a violent headache, without its amounting thereto
(after two hours), [5]. ► Shaking and wavering in the left upper
part of the head, especially on ascending steps or walking rapidly, [5]. ►
Alternations of various kinds of pains in the left side of the head, as
for example, drawings, pressure, pinchings, tension, and bruised pain,
which extends into the teeth and orbits, [5].
► Occiput. ► Dull headache in the occiput, [4]. ►
Pain as from a blow in the occiput, especially occurring on lying down
again after rising, which he had experienced several years previously,
now reappears, [7]. ► External Head. ► Violent itching of the scalp, [4]. ►
Violent itching of the scalp, with a large quantity of dandruff, [4].
EYE.
►
Objective. ► Eyes muddy
and heavy, next morning, [9]. ► Red watery eyes (after one hour), [1]. [60.]
►► *Yellow color of the eyes;
frequently of the whole body, [1]. ►
Blue rings about the eyes, with pale face, [5]. ► Blood
exudes from the eye, [1].
► Blood flows from the eyes, ears,
and nose, at times, [1]. ► Dryness of the eye, [5]. ► The
eyes feel dry, [5]. ► Sudden violent drawing pain from the
vertex into the right eye, in the evening, [1]. ► Brow and
Orbit. ► Pains above the
eyes, [2]. ► *Pressure and oppression above the eyes,
[5]. ►
Pressure above the right eye, nausea and vertigo, repeated for several
days, at different times, [3]. [70.] ►
Pressure above the left eye, with vertigo and sensation of nausea on
moving; the pain is especially felt over the eyes, particularly the
right, not continuous, paroxysmal, jerklike, [3]. ►
Pressure deep in the orbits, behind the ears, and in the nasal bones, so
that, as with the pressure in the temples, he is obliged to bite the
teeth together, [5]. ► Fine prickling and stinging above the
left eye, as with fine needles, [5].
► Lids. ►
Dark redness of the left upper lid, with dryness and burning within the
eyes and redness of the canthi, [5].
► Eyes almost closed (after
twenty-six hours), [10]. ► Itching in the canthi, [4]. ► Lachrymal
Apparatus. ► Frequent
lachrymation and momentary disappearance of vision, especially in damp
weather, [7]. ► Ball. ►
Pain in the eyeball on moving the eye, like a pressure, and as if the
eye were too dry internally, [5]. ► Vision. ►
Dimness of vision, [13]. ► Momentary disappearance of vision, with
profuse lachrymation, especially in damp weather, [7]. [80.] ► Vanishing of vision, while reading, [5].
EAR.
►
Objective. ► Bleeding from
the ears, [1]. ► External. ►
Bruised feeling in the lobules of the ears, [5]. ► Internal.
► Heat in the ears, [5]. ► Heat in
the right ear, with bruised sensation in the lobules of the ears, [5]. ►
Stopped sensation in the right ear, and drawing within both ears,
painful in the right, with heat and sensation as though earwax would run
down into the mouth, [5]. ► Drawing in both ears, with stoppage of
them, [5]. ►
Drawing in the right ear, with painfulness of the whole left side of the
head, and paralyzed feeling of the left jaw, [5]. ► Painful
drawing in the right ear, with sensation of heat in it, [5]. ► Hot,
tickling sensation, as though earwax were in both ears, [5].
NOSE.
[90.]
► Violent sneezing, once at a time;
with a stitch in the right side of the chest, near the shoulder-joint,
followed by pains in the bones of the chest, [5]. ► *Bleeding
from the nose and all the orifices of the body, [1].
FACE.
►
Objective. ► Paleness of
the face, as in faintness, [4]. ► Discolored face, [1]. ► Earthy
face, with vertigo, [5]. ► *Yellow color of the face, [1]. ►
Sickly yellow color of the face (chronic result), [1]. ► Face
leaden-colored, immediately, [1].
► Leaden color of the face, lasting
during life, [1]. ► Swelling of the face, of the whole head,
and body, [1]. [100.] ►
Face somewhat bloated, next morning, [9].
► Subjective. ► Pressive-drawing pains in the bones of
the face, first in the right maxilla and zygoma, then in the left; then
in both at the same time, [5]. ► Lips. ►
Trembling lips, with weakness and faintness, [1]. ► Lips
and throat dry, without thirst, [12].
► Jaws. ►
Cramp in the jaws, [1]. ► Spasmodic contraction of the jaws, with
swelling of the hand and arm, and other dangerous symptoms, [1]. ►
Bruised pain in the whole right lower jaw and in the teeth, [5].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► The teeth are
loose in their sockets, [1]. ► Inclination to press the tongue against
the lower incisors, with crumbling of them on the inside, [4]. ► Pain in
the teeth, coming from the larynx, [5].
[110.] ►
Sudden, very transient pain shooting into the right lower back teeth; it
shoots up and down in them several times, and then disappears (first
day), [5]. ►
Violent shooting downward, almost like a blow, in an upper back tooth;
immediately disappearing (second day), [5].
► Teeth and jaws seem bruised, [5]. ►
Gums. ► Gums white
(fourth and subsequent days), [12].
► *Bleeding of the gums, [1]. ►
Tongue. ► Tongue red and
sore (fourth and subsequent days), [12].
► Brown tongue, [1]. ► Tongue
brown and swollen, so that it closes the throat, [1]. ►►
*Swelling of the tongue, [1].
► *Swelling of the tongue till there is
no more room in the mouth, with inflammation of it, [1]. [120.]
► *Tongue swollen to nearly twice the
normal size, [11]. ► *Tongue tumid (after twenty-six hours), [10]. ►
General Mouth. ► Tickling
of the palate and fauces, [4]. ► Saliva. ►
Accumulation of saliva, obliging him to swallow, [5]. ► Taste.
► Sourish taste in the mouth, after
the usual breakfast, [5]. ► Speech. ►
Articulation indistinct (after twenty-six hours), [10]. ► Loss
of speech and of the senses, [1]. ► Speechless, without moving, trembling
pulse, [1]. ►
Unable to speak; it seems as though the tongue and whole throat were
tightly constricted, [1].
THROAT.
►
Dryness of the throat, with great thirst (after one hour), [1]. [130.]
► *Throat dry, with thirst
(fourth and subsequent days), [12].
► Sensation in the throat as though
earwax were running down, with heat in the ear, [5]. ► Sudden
attack of sore throat, and bronchial catarrh, in the evening, which went
away the next morning, and returned at night, [12]. ►
Painful rawness in the throat, [5].
► Tickling in the pit of the throat,
as if in the trachea, provoking cough without expectoration; after some
days simple tickling without cough, [4].
► Pharynx. ► Tickling in the pharynx, [4]. ► Swallowing.
► Frequent swallowing of saliva, with
sensation as though the neck were compressed, without dyspnœa, [5]. ►
Deglutition impeded to some extent (after twenty-six hours), [10]. ►
External Throat. ► Larynx
is painful to touch (second day), [5].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Appetite bad
(first and second days), [12]. ► Thirst. [140.]
► Thirst during the fever, [1]. ►
Great thirst was an attendant symptom from the first, so much so that
previous to my arrival she had allayed it with an immoderate quantity of
water, [10]. ► *Unquenchable burning thirst, [1]. ►
Eructation. ► Eructations
tasting of the food, [5]. ► Eructations of a sour, acrid fluid, after
eating white bread (fourth day), [5].
► Rancid eructations the whole
afternoon (fourth day), [5]. ► Scraping rancid sensation, extending down
the œsophagus to the stomach, with pressure in the pit of the stomach, [5]. ►
Heartburn. ► Heartburn
after the usual light supper, [5].
► Heartburn at 4 P.M., lasting the
whole evening, [5]. ► Heartburn the whole day, especially in
the afternoon, with a feeling as if the whole œsophagus up to the mouth
were full of rancid food, with eructations tasting of the food, [5]. ►
Nausea and Vomiting. [150.]
► Nausea, [14]. ►
Nausea, relieved by vomiting, [1].
► Nausea, soon after taking it,
coming on by paroxysms, lasting till noon, especially while walking or
standing, relieved by sitting, [3].
► Nausea and vertigo with the
headache, [3]. ► Nausea with headache, [2]. ► Nausea,
with sensation as though he must vomit, which, however, he is unable to
do in spite of efforts (first day), [5].
► Nausea amounting to vomiting
(immediately after a bite), [1]. ► Nausea and vomiting, [13]. ► Nausea
and vomiting very decided, and always coming on very soon after the
bite, [1]. ►
Nausea, with a sensation as though something rancid rose in the
œsophagus, and remained in the upper part of the chest, [5]. [160.] ► Nausea with coldness of the body, [1]. ►
Nausea with cold skin, [1]. ► Extreme nausea and vomiting on the least
exertion (after twenty-six hours), [10].
► Vomiting preceded the faintness, [1]. ►
Vomiting follows violent pains in the forehead, [1]. ►
Vomiting with vertigo, [3]. ► Vomiting with headache, [1], [2]. ► Vomiting with thirst, [1]. ► Sudden
vomiting, [1]. ► Constant vomiting, [11]. [170.] ► Vomiting severely, [8]. ► Vomiting of
food, [1]. ► *Violent vomiting of food for several days after
a meal, [1]. ► *Green vomiting, [1]. ►
Vomiting of a green fluid, with great pain in the chest, [1]. ►
Vomiting of very bitter bile, [2].
► Vomiting of blood, [1]. ► Stomach
could retain only jellies, brandy, and coffee (fifth day), [1]. ►
*Stomach so irritable that it is unable to retain anything, [1]. ►
Stomach. ► *Intolerance of the
clothing about the epigastric region and beneath the hypochondria, not
noticed previously or subsequently with the same clothing, [5]. [180.]
► *Painfulness in the pit of the stomach,
[1]. ►
Pains in the stomach, [1]. ► Pains in the stomach after breakfast and
dinner (fifteenth day), [12]. ► Burning pain in the epigastrium for half
an hour, when it ceased after a stool (tenth day), [12]. ►
Fulness and pressure in the stomach were relieved by the medicine (first
day), [12]. ►
Pressure in the stomach, with discomfort in the epigastric and præcordial
regions, as though he had eaten too much, similar to the sensation
experienced before fainting (after a few minutes), [5]. ► Weight
on stomach and chest (third and subsequent days), [12]. ►
Breakfast lies heavy all day (third day), [12].
► Sticking in the pit of the stomach,
[4]. ►
Stomach sore and tender on rising in the morning (fourth and subsequent
days); worse after food (eleventh day), [12].
[190.] ►
Soreness returned in the epigastrium, extending upwards under the
sternum (fifteenth day), [12]. ► Throbbing at the pit of the stomach, with
rancid sensation in the stomach, [5].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Pain in
the left side of the abdomen, like cuttings through the spleen after
violent running, aggravated by deep inspiration (first day); the same
pain remains on the second day after a larger dose, but is not so
severe, [5]. ► Umbilical. ►
Pains internally in the umbilical region, like a violent burning (first
day), [5]. ►
Pressive aching in the middle of the abdomen, beneath the umbilicus, as
though it were too full, [5]. ► General Abdomen. ► Swelling of the whole abdomen, [1]. ►
Inflammation of the viscera of the abdomen, [1]. ►
Flatulency and eructations (third and subsequent days), [12]. ►
Violent pain in the course of the colon at 11 1/2 A.M.; (next day), [9]. ►
Burning pains in the abdomen, lasting several days, with great
sensitiveness especially to touch, [1].
[200.] ►
Violent burning pain in the abdomen, [1].
► Tension in the abdomen, painful to
touch, with burning pain, [1]. ► Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. ► In the night she was awakened by violent
burning pain in the hypogaster, going through to the sacrum (tenth day),
[12]. ►
The inguinal glands on that side were much enlarged (after twenty-six
hours), [10].® 2000
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