SCOLOPENDRA.
Scolopendra (various species).
Animal kingdom: Class,
Myriopoda; Order, Chilopoda; Sub-order, Scolopendridæ.
Common name
, Centipede.
Authorities.
1,
Dr. H. C. Wood, Jr., Am. J. of Med. Sc., 1866, 2, p. 575, a girl of four
years was bitten by “S. heros,” death in six hours; 2, Rounsarelle, Nashville J. of Med. (Am.
Obs., 1870, p. 31), a man bitten on the arm; 3,
Sebastiany, Gaz. des Hôp., 1870 (S. J., 153, 314), two cases of bite by
“S. morsitans,” a girl on the finger and a man on the arm.►
Vertigo, [3]. ►
Headache, [3]. ► Nausea (after one hour and a half), [2]. ►
Vomiting of a pale-yellow glairy matter, which continued at short
intervals with increasing violence, until the child, in a convulsive
struggle, ceased to breathe, [1]. ► Vomiting, [3].
► Præcordial anxiety, [3]. ► Arm
greatly swollen, erysipelatous blush extending over half the arm; black
dotted impressions in two rows, three-quarters of an inch apart,
elevated with dark lines, extending across from dot to dot, five and a
half inches in length, thus showing the entrance of every foot; pain
deep and dull (after one hour and a half), [2]. ► Instant
complaint, which grew rapidly worse, which was described by the child as
being all over, [1]. ► A large red spot, becoming black, in the
middle of which there forms an eschar as large as a five-franc piece, [3]. [10.]
► The whole affection resembled a
malignant pustule, and was associated with swelling of the lymphatic
glands, [3]. ►
Violent itching, followed by violent pain in the bitten part, [3]. ► No
perspiration of the right arm for three months, [2].® 2000
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