TARENTULA.
Lycosa Tarentula.
Animal kingdom
.
Class
, Myriopoda.
Order
, Araneideæ.
Common name
, Tarantula.
Preparation
, Tincture of the living
spiders.
Authorities.
(1
to 8, from Georgius Baglivi,
Dissertatio de Anat. Morsu et Effectibus Tarantulæ, Romæ, 1695,
Antwerp, 1715, cap. 6). 1, general
statement; 2, a woman was bitten on
the right leg in 1689; 3, case of
another woman; 4, bite of black
scorpion on the bare leg, death in a few hours; 5,
a young man ate a melon in which a scorpion had been lying, death on the
third day; 6, Franciscus Mustellus,
was bitten on the left hand by a tarantula, in July; 7, Epiphanio Ferdinando, ex obs. sua 87,
Petrus Simeon Messapienfils, was bitten in the left hypochondrium by a
tarantula; 8, a physician in Naples
was bitten in the left forearm in Aug., 1693, by tarantulæ brought from
Apulia; 9, Stephen Storace, Med.
Museum, vol. 2, 1763, p. 350, a ploughman was bitten; 10, Dr. Francesco, Mazzolani Observatore
Medico (Lancet, 1826, p. 129), a boy, æt. fifteen, was bitten on the
second toe of the left foot; 11, M.
Rinzi, Journ. Hebdom. (Lond. Med. Gaz., 1833, p. 848), general effects; 12, Dr. Ferramoson, Obs. Med. de Napoli, 1834
(A. H. Z., 8, 297), effects of swallowing a tarantula with grapes; 13, Dr. Nunez (translated by J. A. Terry,
M.D., from the original work, and its French translation with notes and
additions by Dr. J. Perry, North Am. Journ. of Hom., New Ser., vol. 2,
p. 387), provers, physicians, Messrs. Saurez Monge, Fernandez del Rio,
Tejero, Tejedor, Cuesta, Dubost, J. Perry, and Hernandez Ros; under
direction of Dr. Cuesta, two girls, æt. eighteen and twenty-two years;
under Dr. Iturralde, two girls, æt. thirteen and fifteen years; under
Dr. Alvarez Gonzalez. a woman æt. forty years; under M. Chatagnier, a
woman, æt. thirty-three years, and another of fifty years, passing
through the change of life, dilutions used, 3, 6, 12, 200; duration of
action, from six to eight weeks; 14,
Prof. J. Gross., Gaz. Med. Ital. (Am. Obs. vol. 7, 1870, p. 32), effect
of bite on the hand; 15, M. O. H.
Hardenstein (Am. Journ. of Hom. Mat. Med., vol. 4, 1870, p. 106), a
negro girl, æt. eighteen years, was bitten a little to right of left
patella; 16, J. Heber Smith (New
Eng. Med. Gaz., vol. 10, 1875, p. 241), reported from letters by Dr. J.
T. Sherman. Dr. Sherman killed tarantula by immersion for twenty-four
hours in alcohol; after removing and drying it, he noticed at the end of
a leg a drop of liquid, which he wiped off with a wooden tooth-pick; a
few minutes later he discovered himself rolling the tooth-pick between
his thumb and forefinger, on the latter of which was a recent scratch.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► *Paroxysm of
insanity; she presses her head and pulls her hair; rests
about six minutes, and then she begins again, with restlessness,
complaining, and threatening; strikes her head with her hands, scratches
herself, does not answer when questioned; threatening manners and
speech; restlessness of the legs;
strikes her body, continues threatening; deep anguish, her clothes annoy
her; continual restlessness, threatening words
of destruction and death; she believes she is insulted;
general trembling; pain in abdomen, relieved by pressure with her hands;
she seems to listen, and answers with words and gesticulations; a
mocking laughter, and joy expressed in her countenance. She comes out of
this attack with a severe headache, eyes staring and wide open; she sees
small figures hovering before her eyes, and moves her hands, [13]. ►
Insanity on account of an unfortunate love, [13]. ► Great
agitation, [10]. ► *Great excitement caused by music; one hour
after it, general and copious perspiration, [13]. ►
Dementia, with individuals inclined to sadness, and of a gloomy
disposition, [13]. ►► *Hysteria, [13]. ► Severe
attack of hysteria, lasting half an hour; increased by moaning; relieved
by sighing, [13]. ► Hysteria, with bitter belching. Repeated
yawning, which lasted from a quarter to half an hour, [13]. ►
Beginning of insanity; they sing, dance, and cry, without fever, [13]. [10.]
► Ludicrous and lascivious hysteria
in a woman of twenty-nine years; the patient had to be restrained by
force, [13]. ►
Visions of monsters or animals, that frightened him, [13]. ► Vision
of different things not present, as faces, insects, ghosts, etc. The
colors, red, yellow, and green, and particularly black, produce heavy
mist before the eyes. Hallucinations, sees strangers in the room, [13]. ►
Nervous crisis, more intense with
women and girls, [13]. ► Feigned paroxysms; a girl simulating
fainting and insensibility, looks sideways to watch the effect produced
on those around her, [13]. ► Hysteria, with crossness, [13]. ► *Great
taciturnity and irritability; desire to strike himself and others,
[13]. ►
Excessive gayety (in a young girl, fifteen years old, nervo-lymphatic
temperament, who commenced to menstruate). Laughing at the slightest
cause, [13]. ►
Fourteen days after taking the medicine, the happy mood reached the
borders of mania; the disposition to joke and laugh was extreme, [13]. ►
Joy and strong emotion, with trembling, when seeing beloved friends or
persons, [13]. [20.] ►
The fourth day of taking the medicine, the moral troubles were relieved;
gayety and disposition to laugh, [13].
► Very good disposition the whole
day, [13]. ►
Happy mood and gayety in the street, disappearing on coming indoors and
replaced by a deep sadness, [13]. ► Better disposition and mood soon after
taking the medicine; little inclination to be angry, [13]. ► *Desire to
joke, to play, and to laugh; extreme gayety, [13]. ► Lively
and satisfied; disposition to joke, [13].
► *Singing until becoming hoarse and
exhausted, [13]. ► The musical air called
“Tarantella,” charms and pleases the person; he keeps time
with his head, trunk, and limbs, [13].
► Music cheers up, amuses, and
relieves; the prover perspires, and experiences a general bruised
feeling which disappeared with one dose of Zincum 200th, [13]. ► The
patient laughs, dances, runs, and gesticulates, without noticing he is
an object of astonishment, [12]. [30.] ► *Fits
of nervous laughing, [13].
► Laughter, followed by crying, with
trembling of the limbs, [13]. ► Laughter that nothing can stop, followed
by screams, [13]. ► Stupid laughing, followed by hiccough and
spasms, [13]. ► Lamentation, with oppressive pain in the
heart, as if a misfortune had befallen her. The inferior extremities are
cold, with cramps, [13]. ► Weeping, with oppression and pain in the
heart, as from a misfortune; cold and cramps in the lower extremities, [13]. ►
Crying and yawning, with a feeling of weakness at the pit of the
stomach, [13]. ► Crying spells without cause, [13]. ►
Crying and moaning by the least contradiction; consoling words
aggravate, [13]. ► Crying and moaning during the night, and
getting up from bed, with severe headache, and oppression in the cardiac
region, [13]. [40.] ►
Excessive grief, accompanied in the afternoon by thoughts of death, [13]. ►
Grief without any cause, [13]. ► Deep grief and affliction, with general
trouble, nausea, and dizziness, compelling to lie down, [13]. ► *Profound
grief and anxiety; general trouble, uneasiness, and nausea,
with dizziness, compelling to lie down, [13].
► Sadness, dejection, and
discouragement; ceasing during the evening, when eating, [13]. ► Sad,
cross, and need of lying down, [13].
► Sadness, lamentation, as if a
misfortune had befallen him; with necessity of changing position and
moving, [13]. ► Sadness, silent, with heaviness on the
head, and sleepiness; yawning with muscular debility and dulness; bad
taste in the mouth and coated tongue, [13].
► (The indifference, the disgust for
everything, and sadness produced by this medicine were present,
particularly from morning until 3 P.M., with a marked aggravation after
the middle of the day. From 3 P.M., until evening, the gay disposition
returned again), [13]. ► (Sadness, grief, melancholy, and moral
depression, are not only almost constant symptoms of the sting of
Tarantula, but they have been also present, in a striking manner, during
the different provings of this medicine), [13].
[50.] ►
Not satisfied, desire of crying, in the afternoon, as if there was a
very deep grief, [13]. ► Profound melancholy; sadness, with tears.
(Relieved by Pulsat. 1000th). Then follows a ravenous appetite, longing
for articles which were not relished before, [13]. ►
Worried and greatly vexed, with much weeping, as if one could not
realize something earnestly desired, [13].
► Desire of lying down without any
light, and without being spoken to, [13].
► The patient presently becomes
gloomy and morose, then falls into a state of moping, which can scarcely
be dispelled, [11]. ► Fear of getting “typhus fever,”
[13]. ►
Impatience, restlessness, and cross; strong desire to go to business, [13]. ►
*Cross, tendency to get angry and to speak abruptly; is obliged to move
the limbs, with tearing and pressing pains in the stomach,
and in the left side of the chest; great thirst, with necessity of
introducing his fingers into the mouth, [13].
[60.] ►
Irritable and cross at the least contraction, [13]. ► Great
irritability, rage, fury, loss of reason, desire to strike himself and
those who prevent it. Skin smarts after scratching. (Relieved by Rhus
tox.), [13]. ►
Cross, with a good appetite, [13].
► Change of temper, in a good-natured
man, to the point of becoming intolerable; under the influence of sexual
excitement he showed a better disposition and mood, [13]. ► Ennui,
crossness, easily made angry, contrary to his habit and disposition, [13]. ►
From the first there was an indescribable melancholy, anguish, and
restlessness; peevishness, the attendants could do nothing to suit me;
great haste in whatever I under took, from a constant fear that
something would happen to prevent my finishing it; I would start up
suddenly, and hastily change my position, through fear that something
would fall on me; when walking I would stop short or suddenly throw my
head to one side, through fear of striking it against some imaginary
object which appeared to be suspended a few inches above my head. Great
fear of an imaginary impending calamity. Great desire to be alone, with
fear of being alone, even during daylight. Frightful visions as soon as
the eyes were closed, with inability to sleep, [16]. ►
Changeable mood, passing suddenly from sadness to gayety; from fixed
ideas to uneasiness of mind, [13].
► Alternated sorrow and gayety, with
return of strength. The good effect of music continues, followed by a
copious perspiration, [13]. ► Indifference. In the evening indifference
about what is going on around; no attention paid to conversation, even
if it be most interesting; cannot think about what has been said, [13]. ►
Indolence and muscular weakness; yawning and stretching; dark, sad
thoughts, increasing until afternoon, when, after an agreeable emotion,
they changed into an excessive joy, which lasted all the evening, [13]. ►
Intellectual. [70.] ► Dulness; the patient does not wish to
answer the questions asked, [13]. ► Ennui, alternating with mirth, [13]. ►
Weakness of memory; indolence for intellectual labor, [13]. ► Little
intelligence and poor memory, [13].
► Absence of mind, yawning and
moaning, followed by cough, [13]. ► Afterwards he remembered hardly anything
that had happened to him, [9]. ► Loss of memory, accompanied with good
nature; changeable mind, tears, singing, and irresoluteness. (In a
woman, twenty-six years old, who complained of violent sexual appetite),
[13]. ►
Complete loss of memory; she does not understand the questions addressed
to her; she does not know the persons whom she sees every day; cannot
say her prayers. Afterwards she is cheerful, followed by deep sorrow;
feels like crying, sobbing, palpitation of the heart, oppression at the
chest, headache, burning heat, and general perspiration, [13].
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. ► Giddiness, [11]. ►
Vertigo on walking, [13]. [80.] ►
Vertigo after breakfast, with a bad taste in the mouth, [13]. ► Sudden
vertigo, in the air, on coming downstairs; repeating several times, [13]. ►
Transient vertigo during the night, [13].
► Vertigo, preceded by gastric
symptoms, aggravated by carrying anything heavy on the head, [13]. ►
Vertigo, rush of blood to the head, which feels heavy; sickness at the
stomach, [13]. ► Different kinds of vertigo, and so severe
that it makes him fall down to the ground, without losing consciousness,
[13]. ►
Vertigo in the evening, with cloudiness of the head, [13]. ►
Vertigo, dizziness, malaise, belching, nausea, bloating of the stomach,
gagging, and efforts to vomit, with vomiting of food, [13]. ►
Dizziness, with severe pain in the cerebellum, [13]. ►
Dizziness, accompanied with incomplete erection of the penis, and
formication on the soft palate, [13].
[90.] ►
Cloudiness of the head, with severe pain in the occiput, [13]. ► General
Head. ► Contortions and
extraordinary movements of the head and hands, with rage of nervous
agitation, [13]. ► Necessity of moving the head from right
to left, and to rub it against some object, with crossness, [13]. ►
Heaviness in the head, particularly in the evening, [13]. ► Great
heaviness of the head, and when waking up in the morning, preventing
somewhat the opening of the eyes, and at the same time, pyrosis, [13]. ►
After some fever, heaviness of the head, lasting eight days, [13]. ►
Weakness of the head, [4]. ► Headache, with giddiness, when fixing the
sight on any object, [13]. ► Headache when waking up, which compels to
lie down again; sensation as if a hammer was striking the head, and the
blows resounding in the throat, [13].
► Headache, with burning heat, and
general perspiration; oppression at the chest, and palpitation of the
heart; sadness and desire to cry, [13].
[100.] ► Headache in the evening, increasing when
running, [13]. ► When waking up in the morning, headache,
as if it was knocked; with trembling, great sadness, cough, oppression
of the chest, and prostration, until 9 o’clock, when the headache
increased, affecting the throat and neck, with stiffness of the latter, [13]. ►
Headache, similar to migraine, with impossibility to open the eyes, and
tendency of the head to incline backwards, [13]. ►
Headache when waking, as if the head was compressed with force, [13]. ►
Headache during the night, with constant lancinating pains and whizzing
in the ears, as if the blood was rushing into the head; after lying down
he soon goes to sleep, but wakes up again with the same pains, which
last all next day; a footbath in the night relieves him (thirtieth day),
[13]. ►
Pain in the whole head, more severe in the forehead, with heat and
sweat, lasting all day, and an eruption of small pimples on the face and
forehead (in an impubescent girl), [13].
► Pains in the head and heart, with
cough and nausea when waking up, [13].
► Pain in the head and heart, with
cough and nausea, in the morning when waking, [13]. ► Severe
headache, with compressive pain in the heart; bitterness of the mouth,
and thirst, [13]. ► Severe pain in the head, that go over the
whole head to the temples and nose, where he experiences a sensation as
preceding an epistaxis, [13]. [110.] ►
Deep intense headache, with restlessness, compelling to move from one
place to another; malaise and anguish, as if he was going to be
dangerously ill. The pain flies to the forehead and to the occiput, with
photophobia; a strong light compels to complain and to scream, [13]. ►
Severe headache, with fear of losing reason, great dryness of the
tongue, extreme uneasiness and malaise, [13].
► Excessive headache all over, [13]. ►
Pressing and hammering pains in the whole head, particularly on the
right side, extending to all that side of the face, with anguish and
sickness of the stomach, [13]. ► Headache, with a good deal of oppression,
suffocation, palpitation of the heart, and prostration, [13]. ►
Bruised and pressive pain in the head and chest, [13]. ►
Pressive pain in the head, with a sensation as if the eyes were hopping
or jumping, [13]. ► He wakes up with a pressive headache, the
cause of which he assigns to the long dreams he has had, [13]. ►
Compressive headache, lasting five hours, [13].
► Compressive headache, towards
evening, [13]. [120.] ►
Compressive headache, with lachrymation and heaviness of the upper
eyelids, [13]. ► Squeezing and lancinating pains in the
head and uterus, [13]. ► Lancinating pains in the head, at night,
near the right ear, [13]. ► On inclining the head downwards while
sitting, slight and transient pain, as if produced by a very cold air, [13]. ►
Headache, as if a large quantity of cold water was poured on the head;
relieved by pressure, [13]. ► In the morning in bed, sensation as if
cold water was poured from the head all over the body without any pain
(forty-second day), [13]. ► Pain and heat in the head, on waking up,
followed by alternation of cold and heat, with acute pain in the hepatic
region, [13]. ► Headache, with burning heat, which
extends to the face, and particularly the eyes, [13]. ►
Headache, with burning heat in the abdomen, accompanied with sadness;
indifference, and painful feeling at the dorsal and palmar surfaces of
both hands, [13]. ► Great burning in the head; the hair
troubles to the point of causing the desire to remove it; continually
tossing of the head without finding a place where to rest it; the woman
feels great impatience, uneasiness, restlessness, bad humor, oppressive
breathing, and a desire to pull out her hair, [13]. [130.] ► Great burning in the head; the hair
troubles to the point of causing the desire to remove it; continually
tossing of the head without finding a place where to rest it; all these
symptoms followed by great impatience, uneasiness, restlessness, bad
humor, oppressive breathing, and desire to pull out her hair, [13]. ►
Headache aggravated by the touch, which causes a very unpleasant
sensation, [13]. ► Inclining the head forwards, aggravation
of the frontal pain; if inclining backwards, aggravation of the pain in
occiput; if sideways, aggravation in corresponding side of head, [13]. ►
Forehead. ► Frontal
headache, pain in the vertex and parietal bones, as if cold water was
poured upon the head, with great noise internally, [13]. ►
Headache, with pressure of the forehead; sickness at the stomach, and
nausea during the night, [13]. ► Pain in the forehead and right side of
head, [13]. ►
Pain and burning for a moment, in the forehead, [13]. ► From 3
P.M. until 7 P.M., pain in the forehead, particularly in the right side,
worse by leaning downwards and then a painful pressure, which extends to
the eyes, is experienced (twenty-ninth day), [13]. ► Sharp
pains in the forehead, with increased of heat, [13]. ► Pain
in the forehead, with a pressive sensation in the bones of the nose, [13]. [140.]
► Constant pain in the forehead,
sometimes with sensation of constriction of the nose, [13]. ►
Lancinations in forehead and right temple, [13]. ►
Stinging pain in forehead, and in the hypogastrium, [13]. ►
Shooting and lancinating in the forehead and right temple, [13]. ►
Shooting in the forehead, passing to the temples, [13]. ► Temples.
► Pain in both temples, while
coughing, [13]. ► Pain in right temple, [13]. ► Pain
in the right temple and side of the head during the night, accompanied
with a disagreeable sensation, [13].
► Neuralgia in the temples, [13]. ►
Neuralgia in the left temporal region after twenty-four hours of taking
the medicine (a young girl of fifteen), [13].
[150.] ►
Lancinations in left temple, [13].
► Lancinating, but transient pains in
both temples, [13]. ► Lancination in both temples, during the
night, [13]. ►
In the evening, shooting in right temple, [13].
► Shooting, during the night, in left
temple, [13]. ► Vertex and Parietals. ► Pain in the superior, posterior, and
lateral regions of the head, with a great deal of heat, [13]. ► Pain
in the middle and superior part of the head, extending to the
cheek-bones, with nausea, and desire to vomit, [13]. ►
Heaviness of left side of head, [13].
► Headache, particularly left side,
affecting the left eye, [13]. ► Pain in the right side of the head
(checked by Pulsatilla), [13]. [160.] ►
Lancinations on the left side of the head, [13]. ►
Lancinating pains in the left side, and in the right eye, [13]. ►
Lancinations on the left side of head, in the morning, with itching of
right ear, [13]. ► Severe shooting during the night, mainly
on the left side of head, [13]. ► Occiput. ►
Pain extending to the posterior part of the head, with necessity of
shutting the hands, which relieves, [13].
► Headache in the occiput and
temples, when coughing, as if striking with a hammer, [13]. ► Pain
in the occiput, as if striking it with a hammer, extending to the
temples, [13]. ► Intense pain in the occiput, with burning
thirst, [13]. ► Pain in the occipital region, as if a
nail was driven in, [13]. ► Compressive pains in the posterior part
of the head, extending towards the neck (relieved by Aconite), [13].® 2000
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