Crotalus Cascavella
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General EN
Crotalus Cascavella.
A Brazilian Rattle-snake. N. O. Crotalidae. (Proving by Mure, together with effects reported by Higgins.) Trituration of the virus with Saccharum lactis.
Clinical EN
Goître. Headache. Mania. Metrorrhagia. Nose-bleed. Uterus, neuralgia of.
Characteristics EN
The poison of Cascavella is as deadly as that of the other Crotalidae, and the general symptoms are like those of the other members of the group, but the mental symptoms are more pronounced and peculiar. Lancinating pains are frequent, and are < by cold washings. Many symptoms are < at night. Pains in bones. Hallucinations are marked and peculiar; a magnetic state is induced. There is headache after sleep as with Lach. Compare: Crotal. hor., Lach., &c.
Mind EN
Magnetic state; she hears nothing, and again sees the spectre of death, as a gigantic black skeleton
Hears a strange voice to l. and behind her, and follows it, throws herself against closed doors, and scratches them with her nails
Attempts to throw herself out of window
Fancies her eyes are falling out
He fancies he hears groans
Thoughts dwell on death
Fright at night about indefinite things
Clairvoyant
Anxiety and inquietude
Involuntary groaning.
Head EN
Entire skull compresses the brain like an iron helmet
Sensation as if something alive were walking inside the head in a circle
Headache, epistaxis and great excitement, caused by starting out of sleep
Shocks in head which almost throw her off her balance
Acute lancinations in r. temple
Sensation as if a red-hot iron were stuck into vertex.
Eyes EN
Feels a blur before her eyes
Dazzling blue light
Pressive sensation of r. eyeball, which felt as if drawn out
L. eye feels as if drawn towards temple
Cutting sensation all round eyeball as if it was being taken out with a pen-knife.
Ears EN
Swelling of r. ear
Very deaf
Buzzing in ears while going downstairs.
Nose EN
Bloody serum runs from nose
Epistaxis of bright blood
Tip of nose feels drawn up as by a string and fastened to centre of forehead
Smell, like that of the snake; as of a hospital.
Face EN
Face red; or yellow
Crawling sensation in face
Difficult to move lips.
Mouth EN
Tongue scarlet red; paralysed
Pain in tongue and larynx extending to abdomen
Burning and prickling at tip
Itching of tongue
Thick, viscid, dark saliva
Discharge of white mucus from mouth
Taste, very salt; of onions; putrid
Speech difficult.
Throat EN
Feeling of dust in throat; of lump
Burning; constriction; formication
Constrictive pain as if a string were tied round thyroid body
Pain in oesophagus extending to abdomen
Swallowing difficult.
Stomach EN
Great desire for snow, without wanting either water or wine
Feeling of coldness in stomach after eating
Sensation of an opening in stomach through which air passes
Each mouthful of food falls suddenly into stomach, like a stone, with pain felt even in the back
Epigastrium sensitive, cannot bear clothing
Violent blow in epigastrium.
Abdomen EN
Feeling as if a peg were sticking in middle of liver
Weight at diaphragm; and in hypogastrium
Sensation of a band round abdomen.
Stool And Anus EN
Prolapsus ani; urging and tenesmus, followed by discharge from anus of mucus like white of egg
Yellowish diarrhoea
Obstinate constipation.
Urinary Organs EN
Copious urination.—Involuntary emissions during sleep.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Violent lancinations in uterus when washing with cold water; terrible lancinations if the water is warm, with weight in uterus
Lancinations like knife-stabs in uterus and anus, esp. when washing with cold water
Intermitting metrorrhagia (vermilion-coloured).
Respiratory Organs EN
Dry cough at night from tickling in throat
Green expectoration in morning
Suffocative feeling with dread of another attack.
Chest EN
Intolerable pains in thorax
Sensation as if head and chest were compressed by iron armour
Sensation of water in chest, with efforts to throw it up, and faint feeling as if heart were dipped in a liquid
Bone-pain and swelling of l. clavicle
Stitches in l. side on drawing breath.
Heart EN
Feeling as if heart were beating from above downwards
Palpitation if any one stands at her r. side
Faintness > in open air.
Neck And Back EN
Full feeling in carotids.—Pain in sacro-lumbar articulation.
Limbs EN
All limbs tremble and are weary.
Upper Limbs EN
Knife-stabs under r. axilla, arresting breathing
Cramp in arms
Pain in palm of hands extending to wrist
Numbness and swelling of arms.
Lower Limbs EN
Sensation as if r. hip, from hip to heel, were shortened; this sensation, though illusory, causes him to limp.
Skin EN
Skin red
Eruption of small red pimples
Prickling formication, itching.
Sleep EN
Somnolence.—Dreams of corpses and ghosts.
Fever EN
General coldness, not relieved by energy.—Feet icy cold.