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Crotalus Cascavella

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General

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

Goître. Headache. Mania. Metrorrhagia. Nose-bleed. Uterus, neuralgia of.

Characteristics

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

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

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

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

Swelling of r. ear

Very deaf

Buzzing in ears while going downstairs.

Nose

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

Face red; or yellow

Crawling sensation in face

Difficult to move lips.

Mouth

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

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

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

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

Prolapsus ani; urging and tenesmus, followed by discharge from anus of mucus like white of egg

Yellowish diarrhoea

Obstinate constipation.

Urinary Organs

Copious urination.—Involuntary emissions during sleep.

Female Sexual Organs

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

Dry cough at night from tickling in throat

Green expectoration in morning

Suffocative feeling with dread of another attack.

Chest

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

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

Full feeling in carotids.—Pain in sacro-lumbar articulation.

Limbs

All limbs tremble and are weary.

Upper Limbs

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

Sensation as if r. hip, from hip to heel, were shortened; this sensation, though illusory, causes him to limp.

Skin

Skin red

Eruption of small red pimples

Prickling formication, itching.

Sleep

Somnolence.—Dreams of corpses and ghosts.

Fever

General coldness, not relieved by energy.—Feet icy cold.