Other names and synonyms
lacer.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Description
Lacerta agilis. Green Lizard (also Large Green Spotted Lizard of U.S. N. O. Lacertilia. Tincture of whole animal. A separate preparation of the spotted lizard should be made.
Nosology
Skin, eruptions on. Tongue, vesicles under.
Typical features
The Green Lizard is usually considered to be non-poisonous; but вaldelli, who ate a lizard cut into small pieces, developed some decided symptoms of indigestion, vesication under the tongue, and skin eruptions; and a girl, bitten on the sole of the left foot by a large green spotted lizard, died of the effects of the bite after twenty-one days of suffering. This is recorded in Allen s Appendix, and comes from an American source, so it is probably an American variety of Lacerta that is accountable for this. Swelling, pain, numbness, delirium, with an alternating state of greatly increased mental acumen, left-sided paralysis, neck and jaw of left side rigid and muscles tender. In the Schema the symptoms due to the bite of the American lizard are marked (A). The symptoms of the proving were by drinking frequently vinegar and water. Motion = excruciating, pains in bitten limb. Touch by frequently drinking vinegar and water.
Urogenital system
Ulcerated places on female genitals.
Cardiovascular system
Pulse rose eight beats; subsequently fell fourteen beats.
Common symptoms
Numbness; prickling; swelling spreads up from bitten foot, with most excruciating pain on slightest motion; muscles of neck and jaw of left (bitten) side stiff and tender to touch, while left side paralysed. The limbs were spotted a short time before death on the twenty-first day (A). All the symptoms disappeared on the subsequent night after a profuse sweat.
Skin
Moist white eruptions in several parts of the body, especially inner canthus of eye.