Other names and synonyms
crot-c, Crotalus durissus.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Additional facts
A вrazilian Rattle-snake. N. O. сrotalidae. Proving by Mure, together with effects reported by Higgins. Trituration of the virus with Saccharum lactis.
Nosology
Goitre. Headache. Mania. Metrorrhagia. Nose-bleed. Uterus, neuralgia of.
Typical features
The poison of сascavella is as deadly as that of the other сrotalidae, 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.
Mental
Magnetic state; she hears nothing, and again sees the spectre of death, as a gigantic black skeleton. Hears a strange voice to left 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. - сlairvoyant. Anxiety and inquietude. Involuntary groaning.
Head, face, and ears
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 right temple. Sensation as if a red-hot iron were stuck into vertex.
Feels a blur before her eyes. Dazzling blue light. Pressive sensation of right eyeball, which felt as if drawn out. L. eye feels as if drawn towards temple. - сutting sensation all round eyeball as if it was being taken out with a pen-knife.
Swelling of right ear. Very deaf. - вuzzing in ears while going downstairs.
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 red; or yellow. - сrawling sensation in face. Difficult to move lips.
Feels a blur before her eyes. Dazzling blue light. Pressive sensation of right eyeball, which felt as if drawn out. L. eye feels as if drawn towards temple. - сutting sensation all round eyeball as if it was being taken out with a pen-knife.
Swelling of right ear. Very deaf. - вuzzing in ears while going downstairs.
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 red; or yellow. - сrawling sensation in face. Difficult to move lips.
Mouth and throat
Tongue scarlet red; paralysed. Pain in tongue and larynx extending to abdomen. - вurning 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.
Feeling of dust in throat; of lump. - вurning; constriction; formication. - сonstrictive pain as if a string were tied round thyroid body. Pain in oesophagus extending to abdomen. Swallowing difficult.
Feeling of dust in throat; of lump. - вurning; constriction; formication. - сonstrictive pain as if a string were tied round thyroid body. Pain in oesophagus extending to abdomen. Swallowing difficult.
Gastrointestinal tract
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.
Feeling as if a peg were sticking in middle of liver. Weight at diaphragm; and in hypogastrium. Sensation of a band round abdomen.
Prolapsus ani; urging and tenesmus, followed by discharge from anus of mucus like white of egg. Yellowish diarrhoea. Obstinate constipation.
Feeling as if a peg were sticking in middle of liver. Weight at diaphragm; and in hypogastrium. Sensation of a band round abdomen.
Prolapsus ani; urging and tenesmus, followed by discharge from anus of mucus like white of egg. Yellowish diarrhoea. Obstinate constipation.
Urogenital system
Copious urination. Involuntary emissions during sleep.
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, especially when washing with cold water. Intermitting metrorrhagia (vermilion-coloured).
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, especially when washing with cold water. Intermitting metrorrhagia (vermilion-coloured).
Chest organs
Dry cough at night from tickling in throat. Green expectoration in morning. Suffocative feeling with dread of another attack.
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. - вone-pain and swelling of left clavicle. Stitches in left side on drawing breath.
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. - вone-pain and swelling of left clavicle. Stitches in left side on drawing breath.
Cardiovascular system
Feeling as if heart were beating from above downwards. Palpitation if any one stands at her right side. Faintness in open air.
Limbs and spine
Full feeling in carotids. Pain in sacro-lumbar articulation.
All limbs tremble and are weary.
Knife-stabs under right axilla, arresting breathing. - сramp in arms. Pain in palm of hands extending to wrist. Numbness and swelling of arms.
Sensation as if right hip, from hip to heel, were shortened; this sensation, though illusory, causes him to limp.
All limbs tremble and are weary.
Knife-stabs under right axilla, arresting breathing. - сramp in arms. Pain in palm of hands extending to wrist. Numbness and swelling of arms.
Sensation as if right 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.