Scolopendra

Scolopendra (various species).

Animal kingdom: Class, Myriopoda; Order, Chilopoda; Sub-order, Scolopendridm.

Common name, Centipede.

Authorities. 1, Dr. H. C. Wood, Jr., Am. J. of Med. Sc., 1866, 2, p. 575, a girl of four years was bitten by “S. keros,” death in six hours; 2, Rounsarelle, Nashville J. of Med. (Am. Obs., 1870, p. 31), a man bitten on the arm; 3, Sebastiany, Gaz. des Hop., 1870 (S. J., 153, 314), two cases of bite by “S. morsitans,” a girl on the finger and a man on the arm.

Vertigo p. 546

Headache

Nausea (after one hour and a half),2

Vomiting of a pale-yellow glairy matter, which continued at short intervals with increasing violence, until the child, in a convulsive struggle, ceased to breathe

Vomiting

Precordial anxiety

Arm greatly swollen ; erysipelatous blush extending over half the arm ; black dotted impressions in two rows, three-quarters of an inch apart, elevated with dark lines, extending across from dot to dot, five and a half inches in length, thus showing the entrance of every foot; pain deep and dull (after one hour and a half)

Instant complaint, which grew rapidly worse, which was described by the child as being all over

A large red spot, becoming black, in the middle of which there forms an eschar as large as a five-franc piece

The whole affection resembled a malignant pustule, aud was associated with swelling of the lymphatic glands

Violent itching, followed by violent pain in the bitten part

No perspiration of the right arm for three months f