Toxicophis

Toxicophis pugnax, B. and G.

Animal kingdom.

Class, Reptilia.

Order, Ophidia.

Common name. Moccasin.

Authorities. 1, Wm. Inhales, Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. 27, 1842, p. 170, a strong healthy man was bitten on the right ankle; 2, Wm. Stockbridge, Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. 29, p. 42, Mr.-was bitten on the leg when he was ten years old; 3, same, a second case.

Face

Countenance somewhat anxious (after one hour)

Inferior Extremities

Right leg oedematous, considerably larger than the left (alter one hour),h

A lew drops of a limpid fluid came from the wounds (after one hour)

The leg became painful and swelled rap- ' idly, the swelling extending to the hip, attended with high irritative fever (after hall an hour)

For several years the pains were confined to the knee of the limb bitten; in a few years it left the knee and seized the hip, and finally it attacked the shoulder, the last attack being very slight

False

Pulse accelerated, full, regular, easily compressible (after one hour),h

Generalities

For the last eighteen years he has had an annual recurrence of symptoms, attended with severe pain, but not accompanied with swelling; it occurred at precisely the same time of the year, continued several days, but decreasing in severity every succeeding year

Every year the symptoms have returned with less intensity and with an absence of swelling

Skin rather dry (after one hour),h