Trachinus

Animal kingdom.

Class, Pisces.

Order, Teloster.

Trachinus Draco and Vipera.

Common names. Great and lesser Weever, Sting-bull and Sting-fish.

Aidhorities. 1, Prof. Allan, Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., vol. vi, 1840, p. 161 (Dublin Med. Press, 2d ser., vol. ix, 1864, p. 562), a wound on the thumb, from Trachinus vipera; 2, Tarenfeld and Landeberg, A. H. Z., 8, 136 (from the Swedish), effects of the stings of T. Draco.

Aggravation

Hydrophobia

Anxiety

Fear of death,I

Head

Vertigo

Violent headache

Stomach

Violent thirst

Nausea

Green bilious vomiting

Respiratory Organs

Paroxysm of suffocation

Heart and Palpitation

Generalities

Swelling of the whole body

Swelling of the wounded arm, then of the head and chest,I

A peculiar stinging pain occurred a few seconds after the wound, and this gradually increased during a period of fifteen minutes; the pain had now become almost intolerable, extending along the back of the thumb towards the wrist; it was of a burning character, resembling the pain produced by the sting of a wasp, but much more intense; the thumb now began to swell, and exhibited an inflammatory blush, extending upwards to the wrist; the pain was now distinctly throbbing and very excruciating; in this state it continued for about an hour, when the pain began somewhat to subside, the swelling and redness still continuing; in about an hour and a half the pain was nearly gone ; next morning the swelling of the thumb had but slightly diminished, and was in some degree diffused over the back of the hand, the thumb continued red and hot, and painful on pressure over the metacarpal bone; in a few days the swelling had completely subsided, but the pain on pressure continued for more than a week,h

The edges of the wound became thick, hard, tense, and insensible, black and gangrenous

Weakness

Violent burning pain, extending from the wound into the chest

Skin

The skin of the whole body becomes yellowish green

Gangrenous blisters on the arm

Sleep

Sleepless

Fever

Constant fever, with irregular pulse

Cold clammy sweat