Vipera Lachesis, Fel

Vipera lachesis, Bufocephalus tel. (Digging').

Authority. (E. W. Berridge, M.D., New York Journ. of Horn., vol. ii, 1874, p. 461.) 1, Berridge, took repeated doses of cm. (Fincke), for two days; 2, Mr.-, took 6 globules, at 8 p.m., without knowing the name of the medicine.

Mouth

The tongue, especially at the end, felt smaller, for ten minutes (after three-quarters of an hour)

Bitter taste in mouth, lasting more than fifteen minutes (after fifty-five minutes)

Every day since the dose, intense bitter taste in the mouth (fourth day)

The lower lip, on the inside, felt swollen, and there was a sore feeling as if there was a longitudinal ridge on it; it came on about 10 a.m., lasting the whole day (fourth day)

Throat

Feeling in throat of choking ; desire to clear the throat; the tongue, especially at the end, felt smaller; desire to loosen clothes round throat; all this lasted ten minutes; he thought he had taken Lachesis (after three-quarters of an hour)

Chest

Woke at 5 a.m., with a dull heavy pain under left ribs (near cardiac end of stomach), which seemed to rest at the one spot for a few minutes, then slowly moved round to the right in an upward direction to stomach-pit; it remained about an hour, and then went away (second day)

Twice during day, in the open air, shooting in region of left nipple (fifth d^y)

Superior Extremities

In outer side of left arm, shooting downwards, from just below shoulder to elbow (after one hour and twenty minutes)

Sore painful feeling at end of right thumb (palmar surface), for one minute (after fifty minutes)

Inferior Extremities

2 p.m., when walking out, a dull heavy pain struck him suddenly in the right hip, in one spot; it seemed to be in the hip-bone; it only remained a few minutes, and then passed away without his noticing it (third day)

Sore pain behind right internal malleolus (after fifty-seven minutes)

During the day, tingling in toes of right foot (second day)