Crotalus Cascavella
Allen, Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, 1879, Vol. X, p. 495
Authority. 3, S. B. Digging, Ophidians, Philada., 1873, p. 112, the wound was inflicted in a man’s finger.
Mind
Anxiety (after two hours and twenty-five minutes)
Inquietude and anxiety increased (after two hours and fifty minutes)
Feels exceedingly downcast (after three hours and four minutes)
Inquietude (after three hours and fifteen minutes)
Involuntary groans and moaning (after three hours and four minutes’)
Groans (after seven hours)
Has a feeling of stupidity (after five hours and thirty minutes)
Head
Unpleasant sensation in the head (after one hour and thirty minutes)
Ee p. 496
Feels a blur before his eyes (after one hour)
Nose p. 496
Slight epistaxis (after two hours and fifty minutes)
Flow ot blood from the nose (after three hours and thirty minutes)
Flow of sanguinolent serosity from the nostrils (after seven hours)
Fever p. 496
Face much flushed (after three hours and thirty minutes)
A crawling sensation in the face (after one hour)
Feels it difficult to move the lips (after one hour and thirty minutes)
Conditions p. 496
Salivation (after four hours and thirty minutes)
Saliva thick, dark-colored, viscous; spits with difficulty (after five hours aud thirty minutes)
Saliva whitish, viscous (after seven hours)
Finds it difficult to speak (after two hours and five minutes)
Throat p. 496
Sensation of constriction in the throat (after one hour and thirty minutes)
Constriction in the throat; respiration difficult (after four hours)
Sensation as of a knot in the throat (after seven hours)
Feels a pain in the oesophagus, which extends to the stomach and abdomen (after one hour and forty-eight minutes)
Swallows with difficulty (after two hours aud twenty-five minutes)
Deglutition difficult (after seven hours)
Sexual Organs p. 496
Abundant discharges of urine (after five hours and thirty minutes, aud seven hours)
Chest p. 496
Unbearable pains in the thorax (after four hours)
Heart and Pulse p. 496
Pulse strong; increases at intervals from 110 to 140 per minute (after one hour); pulse accelerated (after one hour and thirty minutes) ; pulse 96 (after two hours aud fifty minutes) ; pulse 100 (after three hours and four minutes) ; pulse 98 (after three hours and thirty minutes) ; pulse 104 (after four hours aud thirty minutes) ; pulse 104 (after five hours aud thirty minutes)
Neck and Back p. 496
Sensation of plenitude in the jugular veins, which is soon felt in the sides of the throat and nape of the neck (after one hour)
Superior Extremities p. 496
Swelling of the hand, and drops of blood escape from the wound
Pain in the palm of the hand, which extends up to the wrist
The hand is exceedingly swollen, accompanied by a sen ¬ sation of cold, which is also felt in the lower extremities (after one hour)
Pain aud oedema extend from the hand nearly up to the elbow (after one hour and twenty minutes)
The entire arm is swollen aud very painful (after one hour and a half)
Swelling of the arms (after two hours aud fifty minutes)
Pains in the arms (after three hours aud fifteen minutes)
The pains cause frequent groans (after five hours and thirty minutes)
Generalities p. 496
Visible tremors in whole body (after one hour and thirty minutes)
Patient excessively prostrated (after four hours)
Muscular prostration (after five hours and thirty minutes)
The whole body seems to fill itself up (after one hour aud twenty minutes)
Great pain in the surface of the whole body (after four hours aud thirty minutes)
Skin p. 496
The whole body is flushed and red (after three hours and thirty minutes)
Body a much darker red (after four hours)
The blood starts from a pustule in the arm-pit (after three hours and thirty minutes)
Inclination to sleep) (after one hour and thirty minutes)
Profound sleep (after nine hours and fifteen minutes)
Somnolency (after seven hours)
Fever p. 496
He feels cold, and desires to cover himself (after one hour and thirty-eight minutes)
Sensation of cold in the feet (after one hour aud forty-eight minutes)
General perspiration (after three hours and four minutes)
The skin is moist (after five hours and thirty minutes)
Copious perspiration in the chest (after two hours and twenty-five minutes)