Bothrops lanciolatus

Its venom is most coagulating, (also Lachesis). We should expect to find under these remedies the symptomatology of thrombosis, also thrombotic phenomena, as hemiplegia, aphasia, inability to articulate. (Linn J. Boyd.)

Broken-down, hemorrhagic constitutions; septic states. Great lassitude and sluggishness; hemorrhages from every orifice of the body; black spots. Hemiplegia with aphasia. Inability to articulate, without any affection of the tongue. Nervous trembling. Pain in right big toe. Diagonal course of symptoms. Pulmonary congestion.

Eyes

Amaurosis; blindness from hemorrhage into retina. Hemoralopia, day blindness, can hardly see her way after sunrise; conjunctivial hemorrhage.

Face

Swollen and puffy. Besotted expression.

Throat p. 128

Red, dry, constricted; swallowing difficult, cannot pass liquids.

Stomach p. 128

Epigastric distress. Black vomiting. Intense hematemesis. Tympanitis and bloody stools.

Skin p. 128

Swollen, livid, cold with hemorrhagic infiltration. Gangrene. Lymphatics swollen. Anthrax. Malignant erysipelas.

Modalities p. 128

Worse, right side.

Relationship p. 128

Compare: Toxicophis.—Moccasin Snake (pain and fever recur annually, after bite from this snake, and sometimes change location with disappearance of first symptoms. An unusual dryness of skin follows the bite. Œdematous swellings and periodical neuralgia. Pain travels from one part to another.) Other snake poisons, notably Lachesis.

Trachinus,—Stingfish (intolerable pains, swelling, acute blood poisoning, gangrene.)