Tarentnla Gubensis
Clarke, A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, 1900, Vol. II, p. 1380
Mygale Cubensis. Aralia peluda. Cuban Tarantula. N. O. Araneideae. Tincture of whole spider.
Clinical
Carbuncle. Chorea. Intermittents. ChanotarlstlOB. — " The Mygale Cubensis, which may be called the Cuban Tarentula, also found in South Carolina and Texas, is a larger spider, of a dark brown colour, less poisonous, and covered wiSi more hairs than the Tarentula Htspanica " (Hering). The chief uses to which Tm. c, has been put are : (i) Carbuncle, even to sloughing; with great prostration and diarrhoea. (2) Intermittent fever, with evening exacerbation. A keynote symptom is '' atrocious pains." A case of chorea in a girl of twelve is reported (H. M,j [arch, look) cured with Tm. c. 6. The movements were confined to the left side, and occurred chiefly at night, when Tm. c. was prescribed.
Relations
Compare: In intermittents, Aran. d. Carbuncle, Anthrac, Lach ., Sil.
Mind
Anxiety. — Delirium,
Head
Headache.
Stool and Anus
Diarrhoea.
Urinary Organs
Retention of urine.
Generalities
Toxsemia.
Skin
The bite is painless ; the person is not sensible of it till next day, when an inflamed pimple is found surrounded by a scarlet areola ; from the pimple to some other part of the body a red erysipelatous line is seen, marking the line followed by the spider over the skin after biting. — This pimple swells, the inflamed areola spreads, chills and fever set in with copious sweat and retention of urine; the pimple becomes a hard, large, exceedingly painful abscess, ending by mortification of the integuments over it, and having several small openings, discharging a thick, sanious matter containing pieces of mortified cellular tissue, fasciae, and tendons; the openings by growing run into one another, forming a large cavity; at this period the fever takes the intermittent type with evening exacerbations. — In two cases, in delicate children, the bite proved fatal; but the majority recover in from three to six weeks.
Fever
Chills followed by intense burning fever supervene on second or third day ; with great thirst, anxiety, restlessness, headache, delirium, copious perspiration and retention of urine. — Later the fever takes