Bothrops Lanceolatus

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

Swollen and puffy. Besotted expression.

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

• ▸Epigastric distress.
• ▸Black vomiting.
• ▸Intense haematemesis.
• ▸Tympanitis and bloody stools.

• ▸Swollen, livid, cold with haemorrhagic infiltration.
• ▸Gangrene.
• ▸Lymphatics swollen.
• ▸Anthrax.
• ▸Malignant erysipelas.

• ▸Blindness.
• ▸Bones, necrosis of.
• ▸Day-blindness.
• ▸Gangrene.
• ▸Hémorrhages.
• ▸Lungs,

congestion of. Tongue, paralysis of.

Characteristics—The most peculiar symptoms of Bothrops, for which Ozanam is the authority,

• ▸are these: Amaurosis.
• ▸Day-blindness.
• ▸—"can scarcely see her way after sunrise.
• ▸" Inability to

articulate without any affection of the tongue. Hémorrhages, the blood being fluid and black. All

the symptoms of pulmonary congestion, oppressed breathing and bloody expectoration, more or

less profuse. Paralysis of one arm or one leg only. After being bitten in the little finger of one

hand, paralysis began in the finger-tips of the other hand and extended over the whole of that

side. Deep gangrene, bones laid bare and necrotic. Intolerable pain in right great toe (patient

• ▸bitten in left thumb).
• ▸The diagonal course of symptoms is marked.
• ▸Hemiplegia.
• ▸Dissecting

gangrene. Slight shivering followed by very profuse cold sweat.

• ▸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.
• ▸OEdematous 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).

Sixth to thirtieth potency.