Crotalus Cascavella

Magnetic state; she hears nothing, and again sees the spectre of death, as a gigantic

black skeleton.—Hears a strange voice to |. and behind her, and follows it, throws herself against

closed doors, and scratches them with her nails—Attempts to throw herself out of

• ▸window.
• ▸—Fancies her eyes are falling out.
• ▸—He fancies he hears groans.
• ▸—Thoughts dwell on

death —Fright at night about indefinite things.—Clairvoyant.—Anxiety and

inquietude.—Involuntary groaning.

Entire skull compresses the brain like an iron helmet.—Sensation as if something alive

were walking inside the head in a circle——Headache, epistaxis and great excitement, caused by

starting out of sleep.—Shocks in head which almost throw her off her balance.—Acute

lancinations in r. temple.—Sensation as if a red-hot iron were stuck into vertex.

Feels a blur before her eyes.—Dazzling blue light —Pressive sensation of r. eyeball,

• ▸which felt as if drawn out.
• ▸—L.
• ▸eye feels as if drawn towards temple.
• ▸—Cutting sensation all round

eyeball as if it was being taken out with a pen-knife.

Bloody serum runs from nose.—Epistaxis of bright blood.—Tip of nose feels drawn up

as by a string and fastened to centre of forehead.—Smell, like that of the snake; as of a hospital.

Tongue scarlet red; paralysed.—Pain in tongue and larynx extending to

• ▸abdomen.
• ▸—Burning and prickling at tip.
• ▸—Itching of tongue.
• ▸—Thick, viscid, dark

saliva.—Discharge of white mucus from mouth.—Taste, very salt; of onions; putrid —Speech

difficult.

Feeling of dust in throat; of lump.—Burning; constriction; formication.—Constrictive

pain as if a string were tied round thyroid body.—Pain in cesophagus extending to

abdomen.—Swallowing difficult.

Great desire for snow, without wanting either water or wine.—Feeling of coldness

in stomach after eating. —Sensation of an opening in stomach through which air passes.—Each

mouthful of food falls suddenly into stomach, like a stone, with pain felt even in the

back.—Epigastrium sensitive, cannot bear clothing.—Violent blow in epigastrium.

Feeling as if a peg were sticking in middle of liver—Weight at diaphragm; and

in hypogastrium.—Sensation of a band round abdomen.

Prolapsus ani; urging and tenesmus, followed by discharge from anus of

mucus like white of egg.—Yellowish diarrhcea.—Obstinate constipation.

Violent lancinations in uterus when washing with cold water;

terrible lancinations if the water is warm, with weight in uterus.—Lancinations like knife-stabs in

uterus and anus, esp. when washing with cold water.—Intermitting metrorrhagia (vermilion-

coloured).

Dry cough at night from tickling in throat.—Green expectoration in

morning.—Suffocative feeling with dread of another attack.

Intolerable pains in thorax.—Sensation as if head and chest were compressed by iron

armour.—Sensation of water in chest, with efforts to throw it up, and faint feeling as if heart were

• ▸dipped in a liquid.
• ▸—Bone-pain and swelling of |.
• ▸clavicle.
• ▸—Stitches in |.
• ▸side on drawing breath.

Feeling as if heart were beating from above downwards.—Palpitation if any one

stands at her r. side.—Faintness > in open air.

Knife-stabs under r. axilla, arresting breathing —Cramp in arms.—Pain in

palm of hands extending to wrist—Numbness and swelling of arms.

Sensation as if r. hip, from hip to heel, were shortened; this sensation,

though illusory, causes him to limp.

• ▸Goitre.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Mania.
• ▸Metrorrhagia.
• ▸Nose-bleed.
• ▸Uterus, neuralgia of.

Characteristics——The poison of Cascavella is as deadly as that of the other Crotalidze, and the

general symptoms are like those of the other members of the group, but the mental symptoms are

more pronounced and peculiar. Lancinating pains are frequent, and are < by cold washings.

Many symptoms are < at night. Pains in bones. Hallucinations are marked and peculiar; a

• ▸magnetic state is induced.
• ▸There is headache after sleep as with Lach.
• ▸Compare: Crotal.
• ▸hor.
• ▸,

Lach., &c.