BOTHROPS LANCEOLATUS
Yellow Viper
(BOTHROPS LANCIOLATUS – LACHESIS LANCIOLATUS)
Its venom is most coagulating, (also Lachesis). We must assume to discover beneath these redress the symptomatology of thrombosis, also thrombotic phenomena, as hemiplegia, aphasia, lack of ability to articulate (Linn J. Boyd).
Broken-down, haemorrhagic constitutions; septic states. Great lassitude and sluggishness; haemorrhages from each and every orifice of the body; black spots. Hemiplegia with aphasia. Inability to articulate, except any affection of the tongue. Nervous trembling. Pain in proper huge toe. Diagonal path of symptoms. Pulmonary congestion.
Eyes.–Amaurosis; blindness from haemorrhage into retina. Hemoralopia, day blindness, can hardly ever see her way after sunrise; conjunctivial haemorrhage.
Face.–Swollen and puffy. Besotted expression.
Throat.–Red, dry, constricted; swallowing difficult, can’t omit liquids.
Stomach.–Epigastric distress. Black vomiting. Intense haematemesis. Tympanitis and bloody stools.
Skin.–Swollen, livid, bloodless with haemorrhagic infiltration. Gangrene. Lymphatics swollen. Anthrax. Malignant erysipelas.
Modalities.–Worse, proper side.
Relationship.–Compare: Toxicophis.–Moccasin Snake (pain and fever recur annually, after chew from this snake, and occasionally exchange area with disappearance of first symptoms. An uncommon dryness of pores and skin follows the bite. Å’dematous swellings and periodical neuralgia. Pain travels from one phase to another). Other snake poisons, highly Lachesis.
Trachinus,-Stingfish (intolerable pains, swelling, acute blood, poisoning, gangrene).
Dose.–Sixth to thirtieth potency.
