Crotalus horridus
crot-horRattlesnake
Snake poisons are supposed to be chemically Cyan hydrates of Soda and other salts. Alcohol is the natural solvent of these salts and is an antidote. Has a profound trophic action. Old age nutritional troubles. Low septic states. General disorganization of the blood, hæmorrhages and jaundice. A crotalin injection decreases the rate of coagulation of the blood. In epilepsy the average rate is far greater than in normal conditions. Blood decomposition, hæmorrhages (dark fluid that forms no clots),
Crotalus horridus — Materia Medica
Crotalus horridus — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
pharyngeal. Bloody pus or sweat. Putridity, rapid decomposition and MALIGNANCY. Septic; tonsils, goitre, ulcers, abscess, etc. Dark or bluish parts. Petechiæ. Gangrene. General burning. .................... Plaintive speech. Timid; fears evil. Torpid. Forgetful. Mistakes in writing. Delirium. Faintings. Occipital ache; in waves from spine. Distorted face on waking. Epilepsy. Dark, besotted face. Grinds teeth. Mouldy breath. Swelled tongue. Stiff palate. Craves pork. Craves stimulants. Bilious vomit. Perineal abscess. Mouldy excretions. Anxious, labored breathing. HEART, weak, trembles, feels loose or turns over; sensitive to lying on l. side. First one limb then the other is numb. Jaundice. Blood-boils. Horrible dreams; of the dead. Black- water fever. High fever; with scarlet skin. Œdema about affected parts.
Crotalus horridus — mind · James Tyler Kent
The mental symptoms are well worth examining. The low form of delirium, muttering, talking to himself is a peculiar form of loquacity. It differs somewhat from Lachesis. Both have loquacity. The Lach. loquacity is so rapid that if anyone in the room commences to tell something the patient will take it up and finish the story, although he has never heard anything about it, so active is his mind. No one is permitted to finish a story in the presence of a Lach. patient. One will commence to tell something. He will say, "Oh, yes; I understand it and he will go off on another line and finish up with something entirely different. Crotalus does that, too, but Crotalus will take it up and mumble and stumble over his words in a clumsy manner. It is a low passive state like intoxication; in Lach. it is wild excitement. "Delirium with languor, drowsiness, stupor." That tells it. "Loquacious delirium with desire to escape from bed." It is passive, however. His motions are slow. "Muttering delirium of typhus. Sadness." His thoughts dwell on death continually. "Excessive sensitiveness. Moved to tears by reading. Melancholy with timidity, fear. Anxious and pale, with cold sweat. Irritable, cross, infuriated by least annoyance." On motion there is vertigo, dizziness. On keeping still there is pain. On going to sleep there is pain, and he is roused by violent pain. The longer he sleeps the more severe that pain in the head.
Crotalus horridus — general · James Tyler Kent
Aspect: The first impression would be to rebel against the use of such substances as Crotalus, Lachesis, Apis and other animal poisons, and it is true that the lay mind must look with something like horror upon their administration; but when they are properly used and when we consider the dreadfulness of the necessity demanding them, and also when we have ascertained that there can be no substitute when demanded, and again that they are potentized and changed until they are perfectly pure, because reduced to a state of simple substance, the horror passes away from the mind. It is true that the diseases that call for the use of such substances as Crotalus are very grave. When at the bedside of a Crotalus patient one feels that death is very near, the subject is horrible to look upon, and the mother in regard to her child, or the husband, would immediately say, "Doctor, use anything in order to save the life; resort to anything in order to heal this sick one." The symptoms are peculiar in Crotalus. The remedy stands out by itself. There can be no substitute for it, as there is no other remedy, taken as a whole, that looks it. The other snake poisons form the nearest resemblance, but this one is the most dreadful of all, excepting perhaps, the Ancistrodon contortrix (Copperhead). In the case of snake bites we get the most dire effects; we see death itself, we see the ending after a very rapid course, the very highest type of zymosis. These snake poisons are supposed to be cyanhydrates of soda and other salts. It is known that alcohol is the natural solvent of the cyanhydrates, and because of this alcohol has been used in great quantities in snake bites, and it has frequently prolonged and even saved life.
Crotalus horridus — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Yellow colour of eyes. Blood oozes from ears. Bleeding from nose and all orifices of body. Tongue protruded. Black vomit. Jaundice : malignant jaundice ; dark hemorrhages from nose, mouth, etc., dark scanty urine. Easily tired by slightest exertion. Sudden and great prostation of vital force. Yellow fever : heemorrhagic tendency, oozing of blood from every orifice, and even fores of skin. Skin yellow. Vomiting of bile or Hood. Fetid, bilious or bloody stools ; liver tender ; heart weak ; fainting. Fevers resulting from septic absorption and in purpuric cases of zymotic diseases ; puerpural fever. Yellow colour of whole body. Broken down constitutions. Some Italic, or Peculiar Symptoms Delusions : as mistakes in keeping accounts : forgetfulness of figures, names, places. Surrounded by imaginary foes or hideous animals. Loquacious delirium : desire to escape from bed. Suspicious and snappish. Frightful headache. Cerebral congestion. Epistaxis, in broken down constitutions or depraved state of blood ; blood thin, uncoagulable, dark : (?) with flushes of face, vertigo, or fainting. Yellow colour of face : or livid, bloated ; purple ; face tumid ; blueness round sunken eyes : chalky : death-like : leaden coloured. Distended red face. Tongue and all round throat feels tied up : cannot speak a word. Tongue swollen to nearly twice the normal size. Swelling of tongue till there is no more room in mouth. Tongue protruded. Cancer of tongue with haemorrhages. Tightness, constriction of throat. Deglutition impossible, from spasm of oesophagus. Malignant diphtheria : blood poisoning : oedema or gangrene of fauces. Swelling, angles of lower jaw. Unquenchable, burning thirst. Nausea on movement. Bilious vomiting. Cannot lie on right side or back without dark green vomiting. Everything looks yellow : at first everything looked blue. Pylorus constricted.
Crotalus horridus — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
(.Rattlesnake poison) Th ere are drugs whose malign effects on the human body present an almost perfect picture of some disease. The glaring instances that occur to one being Belladonna and scarlet fever : who will diagnose between them, without some corroborative history ? Arsenicum and ptomaine poisoning. Mercurius cor. and dysentery. Latrodectus mact. and angina pectoris. Crotalus hor. and black water fever. Where such correspondences occur, Hahnemann tells us that we have specifics. Otherwise, merely to attach to disease-names drugs that have sometimes been found useful, or have a reputation for being useful for them, will lead to disappointment. It is only where their drug-pictures coincide that we may confidently expect dramatic results. Of course any and all of these drugs may prove useful quite outside their complete symtomatology which, in ordinary practice, one seldom gets. You do not wait for the complete scarlet fever picture before prescribing Belladonna, which can be useful in a very wide number of common complaints. Only, the peculiarities—the " modalities "—of Bell, must be there, to call for the drug. For instance, it is one of our greatest headache remedies : but their characteristics must be those of Bell, viz, bursting, throbbing headache, usually with its fiery red hot face ; and here Bell, will cure, even where there is no sore throat, no high temperature, no red rash. Or again, a very dry, stiff, smooth, swollen throat will suggest Bell., without the bursting head, or the bright eyes with dilated pupils. But throat, or head, or whatever it may be, must be of the Bell, type, or nothing doing.
Crotalus horridus — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Lying on R. side. Falling to sleep. Warm weather. Spring. Alcohol.
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