Vipera Lachesis, Fel

Vipera lachesis, Bufocephalus fel. (Higgins).

Authority. (E. W. Berridge, M.D., New York Journ. of Hom., vol. ii, 1874, p. 461).

1 , Berridge, took repeated doses of cm. (Fincke), for two days; 2 , Mr. ---, took 6 globules, at 8 P.M., without knowing the name of the medicine.

MOUTH

• The tongue, especially at the end, felt smaller, for ten minutes (after three-quarters of an hour), 2.
• Bitter taste in mouth, lasting more than fifteen minutes (after fifty-five minutes), 2.
• Every day since the dose, intense bitter taste in the mouth (fourth day), 2.
• The lower lip, on the inside, felt swollen, and there was a sore feeling as if there was a longitudinal ridge on it; it came on about 10 A.M., lasting the whole day (fourth day), 2.

THROAT

• Feeling in throat of choking; desire to clear the throat; the tongue especially at the end, felt smaller; desire to loosen clothes round throat all this lasted ten minutes; he thought he had taken L achesis (after three-quarters of an hour), 2.

CHEST

• Woke at 5 A.M., with a dull heavy pain under left ribs (near cardiac end of stomach), which seemed to rest at the one spot for a few minutes then slowly moved round to the right in an upward direction to stomach-pit; it remained about an hour, and then went away (second day), 2.
• Twice during days, in the open air, shooting in region of left nipple (fifth day), 1.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• In outer side of left arm, shooting downwards, from just below shoulder to elbow (after one hour and twenty minutes), 2.
• Sore painful feeling at end of right thumb (palmar surface), for one minute (after fifty minutes), 2.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES. [10.]

• 2 P.M., when walking out, a dull heavy pain struck him suddenly in the right hip, in one spot; it seemed to be in the hip-bone; it only remained a few minutes, and then passed away without his noticing it (third day), 2.
• Sore pain behind right internal malleolus (after fifty-seven minutes), 2.
• During the day, tingling in toes of right foot (second day), 2.