Elaps Corallinus elaps.

Elaps corallinus. Brazilian Coral Snake. N. O. Elapidæ. Poison pressed from the venom-sac of the living snake and triturated with sugar of milk. Higgins used the gall of the snake, Fel Elapidis Corallini .

Amaurosis. Axilla, itching in. Cancer. Deafness. Ear, affections of. Ear, wax in . Epistaxis. Hæmorrhages. Headache. Hemiplegia. Knee, pain in. Metrorrhagia. Naso-pharyngitis. Nose, stuffed. Ozæna. Phthisis. Pneumonia. Threat, ulcerated.

Elaps is distinguished from the other serpent venoms by the pre-eminent blackness of its discharges and hæmorrhages; black ear-wax. Characteristic symptoms are: Fruit and cold drinks lie like ice on stomach and cause a cold feeling in chest. Sensation as if all the blood were collected in head. E. V. Moffat has found Elaps 6 almost a specific in chronic naso-pharyngeal catarrh, with greenish crusts and subjective disagreeable odour. Rumbling in ears as of thunder. Sensation in brain as if shaken. Sensation as if food turned like a corkscrew on swallowing; as if intestines were twisted by a cord and strung together in a knot. Pains in the longs (especially right) are very marked: "Sensation within chest and at sternum, as if pleuræ were pulled off and the lungs violently drawn apart." Sensation as if a heavy load, iron bar, or weight on parts. Fluids roll audibly into stomach. The glands and skin of axilla are affected. (I cured with Elap . 200 a very old-standing case of irritating rash in axilla (right) with recurrent suppuration of axillary glands,) Periodicity is marked. Rest > , exertion < ; but walking > epistaxis, pain in stomach and lungs. Lying on abdomen > pain in stomach. Many symptoms are < at night. (Sudden deafness at night with roaring and cracking in ears.) Dreams of dead persons. Warmth of bed < . Great sensitiveness to cold: draught, wind, wet weather < . Horror of rain. Touch < .

Antidoted by: Radiated heat, Alcohol, Arsen. Compare: Arsen., Carb. v., Crotal., Lach., Mur. ac., Nit. ac., Rhus t.; (red spot before sight) Duboisia; (effects of cold, wet weather) Dulc.

Absence of mind. ─ Depression of spirits; desire for solitude. ─ Fear of being left alone, as if something horrible might happen. ─ Apprehensive of some fatal disease. ─ Angry about one's self, and does not wish to be spoken to.

Vertigo; falls forward. ─ Pain in the cerebellum, r. side. ─ Fulness in head, as if all the blood were collected in it; fears apoplexy; with cold hands. ─ Severe stitching pains in forehead, with heaviness of head; occasionally pain intermits, 8-10 days, thundering in l. ear, deafness, lachrymation. ─ Violent pain in vertex (afternoon), as if the brain were shaking, with nausea, which prevents her from keeping the head quiet. ─ Congestion of blood to the head on stooping. ─ Stinging headache, with sleeplessness. ─ Weight in the forehead; pain in the forehead. ─ Lancinating headache, first in l. side of the head, extending to r. side. ─ Headache in occiput after mental exertion.

Stye on l. eye, with lancination. ─ Red eyelids. ─ Tickling and red streaks of the sclerotica. ─ Large red, fiery spots before the eyes; red bar before the eyes, when opening them. ─ Dryness and burning in both eyes on waking; bloated around the eyes in the morning. ─ Eyes red and inflamed; blear-eyed. ─ Glassy look. ─ When closing the eyes everything looks (dirty) red; dotted with black points. ─ Violent itching in the l. eye. ─ Aversion to light; desire to close the eyes; everything seems white even at night; grey veil before eyes; on stooping rush of blood to head with vertigo and pain at root of nose; can scarcely distinguish light from dark. ─ Amaurosis.

Buzzing in r. ear. ─ Crackling in ears on swallowing. ─ Itching in the ears. ─ Cerumen black and hardened. ─ Illusions of hearing; hears whistling and ringing; imagines he hears some one talk. ─ Discharge of a serous fluid or greenish-yellow liquid from (l.) ear (in the morning). ─ Offensive otorrhœa with eruptions. ─ Crusty eruptions on ear and cheek. ─ Discharge of blood from the ear. ─ Sudden deafness at night with constant roaring and cracking. ─ Hearing of both ears impaired; otalgia of r.

Bad smell (like putrid herring pickle) from the nose. ─ Stoppage of the nostrils (high up, with dull aching in forehead); coryza from the least current of air. ─ White and watery mucus is discharged from the nose. ─ Epistaxis: sudden, profuse, while walking; after a blow. ─ Blood black, copious, in steady stream.

Dark complexion. ─ Lancinations from root of nose to ear. ─ Redness and swelling of r. cheek, with chilliness all over the body. ─ Redness, heat, and formication in r. cheek. ─ Swelling of face, extending to r. side of the nose. ─ Red blotches on bloated face.

Tongue black or dark red. ─ Tongue swollen and whitish in morning. ─ Pricking at tip of tongue.

Naso-pharyngeal catarrh, greenish crusts, subjective disagreeable odour. ─ Dull pain from nares to ears; < by swallowing; posterior wall of pharynx dry, fissured, covered with crusts. ─ The beverage is arrested in œsophagus, as from a spasmodic contraction. ─ Constriction in pharynx with pressure in the throat. ─ Ulceration of throat, < l. side, difficult swallowing of liquids; recurring from exposure to wind or rain.

Vomiting of green bile, followed by diarrhœa. ─ Acidity of the stomach, with nausea and faint feeling; sour eructations. ─ Violent thirst; cold feeling in the chest after drinking. ─ Hunger, with violent headache if not satisfied at once. ─ Vomiting of mucus, with fainting. ─ Fruit and cold drinks feel like ice in the stomach. ─ Burning in stomach. ─ Weight in stomach, with nausea, after eating. ─ Sudden pains in stomach, as if she must sink down; < while sitting, > on walking about.

Lancinations from both groins to symphysis pubis. ─ Colic, with urging to stool. ─ The intestines feel twisted, as if by a cord, and strung together in a knot, with strangulating sensation. ─ Sensation as if the blood in the abdomen were flowing backward.

Diarrhœa, blackish, frothy, yellowish, watery, with mucus and rumbling; bile; bloody mucus. ─ Discharge of black, liquid blood from the bowels and at stool, with colic and sensation as if the bowels were twisted. ─ Prolapsus ani. ─ Constriction of the sphincter, after bloody stool. ─ Crawling at anus as if from worms.

Red urine, with cloudy sediment. ─ Thick urine, with red sediment. ─ Suppression of urine; strangury. ─ Discharge of mucus from urethra.

Impotence. ─ Weight and swelling of the testes. ─ Discharge of prostatic fluid. ─ The skin of the prepuce is thick and inflamed.

Discharge of black blood between the menses. ─ Menses every two or three weeks; flow profuse, dark. ─ Weight at the uterus; at the vagina, after an hysteric attack. ─ Itching in the vagina; formication at the vulva. ─ Sensation as of something burst in womb, followed by continuous stream of dark-coloured blood on attempting to urinate.

Dry cough, which ends in raising black blood. ─ Taste of blood in the mouth, before coughing. ─ Constant cough, with frightful pains throughout lungs as if they were torn out ( < r. apex). ─ Stitches in the upper part of each lung; better when walking. ─ Oppressed breathing in the evening; < on going up stairs.

Feeling as of heavy load on chest. ─ Constriction of the chest. ─ Coldness in chest after drinking. ─ Sensation in chest and at sternum as if pleuræ were pulled off and the lungs violently torn apart. ─ Stitches in l. chest; worse when breathing. ─ Pleuritic pain r. side, felt in axilla. ─ Cannot lean to r. side on account of a very painful pulling in r. lung. ─ Sensitiveness of r. side.

Spitting of black blood, with painful tearing, as if proceeding from the heart. ─ Palpitation of the heart, with anxiety and trembling of the hands.

Stiffness in the r. side of neck. ─ Lancinations in l. side of neck. ─ Painful pressure at nape of neck. ─ Lancinations in the whole spinal marrow, from occiput to sacrum. ─ Pressure between the shoulders. ─ Coldness in back. ─ Pain in the back, with chilliness, cold feet, and strangury.

Itching under axilla, with tetter. ─ Inflamed and suppurating glands in axilla. ─ The arms and hands are swollen, bluish, covered with red spots; also r. leg and foot. ─ Crampy constriction at bend of elbow, extending to hand, as if one had carried a heavy weight. ─ Pricking in the l. upper arm. ─ Hot rash on r. wrist. ─ The r. hand feels as if paralysed. ─ The tips of the fingers peel off.

Cramps in the calves. ─ Icy coldness of r. leg. ─ Rheumatic pains in l. leg. ─ Sensation of spraining and stiffness in knee-joint. ─ The l. foot is swollen and blue, with red spots. ─ Pricking under toenails.

Red pimples at the tips of the fingers. ─ The tips of the fingers peel off. ─ Little pimples, followed by desquamation. ─ Yellow spots on the hands and fingers. ─ Red tetter from the corner of the r. nostril to the cheek.

Sleeplessness from lancinating headache. ─ Dreams of business, of dead persons.

Sensitive to cold. ─ The arm shudders when dipping the hand into water. ─ Coldness in the back. ─ Dry heat, at midnight; cannot endure any cover. ─ With the fever, oppression of breathing. ─ Flushes of heat in evening, with, redness and heat of face and ears. ─ Chill at, noon, without thirst, followed by dry heat in afternoon, without perspiration. ─ Cold perspiration all over.