Tarentula Hispanica tarent.

Adapted to highly nervous organisms, especially choleric affections where whole body, or right arm and left leg are affected (left arm and right leg, Agar.). Constant movement of the legs, arms, trunk, with inability to do anything; twitching and jerking of muscles. Restlessness, could not keep quiet in any position; must keep in motion, though walking < all symptoms (rev. of Rhus, Ruta). Hyperaesthesia: least excitement irritates, followed by languid sadness; extreme of tips of fingers. Slight touch along the spine provokes spasmodic pain in chest and cardiac region. Headache: intense, as if thousands of needles were pricking the brain. Absceses, boils, felons, affected parts of a bluish color (Lach.), and atrocious burning pain (Anth., Ars.); the agony of a felon, compelling patient to walk the floor for nights. Malignant ulcers; carbuncle, anthrax; gangrene. Symptoms appear periodically. Headache, neuralgic < by noise, touch, strong light, > by rubbing head against pillow. At every menstrual nisus, throat, mouth and tongue intolerably dry, specially when sleeping (Nux m.). Sexual excitement extreme even to mania; spasms of uterus pruritis vulva becomes intolerable.

Similar: to, Apis, Crot., Lach., Plat., Mygale, Naja, Ther.

Motion; contact; touch of affected parts; noise; change of weather.

In open air; music; rubbing affected parts. Termini of nerves becomes so irritated and sensitive that some kind of friction was necessary to obtain refief.

Spanish Spider

Remarkable nervous phenomena; hysteria with chlorosis; chorea, dysmenorrhœa, spinal irritability. Bladder tenesmus. Constriction sensations. Formication; Extreme restlessness; must keep in constant motion even though walking aggravates. Hysterical epilepsy. Intense sexual excitement.

Sudden alteration of mood. Foxy. Destructive impulses; moral relaxation. Must constantly busy herself or walk. Sensitive to music. Averse to company, but wants some one present. Ungrateful, discontented. Guided by whims.

Intense pain, as if thousands of needles were pricking into brain. Vertigo. Wants hair brushed or head rubbed.

Sexual excitement; lasciviousness reaching almost to insanity; seminal emissions.

Palpitation; præcordial anguish, sensation as if heart twisted and turned around.

Vulva dry and hot, with much itching. Profuse menstruation, with frequent erotic spasms. Pruritus vulvæ; nymphomania. Dysmenorrhœa, with very sensitive ovaries.

Weakness of legs; choreic movements. Numbness of legs. Multiple sclerosis, with trembling. Twitching and jerking. Yawning with uneasiness of legs, must move them constantly. Extraordinary contractions and movements.

Worse, motion, contract, noise. Better, in open air, music, bright colors, rubbing affected parts. Worse, seeming others in trouble.

Compare: Agar; Ars; Cupr; Mag phos.

Antidotes: Lach.

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Lycosa tarentula. Tarantula. N. O. Araneideæ. Tincture of the living spiders.

Angina pectoris. Callosities. Chorea. Coccygodynia. Cornea, opacity of. Cystitis. Depression of spirits . Diphtheria. Dysmenorrhœa. Epistaxis. Erotomania . Fibroma. Headache. Hiccough. Hysteria . Intermittents. Kleptomania. Levitation . Locomotor ataxy. Mania. Ménière's disease. Migraine. Onanism. Ovaries, enlargement of. Paralysis; agitans. Physometra. Proctalgia. Pruritus pudendi. Quinsy. Septic diseases. Spinal irritation. Spinal sclerosis. Tumours. Uterus, cancer of; neuralgia of. Vertebræ, tumours of.

The name Tarentula covers a number of poisonous spiders, but in homœopathy, unless otherwise distinguished, it refers to Tarentula hispanica, Lycosa tarentula . Nunez is our chief authority. He instigated the proving and collected much outside information bearing on the action of the poison. "Tarantella" is a dance named from the city of Tarentum. "Tarantism" is a dancing mania, set up in persons bitten by the Tarentula , or in those who imagine themselves bitten. The cure is music and dancing. Here are two illustrations from C. D. P .: ( 1 ) Girl, three months old, was bitten by a tarentula. She appeared at first uneasy, then exhibited dyspnœa, and complained, showed signs of suffocation, vomited, was agitated and much convulsed. Music was played; movements of the limbs were set up, whence resulted profuse sweat, followed by sleep and complete recovery. ( 2 ) Francis Mustel, a peasant, was bitten by a tarentula on the left hand, about the middle of July, as he was gathering corn. He went home with his companions but on the way fell as if struck by apoplexy. Dyspnœa followed, and face, hands, and feet became dark. Knowing the remedy, his companions fetched musicians. When the patient heard their playing he began to revive, to sigh, to move first his feet, then his hands, and then the whole body; at last getting on his feet he took to dancing violently, with sighing so laboured that the bystanders were almost frightened. At times he rolled himself on the ground and struck it vehemently with his feet. Two hours after the music began the blackness of his face and hands went off, he sweated freely, and regained perfect health. Every succeeding year at the same season the pain and attending symptoms returned, but less violently; and they could always be averted by music. But if the imminent paroxysm was not averted in time, he was found by his friends struck down as at first and was restored in the same way. These cases bring out some of the cardinal features of Trn . ( 1 ) Dark red or purplish coloration and swelling of skin and tissue. ( 2 ) Apparent imminent choking. ( 3 ) Choreic movements; restlessness. ( 4 ) > By music: music at first excites and subsequently relieves. ( 5 ) Periodicity; deep action returning annually on the date of the bite. Trn . is a remedy of synalgias and concomitants: Neuralgia of inferior maxillary nerve accompanying pain with irritation in pit of stomach. Snapping and pain in ear associated with hiccough. Throat and eye. Heat of face with heat of palms. Faint feeling in stomach with frontal headache. Many symptoms take their rise from the generative sphere, which is profoundly affected. Desire is excited in both sexes to the point of mania. Coitus only < the sufferings of both. In one male prover the semen was bloody and caused a sensation of heat in its passage. The sexual desire was so excited in one woman that when playing or dancing with men she hugged them before everybody; and was angry when reproved, but did it again. The periods were scanty and pale with severe pains in teeth and buttocks; at times she had a desire to take things which did not belong to her; the "Tarantella" played on the violin produced no effect on her, but as soon as she took in her arms a little girl, she began to cry until it was taken away. Cuttings and contractions in uterus; shootings in vagina; swelling and induration of uterus; expulsion of gas from uterus; pains in other parts associated with uterine pains; restlessness, hysteria. The restlessness is particularly noted in the lower extremities, with desire to cry: must keep moving about though walking < all the symptoms. Many of the mental symptoms, which almost exhaust the protean range of hysteria, were in connection with sexual disorders; sighing, yawning; laughing and crying; joking and profound melancholy. The unceasing movements — twitching jerking, dancing — are the most constant features. There is hysterical hyperæsthesia: the least excitement irritates, followed by languid sadness; great excitability of nerve endings; tips of fingers extremely sensitive; feels sore and bruised all over, < moving about; spinal irritation, slightest touch along spine = spasmodic pain in chest and heart regions. Farrington gives among the mental symptoms: "When there are no observers there is no hysteria; when attention is directed to her she begins to twitch"; and "cunning attempts to feign paroxysms of wild dancing." The chorea of Trn . is most marked on right side. The neuralgias of Trn . may be anywhere; in the head they are of great intensity: "as if thousands of needles were pricking to the brain. They are < by noise, touch, strong light, > by rubbing head against pillow. (" > By rubbing" is a keynote Condition of Trn ." Termini of nerves become so irritated that some kind of friction is necessary in order to obtain relief.") Constrictive headache with pain in uterus. P. C. Majumdar ( Ind. H. R ., v. 43) reports this case: Girl, 18, had oppression of chest, suffocating sensation, continued jerking and movement of hands, foam at mouth, complete insensibility, profuse and delaying menses; very sleepy. Hystero-epilepsy was diagnosed. Ign . 30 did nothing. Trn ., high, brought her out of the fit and restored her completely in a few minutes. But Trn . is not a hysteric remedy only. C. M. Boger ( Hahn. Ad ., xxxviii. 40) cured a case of irritative cough with Trn . 30: Mr. B., 41, sore all over, throat feels dry, cough lying down at night and in morning after rising; dry with tearing pain in chest; excited by pressure of phlegm in chest feels short of breath for at least an hour after each coughing attack only > from smoking . Bad taste evening. Three doses cured. Diphtheria; tonsillitis of an intensity to threaten suffocation; cystitis; septic and intermittent fevers have been successfully met in Trn . on its indications. In M. A ., xvii. 568 a case of hyperæsthesia of finger-tips is mentioned. The patient, a lady, 33, could not dress herself without gloves. The irritation caused at once a sensation in the teeth as if set on edge by a strong acid . The pain was not in the fingers. Trn . gave relief after Asar., Gels ., and Sul. ac . had failed. Among peculiarities of Trn . are: Stools occur immediately the head is washed. Wetting hands in cold water = symptoms. Snapping and cracking in right ear with pain and hiccough. One pupil dilated, the other contracted. Farrington relates a case of typhoid in a child cured by Trn . The child rolled its head and bit its nightgown. Apis . and Agn . improved. Trn . slightly aggravated at first, then rapidly improved. Peculiar Sensations are: As if head were knocked, in morning. As if thousands of needles were pricking into brain. As if occiput were struck with a hammer (this sensation as if hammered occurs in many parts and may be considered a general indication). As of a hair in eye. Singing like a tea-kettle in left ear. As if lower teeth were going to fall out. As if a living body in stomach rising to throat. As if body were bruised. As if there were not sufficient space in hypogastrium. Painful uneasiness in coccyx. Motion in uterus as of a fœtus. As of something crawling up legs under skin from feet to uterus. As if heart turned and twisted round. Heart as if squeezed and compressed. As of needles sticking into muscle of neck when touched. As of insects creeping and crawling. Tickling, burning, scorching, and numbness are prominent sensations. Trn . is suited to nervous, hysterical patients subject to choreic affections; to persons of foxy, mischievous, and destructive tendency; to choreic affections when whole body or right arm and left leg are involved. The symptoms are: < By touch. Rubbing > . Pressure > . Music > ; = excitement. Rest < . Must walk about but walking < all symptoms. Can run better than walk. Motion > headache, < uterine pains and pains in coccyx. < At night. < Washing head. < Wetting hands in cold water. Fresh air > . Warm water > . Coitus < . Light < ; = to scream. Cough = headache; involuntary urination. < After sleep. > Riding in carriage (pain in spermatic cords). Epistaxis > throbbing in carotids, &c.

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Complete loss of memory.
Great taciturnity and irritability ; desire to strike himself and others.
Profound grief and anxiety.
Consciousness of unnatural state of mind, hence despondency, sadness, moral depression, disgust for everything.
Mental chorea ; hyperemia and hyperesthesia of female sexual organs.
Hysteria, with bitter belching and repeated yawning, > by lying down and by music ; restlessness of hands and legs ; constant motion, cannot remain in one place ; heat in epigastrium.
Fits of nervous laughter.
Desire to joke, to play and to laugh ; extreme gayety.
Great excitement caused by music ; one hour after it, copious and general perspiration.
Singing until hoarse and exhausted.
Nervous excitement ; hysteria and mania ; restlessness and dreaming.
Sudden foxlike destructive efforts, requiring utmost vigilance to prevent damage ; followed by laughter and apologies.
Cross, tendency to get angry and to speak abruptly ; is obliged to move limbs.
Paroxysms of insanity ; restlessness of legs ; threatening words of destruction and death.
Suddenly sprang away from her attendants and swept ornaments from mantelpiece ; said she was sorry, but could not help it ; very mischievous and destructive, amusing and cheerful ; at times pain in left ovary.
Attacks of hystero-mania appearing daily about same hour, beginning with great nervous irritability, despondency and quarrelsome mood ; sudden transition from this state to one of great exaltation, hits and abuses every one, destroys whatever she can lay hold of, tears her clothing,
sings and laughs ; mocks aged people with their old age, if restrained becomes violent ; attacks end in a comatose sleep, during which she answers questions correctly ; after waking remembers but little of what has occurred ; during first part of attack pulse is slow,
artery greatly contracted ; during second stage pulse frequent and full ; thirstlessness and loss of appetite ; pressure and confusion of head.
While in a highly nervous state from too close application to musical studies, was operated upon to remove lens of eye by absorption ; this was followed by great nervous depression and prostration, with occasional symptoms of mental aberration ; was then treated several months
for a retroverted and inflamed uterus, without mental improvement ; severe pain through right eye extending to occiput and nose ; restlessness ; cold feet ; mahogany-colored and large papular eruption upon face, particularly large in region of malar bone ; sleepless
and nervous and very troublesome ; retroversion, with swollen uterus ; finally violent, soils bed with feces and urine ; furious ; sings loud and continuously, with laughter ; no sleep for five days ; thirst ; suddenly springs from bed destroying whatever
she could get hold of, this was done so quickly that she could not be prevented. θ Insanity.

Vertigo : falls to ground without losing consciousness ; malaise, belching, nausea, bloating of stomach, gagging and efforts to vomit, with vomiting of food ; after breakfast, with a bad taste in mouth ; when fixing sight on any object, with headache,
severe pain in cerebellum, accompanied by incomplete erection of penis, and formication in soft palate.

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This terrible poison should never be used except in attenuations.

The nervous manifestations of this remedy are almost indescribable and too numerous to mention.

Anxiety and restlessness are words that prevail through all the conditions in it. It is much like Ars. The anxiety is felt sometimes in the mind, sometimes in the whole body, sometimes in the limbs and in the stomach.

Cardiac anxiety is a strong feature. A strong aversion to colors, such as green, red and black. Depraved imaginations prevail through all the proving. Loss of all shame.

Desire to run about, to dance and jump up and down. Great fantastic dancing. Sometimes, music ameliorates all the symptoms and it other times it aggravates them. He becomes violently excited from music.

Emaciation is so marked that it may be said sometimes that the flesh falls off from him. Creeping and crawling in the skin all over the body. Paralysis of any part of the body, or of all the limbs.

Trembling and jerking convulsions. It has an appearance very much like St. Vitus' Dance and hence has cured chorea when it was better from music. But it will also cure when worse from music.

The extreme restlessness of the limbs is like Ars., and it is a deep acting medicine like Ars., and it sometimes has cured where Ars. has failed, although it seemed well selected. Anxiety, restlessness, constant motion of the arms, legs, trunk and head. Restlessness of the limbs in the evening, in bed before going to sleep, like Ars. and Lyc.

It is full of pains in the body and limbs; pains in the bones; pains in the. arms and in the joints. Periodicity is so well marked that it has been a marked curative remedy in intermittent fevers with restlessness of limbs, with aching of the bones, with stitching pains, with the anxiety, especially when these come in the evening and the fever lasts all night.

Chill in the evening followed by fever without sweat is a marked feature.

The patient himself is always sensitive to cold, so the pains in the limbs are worse in cold air and from becoming cold.

Cold damp weather aggravates all the symptoms. Walking in the open air when not cold ameliorates most of his symptoms. Open air ameliorates, rubbing ameliorates.

There is weakness of all the limbs. Violent pains in the bowels and in the bladder. Burning is a strong symptom, in many parts, but especially in the rectum; in the palms and soles and in the uterus. It is one of our high grade remedies for hysterical women.

He is inclined to walk in his sleep. Excessive hyperesthesia; all the symptoms are worse from grief and excitement. When choreic symptoms are present he can run better than he can walk.

Impairment of memory. Great irritability. In the hysterical symptoms she is better from music. Her motions are ludicrous and she is even lascivious in her conduct. Great excitement from music; she sings until she falls with exhaustion. Fox-like cunning and destructiveness. Paroxysms of insanity with restlessness of the legs and threatening words.

When questioned she does not answer. Frequently imagines that she has been insulted. Dementia with great sadness. Excitement with singing, dancing and weeping. She sees monsters, animals, faces, insects and ghosts. She sees strangers in the room. Tarentula patients feign all sorts of sickness, especially fainting. They not only imagine themselves sick, but they pretend to be sick when they are not.

Aversion to red, green and black and all striking colors. She pulls her own hair and presses her hands upon her head. Constantly, complaining and threatening; threatens her nurse and her attendants; she strikes her head with her hands; she strikes her body; strikes her attendants and her best friends.

Violence is a strong feature of the remedy. Violence with anger. Tears his clothing. Consolation causes weeping.

The mental symptoms are better in the evening after eating. Many physical symptoms are worse in the evening, especially the febrile conditions.

A desire to lie down in the dark and not be talked to. She has many insane ideas, one is that she wants to hide because she imagines that she will be assaulted. Angered from contradiction.

Frequent attacks of dizziness, even so great that she falls to the ground. Dizziness comes on in the night; when descending stairs. Dizziness with rush of blood to the head and dizziness when fixing the eyes upon objects.

The head symptoms are also very numerous.

Contortions and jerking of the head. Constantly rubs the head against something, sometimes it is the pillow when in bed. Throws the head from side to side, here and there.

She has a sensation of hammers in the head. Burning heat in the head. Headache in the evening; in the morning on waking. Cannot open the eyes. Bending head forward aggravates. Pains are pressing and often wander around from place to place in the head; violent pain in the occiput and temples at the same time.

Eyes are staring, spasmodically wide open.

Dim vision usually worse in the right eye. Severe pain in the right eye. Sensation of sand or splinters in the eyes. Itching in the eyes. Burning, worse in the right eye.

Photophobia is marked. It will therefore be seen that the right eye is more affected. Many symptoms of the body are confined to the right side.

Discharge from the cars profuse.

Violent pains in the ear. Stinging in the meatus. Dullness of hearing. Dull pains in the right ear; tearing pains in the right ear.

Buzzing and whizzing and dizziness. Ringing as of bells in the ear on waking in the morning. The right ear is most affected.

It has many catarrhal symptoms in the nose.

Dryness and burning; sneezing with the coryza and bleeding from the nose.

The acute and chronic nasal symptoms are worse on the right side.

The face looks sickly and has the appearance of terror.

Tearing pains in the teeth. Pain in the angle of the inferior maxilla as if the teeth would fall out.

There is inflammation of the throat and tonsils, worse on the right side.

Pain in the right tonsil extending to the ear.

Shooting pain in the throat. Pain and constriction on swallowing. It has cured Diphtheria. The throat is much swollen externally and there is high fever.

Aversion to food; aversion to meat especially, though craves raw food.

Thirst for cold water. Has nausea and vomiting. Has bitter eructations. Has an empty all-gone feeling in the stomach, an anxious feeling in the stomach. Vomits all food taken. Burning pain in the stomach.

There is burning in the abdomen that extends down through the intestines. Burning in the rectum. Sharp pain in the spleen.

The liver is painful to touch and is swollen. Pain in both sides of the abdomen. The abdomen is distended with flatus. Subject to much colic. Shooting pains in the abdomen, anus and vagina at the same time.

Women who have been poisoned by the Tarentula were found to have fibroid tumors in the abdomen and uterus. Severe pains in the lower abdomen.

It has cured most terrible and alarming constipation after cathartics and injections failed to effect a movement. The symptoms that guide to it are the continual tossing, anxiety, restlessness, rolling from side to side and rubbing the head against the pillow.

There is no desire for stool. With the stool there is much blood. In the rectum there is pain, smarting, tenesmus and in the abdomen colic. Most difficult stool. It also has diarrhoea with nausea and vomiting.

Diarrhoea has been brought on after washing the hair attended with dark foetid stool.

Many toxicological symptoms are found. Sugar in the urine and it has cured diabetes; diabetes with grief, anxiety, weakness and bruised pain all through the body.

There is involuntary urination when coughing.

Many pains in the kidneys. Most difficult urination and it has cured renal colic. In the pathogenesis the symptoms are much like cystitis and it has cured inflammation of the bladder.

In keeping with these general symptoms there is spasmodic action of the bladder; spasmodic retention of urine; copious urine with emaciation and sugar. Pain in the urethra, drawing after urination. Copious sand in the urine, and the urine is foetid.

There is uncontrollable sexual desire and he seems in a state of mind wherein he has no desire to control himself and his sexual passions; lasciviousness almost to insanity. Onanism followed by prostatic troubles.

Seminal emissions; semen is bloody; pain in the genitals; testes relaxed and painful; pain in the groin; the penis is swollen; tumor in both testicles; pains in the spermatic cords and testes, with swelling; drawing pains in the spermatic cords.

In the female also there is violent, uncontrollable sexual erethism.

Menstrual flow too early and copious. Violent itching of the genitals extending far up into the vagina, worse at night. Pain and violent cramps in the uterus. Nymphomania has been cured by this remedy.

Coition intensifies the desire and is followed by no relief. Extreme hyperesthesia of the genitals. Fibroid tumors have been cured. Great relaxation of the muscles and displacement of the uterus. Strong bearing down feeling in the pelvis. Burning in the uterus; swelling and induration of the uterus.

Violent cramps with burning in the uterus with nausea and vomiting. The uterus is extremely sensitive to pressure. Contracting pains of the uterus are labor-like and such as are often found in abortion. Shooting pains, in the genitals.

It has been a very useful remedy in complaints of the air passages.

Constantly scraping of larynx and trachea to clear them of MUCUS. Loss of voice and hoarseness; loss of voice when talking. Dryness in the larynx and trachea. Burning from the throat down into the chest.

It is very rich in cough symptoms. Dry frequent cough, worse in the evening dry spasmodic cough with retching, with gagging, on every effort to expectorate; cough with involuntary urination; cough with smarting in the larynx and bronchial tubes; night cough.

Again dry cough in the morning. It has a loose cough with thick yellow expectoration in the morning.

It has great difficulty in breathing very much like that which is found in cardiac troubles, such a pressure upon the chest with panting respiration and suffocative catarrh. Oppression in the chest when raising the arms and when lying on the left side. Rheumatic pains. Many pains through and in the chest.

It has numerous heart symptoms. It has cured palpitation with mitral murmurs and sensation of trembling in the heart with irregular pulse; extreme anxiety. in the heart; tumultuous beating of the heart sudden thumping in the heart as from fright but when not frightened.

Constant want of air and desire for fresh air and sensation as if the heart turned over; a sensation as if the heart were squeezed or compressed. It has cured angina pectoris and it has many symptoms of the heart like angina pectoris.

Upon the back there are boils, abscesses and carbuncles, especially on the back of the neck and between the shoulder blades.

Violent pain in the lumbar region. Violent pains under the scapula, worse from motion.

Rheumatic pains in the whole back. Pain in the shoulder blades. Neck is stiff and painful on motion. It is a great remedy for soreness of the spinal column, or spinal irritation, pressure aggravates and touch aggravates.

The symptoms of the limbs are too numerous to mention; only a few can be spoken of.

Weakness, numbness and restlessness are always present. Rheumatic pains are numerous. The pains of the limbs are so great that he cannot stand the weight of the clothing. Heaviness and numbness of the upper limbs.

Pain in the arm as if squeezed. Heart pains and many pains of the shoulders. Burning pains are very numerous; rheumatic tearing pains. Must move the hands constantly and pick the fingers from nervousness.

There is numbness of the left upper extremity and right lower. Paralysis of the lower limbs with pain in the back on motion. Restlessness of the lower limbs with constant desire to cry. (Ars.).

Fatigue and pain in the evening. In the lower limbs there is numbness which changes to a drawing in the muscles. Restlessness in the lower limbs with aching pain during the chill in intermittent fever.

Hard pain in the hips during the night. Pain in the hips and coccyx in the evening while sitting; strong desire to jump. Pains in the nates beginning at 6 A.M. and lasting until evening. Pain in the thighs, as if bandaged when walking, shooting pains in the thighs.

He is moving the legs constantly; heaviness in the legs; bruised pains in the legs; shooting pains in the right tendon-Achilles, he must walk the floor in the evening, like Ars. It is much like Ars., going from chair to chair and from bed to bed, walking the floor.

Sleeplessness before midnight is very marked.

Itching, biting and creeping all over the body marked in the limbs.

Itching and burning. It has cured a dry itching eczema of the extremities and other parts of the skin after Ars. and Sulph. have failed. It is a very deep acting, long acting remedy and a most useful remedy in skin affections.

Adapted to highly nervous organisms, especially choreic affections where whole body, or right arm and left leg are affected (of l. arm and r. leg, Agar.).

Constant movement of the legs, arms, trunk, with inability to do anything; twitching and jerking of muscles.

Restlessness, could not keep quiet in any position; must keep in motion, though walking < all symptoms (rev. of Rhus,

Ruta).

Hyperæsthesia: least excitement irritates, followed by lan- guid sadness; extreme, of tips of fingers.

Slight touch along the spine provokes spasmodic pain in chest and cardiac region.

Headache; intense, as if thousands of needles were pricking in the brain.

Abscesses, boils, felons, affected parts of a bluish color (Lach.), and atrocious burning pain (Anth., Ars., Euphor.); the agony of a felon, compelling patient to walk the floor for nights.

Malignant ulcers; carbuncle, anthrax; gangrene.

Symptoms appear periodically.

Headache, neuralgic < by noise, touch, stronger light, > by pressure and rubbing head against the pillow.

At every menstrual nisus, throat, mouth and tongue intolerably dry, especially when sleeping (Nux m.).

Sexual excitement extreme even to mania; spasms of uterus; pruritus vulva becomes intolerable.

Similar: to, Apis, Crot., Lach., Plat., Mygale, Naja, Ther.

Motion; contact; touch of affected parts; noise; change of weather.

In open air; music; rubbing affected parts.

Termini of nerves became so irritated and sensitive that some kind of friction is necessary to obtain relief.

Intermittent, remittent, nervous typhoid, toxæmic, septic; fevers of tropics.

Constant pain in hepatic region, with nausea and vomiting.

Predominant cold stage. Constant coldness for days. Intense coldness, with shaking; blueness of nails and fingers (Nux); lasting two or three hours.

Chills and fever with choreic convulsions; shakes almost constantly with involuntary movements of limbs, abdomen, chest, face < l. side; could not speak, tongue and pharynx involved; after a severe scolding or punishment (Ign.).

Without thirst. Scorching intense heat of whole body alternating with icy coldness; skin of a scarlet color; during heat continued coldness of feet; great dryness of mouth, no thirst (Nux m., Puls.); lasted five or six hours, lies in a comatose condition with eyes closed.

Profuse for three or four hours, followed by debility and prostration.

Coated yellowish; loss of appetite; dry mouth.

General emaciation, especially of face; skin yellow, jaundiced; marked hepatic derangement for months preceding attack.

Choreic, hysterical, nervous subjects. Predominant coldness; scorching heat, with dry mouth, without thirst; comatose condition or convulsions. Hepatic pain, nausea and vomiting generally precede attack in chronic cases.

The live Spanish spider is triturated with sugar of milk.

(The remarkable nervous symptoms require confirmation.).

Yelled and fell down, was carried to the house in agony, smarting pain, hot and cold, starting from the bite to small of back and then returning to the bite, this alternating pain lasted all night. ▶ Falling suddenly as if struck by apoplexy, then shortness of breath, blackness of face, hands, etc., he revived as he heard music, sighed, moved first his feet then hands and rest of body, and on being raised to his feet danced vigorously, sighed deeply, rolled upon the ground, kicked vigorously, the dance was repeated for three days and he was restored by the perspiration thus induced, but each year, about the time of the bite, pain reappeared in the affected part with the above symptoms in less intensity, again amel. music and dancing. ▶ Stretched upon the ground and seemed about to expire, when he heard the music he got up as quick as lightning, seemed awakened by a frightful vision, stared wildly, about, still, moving every joint, when I stopped playing he fell down in an instant and cried, every part was distorted, he scraped the earth with his hands, on hearing the music again he arose as before and danced wildly, keeping perfect time but jumping and running to and fro, making comical postures, somewhat like Chinese dances, and everything he did was very wild. ▶ Twitching, agg. arms, alternating with opisthotonos. ▶ Convulsions; and subsultus in all limbs, penis erect, abdominal muscles contracted and rigid.

Pain and swelling; P. immediately in bitten part, he fell to the ground, with coldness of body, bristling of hair, tension of trunk, weakness of legs, sighing, complaints, said that he was suffocating, wished to cry out but could not, on hearing music the next morning he began to dance, was bathed in sweat was sleepless for a week, drank pure wine, had no stool for four days, desired nothing, wished to be bathed with water liked a red color, pursued anything blue, tore it to pieces and trampled it under foot at night he held his heels in his hands to scratch them, in which manner he could sleep a little, ate little or nothing, but dancing for almost a week, he was cured by sweat and music.

A few hours after the bite, anguish of heart, dejection, difficulty in breathing, they complain in a mournful voice, roll their eyes, when asked where they suffer do not reply or place the hand upon the heart, the symptoms vary according to the variety of Tarentula, the temperament of the patient and the degree of summer heat, the T. in northern Apulia are fiercer and the symptoms severer, the patients are charmed by various colors, green, blue, etc., rarely by dark colors, at the sight of an annoying color anguish of heart and renewal of symptoms, the T. subalbida causes slight pain followed by itching, sharp pain in abdomen and diarrhœa, the T. stellata causes severer pain and itching, stupor, heaviness and pain in head, general trembling, etc., the T. uvea causes, besides the above symptoms, swelling, great pain in the bitten part, spasm, chill, cold sweat of whole body, aphonia, nausea, tension of trunk and chest, distention of abdomen, etc., in general, after the severer symptoms have declined, there is a peculiar melancholy, a bending forward of neck, sometimes amel. music or dancing, desperation, they court dissolution, otherwise virtuous women sigh deeply, howl, make indecent gestures, expose their sexual organs, etc., others like to whip buttocks, feet, back, etc., others have great desire to run.

▶ Restlessness, must keep in motion though walking aggravates the symptoms. ▶ Weakness; so that he could hardly be moved from side to side, with constriction of chest and anguish of heart. ▶ When urged to dance she replied with tears that she could not on account of pain in joints of feet and weakness. ▶ Return of all symptoms every year at the time of the bite, all symptoms, amel. dancing. ▶ Aggravation of all symptoms from drinking two fluid ounces of whisky.

The Spanish Tarentula has been used very largely for hysteria, characterized by most violent alternation of moods, especially with sudden, stealthy and destructive impulses; its curative powers in these and other forms of mental disturbance rest upon a very slender basis, for it is probable that most of the mental symptoms attributed to the bite of this spider are purely imaginary. ▶ Hystero-epilepsy, with wild shrieks. ▶ Hysteria, with constant movement of the extremities, especially of the hands. ▶ Paralysis agitans. ▶ Chorea, especially of the extremities. ▶ Nocturnal chorea in children. ▶ General hyperæsthesia.

Dysmenorrhœa, with extremely sensitive ovaries. ▶ It has been used in various forms of disease of the sexual organs of women; chronic vaginitis, granular; induration of the cervix and body of uterus; cancerous ulceration of the os, with induration; subinvolution, with leucorrhœa, burning, smarting pain in the coccyx, amel. standing, uterine neuralgias, extending to the sacrum and spine, with convulsive movement. ▶ Intense pruritus of the vulva. ▶ Nymphomania. ▶ "Fidgets" in the legs, associated with menstrual irregularities.

Spinal irritability, the slightest touch causes spasmodic pains in chest. ▶ Multiple sclerosis, with trembling, intense pain at night.

Intermittent fever, with chorea-like convulsions.

Agitation. ▶ Melancholy, anguish, restlessness, peevishness, haste in whatever I undertook from fear that something would prevent my finishing it, I would start up and hastily change my position through fear that something would fall on me, when walking I would stop short or suddenly throw my head to one side through fear of striking it against an imaginary object which appeared to be suspended a few inches above my head, fear of impending calamity, desire to be alone, with fear of being alone, even during daylight frightful images as soon as the eyes closed, with inability to sleep.

Headache. ▶ Weakness of head. ▶ Eyes glaring, red. ▶ Eyes inflamed, conjunctiva injected, right pupil dilated, left contracted, vision lost in right eye, objects seen in left eye appeared bright red. ▶ Roaring and rumbling in ears, with dullness of hearing. ▶ Refuse hæmorrhage of black blood from nose, each drop coagulated and sank at once like a bullet to the bottom of a vessel partly filled with water, and formed a large black clot. ▶ Face pale, earthy, in strong contrast with the nearly purple neck. ▶ Countenance expressive of terror.

Tongue moist. ▶ Tongue coated dark-brown, edges and tip fiery red. ▶ Said that her tongue was drawn backward, so that she could not speak. ▶ Swelling of external throat. ▶ Throbbing pain in submaxillary and cervical glands, with occasional stinging. ▶ Fauces swollen, purplish, swallowing difficult, as from partial paralysis. ▶ Swallowing painful. ▶ Appetite lost. ▶ Thirst; burning, with internal heat; burning, with constant desire for large quantities of cold water. ▶ Vomiting, with incessant paroxysms of everything taken into stomach soon after eating, preceded by burning pain in stomach and œsophagus, which the V. relieved.

Colic, then fever, then fatal symptoms. ▶ Stools three or four times daily, dark, fetid, partly-formed, difficult, containing much mucus followed by smarting and burning at anus, stools always immediately on having head washed. ▶ Urine scanty, high-colored, passed with difficulty, a dense precipitate after standing.

Aphonia. ▶ Breathing difficult; with peculiar incessant sighing; B. short and hurried, agg. attempting to lie down. ▶ Pain at base of lungs when coughing or inhaling. ▶ Constriction of chest. ▶ Cheat expands with difficulty.

Anguish of heart; preventing lying down, did not go to bed nor sleep for four nights. ▶ Painful throbbing in carotids, amel. nosebleed, with fulness of head, agg. region of medulla oblongata. ▶ Pulse irregular.

Neck felt sore. ▶ Trembling of knees when standing, the joints felt stiff and sore. ▶ Knuckles and toes pain so that he cannot bear the lightest weight of linen. ▶ Legs and lower joints gradually became numb and insensible to pinching in the bitten part there was a reddish and almost livid tumor of the size of a lentil.

Inflammation of the bitten toe; I. of the scratch, with burning and itching in it, axillary, submaxillary and cervical glands swollen and sensitive to touch, nearly purple swelling of throat in a line from chin to sternum and in a line from occiput protuberance to scapulæ, the swelling amel. profuse nose bleed. ▶ Each year pain in the toes from the reopened wound, they were inflamed and a thin ichor exuded from the nails, deeply corroding the neighboring parts.

Inflamed pimple, with scarlet areola, with a red erysipelatous line from it marking the course of the spider after biting, the pimple and erysipelatous inflamed areola spread, chills followed by fever generally supervene on second or third day, with thirst, anxiety, restlessness, headache, delirium, sweat and retention of urine, the pimple, becomes a hard painful abscess ending in mortification of the integuments over it and having several small opening, discharging a thick sanious matter, containing pieces of mortified cellular tissue, fasciæ and tendons, the openings run into each other and form large cavities, now the fever becomes intermittent with evening paroxysms, accompanied by diarrhœa and prostration.

Felt a prick as from an ant or fly, with pain in joint of left ring finger (from bite on left forearm), next day the affected part was red and had a golden areola, on the third day the areola was swollen, with continuance of the pain, a black scab formed again and again, till on the fifteenth day the yellow circle reappeared. ▶ Burning on scalp, then vesicles resembling crusta lactea, five ulcers on different parts of scalp, which discharged thin greenish, offensive, ichorous pus, vesicles on different parts of body, soon becoming pustular and turning to ulcers.

Irresistible sleepiness. ▶ Sleeplessness. ▶ Chills spreading from lumbar region over whole body, agg. slightest cold draught and artificial heat. ▶ Cold sweat.

Extreme restlessness; must keep in constant motion, though walking seems to aggravate the symptoms.

Clinical:
Sudden alternations of moods, often with stealthy and destructive impulses.
Hystero-epilepsy, with shrieking.
Hysteria, with constant movement of the extremities, particularly of the hands.
Paralysis agitans.
Chorea.

Clinical:
Ovaries extremely sensitive.
Dysmenorrhœa.
Various forms of organic disease of the sexual organs.
Pruritis.
Nymphomania.

Clinical:
Spinal irritation, with tremblings of the limbs.
Intense pain in the spine and chest, with extreme sensitiveness of the spine.