Lacerta

Lacerta agilis, L.

Natural order , Reptila.

Common name , Green Lizard (widely diffused throughout Europe; not venomous).

Preparation , (?).

Authorities.

1 , Symptoms from Archiv f. Hom., 14, 2, 202; 2 , Baldini, A. H. Z., 67, 74, experiments on self; he swallowed a whole lizard cut into small pieces; 3 , same, second experiment; 4 , same, two lizards taken.

MOUTH

• Large vesicles under the tongue, 1.
• Constant accumulation of saliva in the mouth, 4.

STOMACH

• Violent eructations and some distress in the stomach, 2.
• Nausea and a feeling of weight in the stomach, immediately, 3.
• Great nausea, 4.
• Violent pressure in the stomach, 4.

ABDOMEN

• Pains in the intestines, relieved by frequently drinking water and vinegar (after one hour), 4.

PULSE

• Pulse rose 8 beats, 4.
• The pulse, which before the proving was 70, rose to 80, 2. [10.]
• Pulse 80 when taking, fell 14 beats (after one hour), 3.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• All the symptoms disappeared during the subsequent night after a profuse sweat, 4.

SKIN

• Moist, white eruption in several parts of the body, especially on the inner canthus of the eye, 1.
• Ulcerated places on the female genitals, 1.

FEVER

• The temperature rose 60, 4.
• The thermometer applied to the pit of the stomach before taking was 26°; 32° after one hour, 3.
• Thermometer, when taking, 34°; it fell 8°, after an hour, 3.

SUPPLEMENT: LACERTA. Authority.

5 , Sidney B. Cushman, Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. xxi, 1840, p. 367, a girl, aged thirteen years, was bitten on the sole of the left foot by a large green spotted lizard.

• Numbness of the foot, as though it had been deprived of sensation by cording the ankle, and that occasional prickling that occurs on the return of circulation; numbness continued spreading upward; the whole limb became severely swollen, with most excruciating pain on the slightest motion. Inflammatory blush over the direction of the lymphatics (second day). The muscles of the neck and jaw of that side were rigid and tender to touch. Much difficulty in swallowing. Occasional delirium, particularly the first week. Wonderfully increased mental acumen during her intervals of reason. Whole left side paralyzed. The limbs were spotted a short time before death, which occurred on the twenty-first day, 5.