Scolopendra

Scolopendra (various species).

Animal kingdom: Class , Myriopoda; Order , Chilopoda; , Scolopendridæ.

Common name , Centipede.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. H. C. Wood, Jr., Am. J. of Med. Sc., 1866, 2, p. 575, a girl of four years was bitten by "S. heros," death in six hours; 2 , Rounsarelle, Nashville J. of Med. (Am. Obs., 1870, p. 31), a man bitten on the arm; 3 , Sebastiany, Gaz. des Hôp., 1870 (S. J., 153, 314), two cases of bite by "S. morsitans," a girl on the finger and a man on the arm.

• Vertigo, 3.
• Headache, 3.
• Nausea (after one hour and a half), 2.
• Vomiting of a pale-yellow glairy matter, which continued at short intervals with increasing violence, until the child, in a convulsive struggle, ceased to breathe, 1.
• Vomiting, 3.
• Præcordial anxiety, 3.
• Arm greatly swollen, erysipelatous blush extending over half the arm; black dotted impressions in two rows, three-quarters of an inch apart, elevated with dark lines, extending across from dot to dot, five and a half inches in length, thus showing the entrance of every foot; pain deep and dull (after one hour and a half), 2.
• Instant complaint, which grew rapidly worse, which was described by the child as being all over, 1.
• A large red spot, becoming black, in the middle of which there forms an eschar as large as a five-franc piece, 3. [10.]
• The whole affection resembled a malignant pustule, and was associated with swelling of the lymphatic glands, 3.
• Violent itching, followed by violent pain in the bitten part, 3.
• No perspiration of the right arm for three months, 2.