Toxicophis

Toxicophis pugnax, B. and G.

Animal kingdom.

Class , Reptilia.

Order , Ophidia.

Common name , Moccasin.

Authorities.

1 , Wm. Ingalls, Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. 27, 1842, p. 170, a strong healthy man was bitten on the right ankle; 2 , Wm. Stockbridge, Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. 29, p. 42, Mr. --- was bitten on the leg when he was ten years old; 3 , same, a second case.

FACE

• Countenance somewhat anxious (after one hour), 1.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Right leg œdematous, considerably larger than the left (after one hour), 1.
• A few drops of a limpid fluid came from the wounds (after one hour), 1.
• The leg became painful and swelled rapidly, the swelling extending to the hip, attended with high irritative fever (after half an hour), 2.
• For several years the pains were confined to the knee of the limb bitten; in a few years it left the knee and seized the hip, and finally it attacked the shoulder, the last attack being very slight, 2.

PULSE

• Pulse accelerated, full, regular, easily compressible (after one hour), 1.

GENERALITIES

• For the last eighteen years he has had an annual recurrence of symptoms, attended with severe pain, but not accompanied with swelling; it occurred at precisely the same time of the year, continued several days, but decreasing in severity every succeeding year, 2.
• Every year the symptoms have returned with less intensity and with an absence of swelling, 3.
• Skin rather dry (after one hour), 1.