Materia Medica
Elaps Corallinus
Coral-snake
Similar to snake-poisons generally. Has very marked black discharges. Cold things disagree. Desire for sweetened buttermilk. Nausea and vomiting. Pros- trating diarrhcea of consumption. Acidity of stomach, with faint feeling. Sudden pain in stomach. Spasm of cesophagus; pharynx constricted; food and liquids sud- 309 denly arrested, and then fall heavily into stomach. Spasms followed by paresis. Cold feeliny in stomach. Fruits and ice-water lie very cold. .Right-sided paraly- sis. Must have oscillatory motion. Rheumatic consti- tutions.
Mind
Depressed; imagines he hears someone talking: dreads to be left alone. Fear of rain. Can speak, but cannot understand speech.
Head
Violent headache, extending from forehead to occiput. Vertigo with tendency to fall forward. Weight and pain in forehead.
Eyes
Aversion to light; letters run together when reading. Veil before eyes. Burning in lids. Bloated around the eyes in the morning.
Ears
Cerumen black and hard, with difficuit bear- ing, or serous greenish discharge, offensive; buzzing, and illusion of hearing. Sudden attack of nightly deaf- ness, with roaring and crackling in ears. Chronic otor- rhoea. Deufness, noises in ears, cracking in ears on swallowing.
Nose
Chronic nasal catairh, zvith fetid odor and greenish crusts.( Ozaena; yellowish-green discharge. Mucous membrane wrinkled; nostrils plugged up with. dry mucus. Pains from nose to ears on swallowing. Nostrils stopped up. Nasal bleeding. Pain at root of Eruption about nose.
Throat
Thick, very offensive, dry, greenish-yel- low crusts upon the posterior 1 pharyngeal wall and extremely foul breath. Spasmodic contraction of cesophagus.
Stomach
Feels cold. Sensation as if food turned like a corkscrew on swallowing; desire for swectened buttermilk. Acidity after every mouthful.
Female
Dysmenorrhcea, with black blood. Dis- charge of black blood between menses. Itching of vulva and vagina.
Chest
Coldness in chest after drinking. Haemor- rhage from lungs black as ink and watery; stitches in apex of right lung. Fainting caused by stooping. Op- pression in going upstairs. Peeling off of skin from palms and fingers. Cough, with terrible pain through lungs. Worse right and expectoration of black blood. Sensation of a sponge in cesophagus.
Extremities
Icy cold feet. Vesicular eruptions on feet. Arms and hands swollen bluish. Knee-joints feel sprained. Pricking under the nails.
Skin
Glands and skin of axilla affected; itching with tetter. Tips of fingers eel off.
Sleep
Dreams about dead persons.
Fever
Cold perspiration all over. Typhoid when ulcers have eaten into tissues, and black blood is dis- charge.
Relationships
Compare: Kino -- Eucalyptus rostrata (offensive dark discharge from right ear); Crotalus; Alumen; Carbo; Ars.; Lach.
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency.