914 OPHIDIANS. 
Hemorrhages and extravasation of blood in different 
organs. 
ELaps CoRALLINUS. 
Symptoms from Provings made for Dr. B. Mure.* 
Dr. Mure remarks : 
“The number of symptoms noted is not considerable, but I 
believe I can respond ‘for their exactitude. Almost all of 
them have been developed in different persons; others have 
been already confirmed in cases of cures effected, as, for ex- 
ample, feeling of oppression upon ascending stairs, vesicular 
eruption in the feet, and deafness. 
“This last symptom is of the greatest importance, as it cor- 
responds to a disease which, until the present time (1847), has 
shown itself exceedingly rebellious to the homeeopathic treat- 
ment. | 
“ Affections of the lungs will probably find a valuable 
medicinal agent in the Hlaps corallinus. 
“Hemoptysis and the state of the digestive canal, are 
special indications in the course of the second period of pul- 
monary phthisis ; next follow mental disturbances and cuta- 
neous eruptions. 
“A special action on the organs of the right side, paralysis, 
lancinating pains ensue; and it appears to me that the gyra- 
tory movements, lack of oscillation, fall of the epidermis, 
and certain moral symptoms, are analogous to the nature of 
the reptile itself. | 
“Undoubtedly marked analogies do exist between the 
symptoms developed by this poison, and those by that of the 
Lachesis trigonocephalus, but there are still sufficiently nu- 
merous points of difference to prove that these animal poisons 
* Pathogenesie Bresilienne. 
