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do not have an almost identical action, as many persons have 
affirmed ; and that the Crotalus horridus, for example, is the 
almost perfect antidote or succedaneum of the Lachesis tri- 
gonocephalus. I am well convinced of the contrary, and my 
belief is that serpent-poisons, well proven, afford im themselves 
alone the most rapid and surest means with which to combat all 
known diseases. Each epoch has doubtless a recourse of thera- 
peutic means, which are most specific, because most hom- 
ceopathic, to the general character of epidemic or reigning 
diseases. So that when the human kind shall be partially 
purified of the miasms that attack the race, the simple 
flowers of the fields will afford a superabundant store to skilled 
physicians from which to take agents with which to combat 
slight indispositions ; but we, who are the unfortunate heirs 
to the chronic miasms of all ages, we who are surcharged 
with the virus of leprosy, scrofula, syphilis, and a thousand 
other detestable chancres, must seek in the most powerful 
medicinal agents resources proportionate to the intensity of 
our sufferings.” 
AMPHISBENA VERMICULARIS.* 
Fainting fits; feels downcast. 
Great pain in the whole spinal column, augmented by 
motion. 
Rose-colored miliary eruptions. Sleeplessness. 
Feels a great weight in the forehead and parietal bones. 
Intense cephalalgia, vertigo, inclination to fall towards the 
right side. 
Sight affected, tremors in the orbital muscles. 
Dull, heavy pains in the bone of the right lower jaw re- 
peated several times. Pains in all the teeth. 
* Pathogenesie Bresilienne. 
