VIPERA LACHESIS BUFOCEPHALUS. 109 
The following formula expresses at a glance its entire 
action :* 
Le Ge AS Oe Ae 
SS Len ee Fad 
Ri PG? HA AY (2XL)"* gr Mt 
1-3 1-3 06d os 
80 
It reads thus,—Numerator: The intellectual faculties are 
clouded by illusions, accompanied by eruptions on the skin 
and a feeling of insensibility to the touch in certain parts. 
The preceding symptoms developed throughout the entire 
proving. Functions of the nervous system are excited, sensa- 
tion in some increased, and afterwards diminished. 
Sense of hearing much diminished from first to third day ; 
clearness of vision diminished from first to sixth day. 
Denominator : Respiratory apparatus very strongly affected 
from first to third day; feeling of insensibility in penis, first 
to third day; difficult deglutition, first to fifth day ; digestive 
functions deranged, first to sixth day; abdominal regions 
strongly affected, first to sixth day ; organs of the throat and 
abdomen, and the entire trunk, affected during the whole 
proving, particularly insensibility of the organs of the trunk ; 
eruptions in the cutaneous tissue from first to sixth day ; 
matrix notably affected from third to sixth day. 
The fraction expressed in signs at the left hand means: 
Development or manifestation of the principal symptoms on 
the right side of the body during the entire proving. 
Toxical effects of the poison of the Vipera lachesis bufo- 
ecphalus are: Convulsions; great pain in the bitten limb ; 
intensely feverish pulse ; intense thirst; flow of a dark blood, 
* From Mure’s Pathogenesie Brésillienne, 
