214 OPHIDIANS. 
Hemorrhages and extravasation of blood in different 
organs. 
Exaps CoRALLINvs. 
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 Elaps 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. 
