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a medicinal aggravation, which, owing to the massiveness of 
the dose, became so enormously powerful as to extinguish the 
vital force. 
Those persons who knew of the case considered that the 
gall was poison, and quite as deadly as the venom of the ser- 
pent itself. 
A few weeks later, a snake of the same kind bit another 
man at or near the identical place where the first one had 
been bitten. A gentleman for whom the bitten man was la- 
boring had a small vial of gall of the same kind of snake, pre- 
pared by myself, which was administered according to the 
directions given on page 209. After the lapse of two hours 
every symptom of the poisoning had disappeared, and the 
man was able to work the ensuing day. No subsequent 
relapse or return of any of the pains took place. I leave the 
reader to draw his own conclusions as to the causes of the 
result in both cases. 
Dr. Baruch has effected cures of phthisis florida with 
Theridion curassav., administering this remedy while the dis- 
ease was yet incipient. i 
Dr. Lilienthal’s inference with respect to animal poisons is 
that they all act alike, producing adynamia with sanguineous 
or nervous depression ; and consequently remove these states 
when homeeopathically indicated. 
The Crotalus poison, says Dr. Lilienthal, produces always, 
sometimes in a few minutes, painful swelling of the bitten 
part, ecchymosis ; bluish-gray color of the adjacent cutaneous 
tissue, and gangrene, with hemorrhages from nearly all the 
orifices of the body; and through this decomposition a de- 
pression of the nerve-centres, showing its action by nervous 
twitchings and convulsions, delirium, syncope, exhaustion, 
and death, from paralysis of the spinal nerves. 
