SCOLOPENDRA MORSITANS.
PREPARATION.—The insect is triturated with sugar of milk in the usual way.
(In the case of a man bitten in the arm by a centipede, reported in Nashville Journal of Medicine, 1870, among the striking symptoms was no perspiration in the arm for three months. Dr. Sherman, of California (Med. Advance), reports the following symptoms as prominent in a woman bitten by a centipede:)
Head.—Vertigo, with blindness, worse in the morning.
Stomach.—Nausea and vomiting; unable to retain either food or liquid.
Back.—Terrible pains in back and loins, spasmodic and irregular, at times extending down the limbs. Pains returned every few days for three weeks, commencing in the head and going out at the toes. "Resembled labor pains as nearly as anything I ever saw."