Scolopendra

Scolopendra (various species).

Animal kingdom: Class , Myriopoda; Order , Chilopoda; Sub-order , Scolopendridae.

Common name , Centipede.

Authorities. 1 , Dr. H. C. Wood, Jr., Am. J. of Med. Sc., 1866, 2, p. 575, a girl of four years was bitten by "S. heros," death in six hours; 2 , Rounsarelle, Nashville J. of Med. (Am. Obs., 1870, p. 31), a man bitten on the arm; 3 , Sebastiany, Gaz. des Hôp., 1870 (S. J., 153, 314), two cases of bite by "S. morsitans," a girl on the finger and a man on the arm.

Vertigo, [3] .

Headache, [3] . Nausea (after one hour and a half), [2] .

Vomiting of a pale-yellow glairy matter, which continued at short intervals with increasing violence, until the child, in a convulsive struggle, ceased to breathe, [1] . Vomiting, [3] .

Praecordial anxiety, [3] . Arm greatly swollen, erysipelatous blush extending over half the arm; black dotted impressions in two rows, three-quarters of an inch apart, elevated with dark lines, extending across from dot to dot, five and a half inches in length, thus showing the entrance of every foot; pain deep and dull (after one hour and a half), [2] . Instant complaint, which grew rapidly worse, which was described by the child as being all over, [1] . A large red spot, becoming black, in the middle of which there forms an eschar as large as a five-franc piece, [3] . [10.]

The whole affection resembled a malignant pustule, and was associated with swelling of the lymphatic glands, [3] .

Violent itching, followed by violent pain in the bitten part, [3] . No perspiration of the right arm for three months , [2] .