Latrodectus Mactans

COMMON NAME:

      SPIDER.

Symptoms

      The praecordial region seems to be centre of the attack (Br.)

Praecordial anxiety (Aconite, Cact., Lachesis, Naja, Spigelia, Veratrum) (B).

GASPS, FEARS TO LOSE BREATH AND DIE (Arsenicum, Digitalis, Lachesis) (B.)

Screams with pain (Br.)

ANGINA PECTORIS (Arsenicum, Spigelia, Veratrum) (Bl.)

PAIN IN THE REGION OF THE HEART, EXTENDING TO THE LEFT ARM (Aconite, Kalm., Rhus- T.) (K.)

Constriction of chest muscles, with radiation to the shoulders and back (Br.).

Cardiac pain: violent, sharp to shoulder or both arms, with numbness (B.).

Skin as cold as marble (Camph., Carbo vegetabilis, Laur., Veratrum) (Br.).

Quick, feeble, thready pulse (acon., Camph., Phosphorus, Veratrum) (B.)

Sinking at the epigastrium (Carb-An., Digitalis, Sepia) (B.)

Paraesthesia of the lower limbs (Br.).

Weakness of the legs followed by cramps in the abdominal muscles (Br.).

AGGRAVATION :

      From least motion: even of hands; from exertion; and from talking.

AMELIORATION:

      From sitting quietly.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Similar to: Aconite, Arsenicum, Cact., digitalis, Lachesis, Laur., Naja, Phosphorus, and Veratrum

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)