COMPARE AND CONTRAST :

- Dr.Farokh J.Master.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST CROTALUS HORRIDUS AND PHOSPHORUS

Common Mentals :

Ailments from anticipation

Ailments from grief, sorrow, care

Alcoholism, dipsomania

Answers, disconnected

Anxiety, with sleeplessness

Aphasia

Aversion to family members

Aversion to herself

Delirium, loquacious

Delusions of animals

Dirtiness

Dreams of dead bodies of quarrels

Escape, attempts to

Fear of crowds and people

Fear of thunder and lightning (Materia Medica

By F. Vermeulen)

Hydrophobia

Indifference to everything

Loquacity

Misanthropy

Precocity

Slowness in motion

Suspicious

Sympathetic

Timidity

Vivaciousness.

Common Generals :

Chilly patients

Haemorrhagic tendency

Thirst for cold water

Aversion - Meat

Tobacco

Aggravation - Bread

Differentiating features :

CROTALUS HORRIDUS

1. Right sided

2. Worse after sleep 3. Eyes-absorbs intra-ocular haemorrhages which are non- inflammatory 4. Vomiting, purging and urination simultaneously 5. Dark, besotted appearance PHOSPHORUS 1. Left sided

2. Better after sleep, even short sleep. 3. Eyes-absorbs intra-ocular haemorrhages which are inflammatory 4. Craves cold drinks which are vomited in a little while 5. Paleness about nose and mouth. Fan-like motion of alae nasi 6. Vertigo, better by stool. Vertigo, better by washing face with cold water.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST CROTALUS HORRIDUS AND LACHESIS

Common features :

Aggravation on waking

Blueness of affected parts

Clairvoyance

Death - fear, of

talks, of

Haemorrhagic tendency

Intolerance of tight clothing

Jealousy

Loquacity

Sense of constriction

Trembling of tongue on protruding it

Yellowness and jaundice.

Differentiating features :

CROTALUS HORRIDUS

1. Right sided

2. Cold, dry skin

3. Respiratory system - worse in cold air

LACHESIS 1. Left sided 2. Cold, moist skin 3. Respiratory system - worse by heat.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST CROTALUS HORRIDUS AND CROTALUS CASCAVELLA

Common features : (mental)

Ailments from, anticipation, foreboding, presentiment, stage- fright, grief, sorrow, care

Company, desire for

Confusion of mind

Death, thoughts of

Delusion, people behind him, someone is voices, hears

Dreams; anger

dead bodies

death, of

frightful

Indifference, apathy

Loquacity

Memory weakness, places, for orthography.

Common features : (general)

Chilly patient

Haemorrhages - blood does not coagulate

Intolerance of clothing

Aversion - Meat

Differentiating Features :

CROTALUS HORRIDUS

1. Indolence, aversion to work

2. Dreams; quarrels 3. Delirium; images, phantoms, sees 4. Fear; agoraphobia, crowd; public places, evil of

5. Memory weakness; dates, for names, for proper persons, for words 6. Sentimental

7. Suicidal disposition, throwing himself from height a 8. Desires: Alcohol, pork, sour, stimulants, sugar, sweets, wine.

9. Aversion : Tobacco

CROTALUS CASCAVELLA 1. Activity; desire for; exercise, physical 2. Dreams; animals, fights, parties, pleasure 3. Delirium; spectres, ghosts, spirits, sees. Delirium, visions, has 4. Fear, alone of being, ghosts, of 6. Magnetic state, feeling of personal power increased 7. Suicidal disposition, throwing himself from, windows 8. Desires : Snow 9. Aversion : Beef .