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This dolphin is from 9 to 10 feet long; its body is large and
cylindrical, of a brownish-gray color above and a pure white below. Its
jaws, of equal length, are long, narrow, linear, armed on each side with
26 large conical, somewhat rugose teeth, with wide crowns. Its forehead
is bomb-shaped, the eyes a little above the commissure of the lips. The
pectoral fins are of considerable size, brownish at their extremities,
and placed very low; the dorsal fin is elevated and semilunar. This
dolphin, as its name shows, inhabits the mouth of the Amazon. It has a
thick and fibrous skin, which we employ in medicine.
(Before trying the drug, the prover had paroxysms of cough with
suffocation, during which a hernia protruded with much force.)
_First day._—1. Slight pain at the navel, after five minutes. Feeling of
a quantity of air in the stomach, with grumbling in the abdomen. Pain at
the loins, on rising in the morning. Eructations. 5. Violent smarting and
excoriating pains, shifting from the right thigh to the heel, then to
the right shoulder; these pains are aggravated by contact. In moving the
right toes, the bones cracked as if notched. Quickly passing pain at the
right eyebrow (when coughing, the hernia did not protrude any longer with
so much force.)
_Second day._—Doughy mouth. 10. He has not been troubled with
suffocation and the cough is less. Headache. Violent colic with soft and
strong-smelling stools. Pain in the loins. Hard abdomen, especially on
the right side, where he feels like a ball which is painful when touched,
in the evening. 15. Dry lips.
_Third day._—Restless and disturbed sleep. (Cough continues.) Pain in
the loins. The hardness in the abdomen has shifted to the left side. 20.
Bleeding from the left nostril. (Before taking the drug he bled from the
right nostril.)
_Fourth day._—Acid stomach. (Cough with suffocation.) Erections, with
sexual desire. Itching at the anus as from worms. 25. The bones of the
thorax are affected with rheumatic pains.