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‖ Lachesis Zool.|ˈlækɪsɪs| [mod.L., a. Gr. λάχεσις the name of one of the Fates.] A genus of venomous American snakes of the rattlesnake family (Crotalidæ).
1872Darwin Emotions iv. 109 In the Lachesis..the tail ends in a single, large, lancet-shaped point or scale. 1887Homeopathic World 1 Nov. 492 The writer speaks of a firm..using 250 ‘Lachesis’..tails per annum.
▸ The venom of the bushmaster as a homoeopathic remedy.
1841J. Laurie tr. G. H. G. Jahr Man. Homœopathic Med. I. 283 Lachesis... Duration of effect: several weeks. 1880Organon 3 27 The case had improved under Lachesis. 1927E. A. Neatby & T. G. Stonham Man. Homœo-therapeutics 807 Lachesis appears to affect predominantly the left side. 1991S. Gibson et al. Homeopathy for Everyone vi. 89 He had already discovered the therapeutic power of lachesis, the deadly poison of the Surukuku or Bushmaster snake of the Amazon forests. |