tial the resemblance between these forms of disease and
the medicinal power, the more certainly may we expect a cure. The
medicinal power which seems to be most adequate to this end, is
undoubtedly Apis. My observations in this respect are not sufficiently
numerous to enable me to offer positive directions concerning the best
mode of using the medicine in these diseases, or concerning the extent
of the curative process or the complications that may exist. All I can
do is to recommend Apis for further experiments in this range, and to
remind my brethren of the insufficiency of other drugs, which has been a
source of trouble to us in the past ten years. Every body who has
watched the course of these diseases during this period, must have seen
the difference existing between the present and the past character of
the symptoms. It must, therefore, be a source of satisfaction to all of
us, to have found in Apis an agent that is capable of filling up the
gap.

My observations regarding the curative virtues of Apis in urinary,
uterine and ovarian difficulties, and in rheumatism and gout, are not
very extended. In the American Provings, symptoms 634 to 669, seem to
point to urinary difficulties, and 685 to 695, to ovarian troubles;
symptoms 697 to 727 to uterine derangements; and 837, 842, 867, 873,
874, 918, 919, 940, 942, 964, 969, to rheumatism and gout.

What little experience I have had in the employment of Apis in these
diseases, is, however, sufficient to induce me to recommend the use of
it for further and more enlarged knowledge.

I have had abundant opportunities of verifying the warning expressed in
No. 721, "pregnant women should use the drug very cautiously." I am not
acquainted with any drug which seems possessed of such reliable virtues
regarding the prevention of miscarriage, more particularly during the
first half of pregnancy, as Apis. I have often become an involuntary
spectator of the power of Apis to effect miscarriage; for I had given it
to honest women who did not know that they were pregnant, and where the
fact of pregnancy was revealed to them by the subsequent miscarriage,
which took place after one or two doses of Apis had been taken. Ever
since I have made it a rule not to give Apis to females in whom the
existence of pregnancy can be suspected in the remotest degree until the
matter is reduced to a certainty, and the conduct of the physician can
be determined upon in accordance with existing facts.