ost promptly and
efficiently, if given in alternation with Aconite, both remedies in the
third dilution, a few drops dissolved in twelve tablespoonfuls of water,
in alternate hourly doses. After taking a few doses, the patient begins
to feel relieved, enjoys a quiet sleep, and the resolution of the
inflammation takes place, accompanied by the breaking out of a general
perspiration. If there should be a natural tendency to suppuration, this
treatment will hasten it from hour to hour, and after the pus is
discharged, a cure will soon be accomplished. In the most inveterate
cases, which had been previously treated in a different manner, the same
curative process takes place gradually; first one outbreak of the
disease is hushed; next, if another portion of the throat becomes
inflamed, this inflammation is controlled, and this proceeding is
continued with an increasingly rapid success and a continued abatement
of all sufferings, until, finally, a perfect recovery is obtained, even
under these disadvantageous circumstances.

Apis is not sufficient to prevent the recurrence of such inflammatory
attacks; this object has to be accomplished by means of the appropriate
antidotal specific.

_Apis becomes an exceedingly useful remedy in consequence of the
specific power which it possesses over the whole internal mucous
membrane and its appendages._

It is particularly the mucous membrane of the alimentary canal upon
which Apis has a striking influence. It excites an inflammatory
irritation, which not only disturbs the secretion of mucus, but also
disintegrates the intestinal juices so essential to the process of
sanguification, thus disqualifying the blood from properly contributing
to the reproduction of the nervous tissue. By thus altering the blood
and nerves, these two principal vehicles of vitality, it develops a
group of symptoms which is exceedingly similar to our abdominal typhus
that seems to have become stationary among us for the last twenty years.
This similarity, in its totality, results from the following symptoms
contained in the "American Provings."

"398: troublesome pains in the gums. 400: the gums bleed readily. 402:
bitterish taste in the back part of the tongue and in the throat. 405:
tongue as if burnt. 406: tongue and palate feel sore. 411: a number of
vesicles and small, sore, somewhat red spots at the tip of the tongue
and along the left margin of the tongue. 413: dry tongue, the inner
cheeks look red,