appetite and thirst, feeling of dryness in the mouth and throat,
tongue sore, as if burnt and swollen, with antagonistic change of
symptoms, suspicious and extraordinary prostration, and feeling of
fainting; a few spoonfuls of the above-mentioned solution of Apis 3,
will afford such speedy relief, that it may seem incredible to those who
have not witnessed it. The nausea, the vomiting, the diarrh[oe]a, and
the painfulness of the abdomen, disappear; quiet sleep sets in, with
general perspiration, which terminates the fever, and affords great
relief; after waking, the patient is comforted by the internal sensation
of returning health; a natural appetite is again felt, the strength
returns, and in a few days the healthy look of the tongue and buccal
cavity shows that the mucous membrane of the stomach and bowels has
recovered its normal quality. The longer help is deferred, the longer
time the morbid process has had in making its inroads upon the system,
the more frequently will it be necessary to repeat the medicine, until a
cure is achieved.

The same good result is perceived, if the morbid process is accompanied
by furuncles, urticaria, erysipelas--the latter principally on the head
and in the face, less frequently upon the extremities, and inclining to
shift from one place to another. Such a combination of symptoms not only
shows a higher degree of intensity of the disease, but also shows that
the organism is still capable of battling against the internal disease,
by compelling it to leave the interior tissue, and to develop itself
externally. It is the first business of the physician to support the
organism in this tendency, and to guard the brain and bowels from every
destructive relapse. Apis, employed as above, accomplishes this result
more speedily than any other drug. Of course, a few days are required
for this purpose, although the rules of using the drug and the course of
treatment are the same.

The same observation applies to the not unfrequent complication with
organic disease of the spleen and consequent dropsy. Apis, used in the
same manner, effects, in as short a period as the intensity of the
symptoms will permit, a mitigation and gradual disappearance of the
painfulness of the spleen, restores the normal action of the spleen more
and more, and neutralises the tendency to dropsical effusion at the same
time as it expels the accumulated fluid by increasing the secretions
from the bladder and bowels, and