s to treat this dreaded affection
with positive and specific remedies in a most satisfactory manner, the
horrible pains which characterize this trouble, and the mutilations to
which it so frequently leads, only exist in quarters where egotism, the
love of lucre and the absence of all conscientiousness prevents
physicians from inquiring into the merits of our superior mode of
treatment. Is not this unpardonably wicked?

SPONTANEOUS LIMPING

is another affection which we cure with Apis.

This disease which causes so much distress in life, is likewise, in its
essential nature, an outbirth of psora, and, as regards its local
character and its effects upon the constitution of the patient, it seems
to be characterized by the same inflammatory and suppurative process as
whitlow, and be endowed with a similar tendency to organic destruction.
In the American Provings, symptom 917, "Painful soreness in the left
hip-joint, immediately after taking a dose of Apis 2, afterwards
debility, unsteadiness, trembling in this joint," is the only symptom
that seems to indicate the curative power of Apis in this distressing
malady. What experienced physician has not often seen the hip show such
symptoms of disease, particularly after violent frights and anguish? Who
has not seen blows on the back and nates, by way of punishment, attended
with such consequences? Who has not seen coxarthrocace develope itself
during the course of a severe cerebral disease, scarlatina or typhus,
where the patient, on suddenly awakening to consciousness from a state
of stupor, is made sensitive of the presence of this insidious disease,
perhaps already fully developed? Since I have used Apis, I have never
had to deplore such saddening results.

According to my observation, we may regard Apis as a specific remedy for
spontaneous limping; every new trial confirms me in this statement. Apis
may be depended upon as a capital remedy in every stage of this disease,
as long as the psoric miasm is kept in the background; but as soon as
the psoric taint is fully developed, a suitable anti-psoric has to be
given in alternation with Apis. My experience has led me to prefer Kali
carbonicum to all other anti-psoric remedies in this disease. But
inasmuch as the keenest observer may overlook the right moment when the
psoric poison begins to operate, it is well to forestall the enemy at
the very commencement, which may be done with the more propriety, the
more certainly w