e it was nevertheless important, in view of the threatening
danger, to select at once the right remedy? Who has not been struck by
the strange irregularity that in a disease which generally sets in as an
epidemic, different remedies are often indicated by different groups of
symptoms? Who has not become convinced after a careful observation of
the course of the disease, that nothing is more deceptive than the
pretended curative virtues of corrosive sublimate in dysentery, and that
it is a matter of duty to be mindful, in this very particular, of the
warning words of the master who, having himself been deceived at one
time by the delusive palliation of mercury, addresses to us the
remarkable warning that "mercury, so far from responding to all
non-venereal maladies, on the contrary is one of the most deceitful
palliatives the temporary action of which is not only soon followed by a
return of the original symptoms of disease, but even by a return of
these symptoms in an aggravated form." (See Hahnemann's Chronic
Diseases, Vol. II.)

This delusive palliation is more particularly one of the effects of
corrosive sublimate in Dysentery; and is exceedingly dangerous in this
disease. Hence we warn practitioners against this danger.

We feel so much the more grateful to the principle Similia Similibus,
which, even though it did not protect its discoverer from faulty
applications, yet finally led us to the discovery of the right remedy
for dysentery.

No.'s 590 and 599 in the American Provings, read as follows: "Violent
tenesmus; nausea, vomiting and diarrh[oe]a, first lumpy and not fetid,
afterwards watery and fetid, lastly papescent, mixed with blood and
mucus, and attended with tenesmus; afterwards dysenteric stools, with
tenesmus and sensation as if the bowels were crushed;" combining these
symptoms with the general character of Apis, particularly the
circumstance that not only the ordinary precursors and first symptoms of
dysentery, but also its terminations and its sequelae, and its most
important complications find their approved remedy in Apis; all this
shows us that Apis is a natural remedy for dysentery. This truth is
abundantly confirmed by experience. All my previously obtained results
in practice, testify to the correctness of this statement.

At the very commencement of the disease, a globule of Apis 3 is
sufficient to cut short the disease so that the patient feels easy, and
sleeps quietly. During this slumber,