APIS. 



out with oil, within with honey and wine sodden together, as Pollio did." 

 That we may the more wonder at the use of Mulsum, which the Ancients es- 

 teemed very much, for that they were persuaded that all acrimony of the 

 mind was pacified with sweet liquors, and the spirits made peaceable, the 

 passages made softer and freer for transpiration, and that it was also 

 physics for manners. — Plinius. 



Also Gesner brought in an Oxymel with Hellebore, which he comt 

 mends not a little in his Greek Epistle to Adolphus Otto. To make thin, 

 thick and clammy humors, and to root them out; but especially to make 

 way for insensible, transpiration, that is to draw forth from the center 

 to the superficies of the body. But you shall find everywhere featured 

 in the Book of his Epistles, what force it hath against Melancholy, Cachexia, 

 Dropsies, Epilepsies, and fevers, where also you have the Oxymels made 

 with Hellebore, both great and small. 



Apomeli of Philagrius in Aegineta. It cools lightly, as Galen saith, 

 wherefore in Phlegmone, and weariness in a fever, it is very good. It is 

 drunk all the summer to cool the body, at which time any man may drink 

 of it (especially when it grows sourish). It is also useful to expectorate 

 with, to move urine, to purge the belly, and to cut thin humors. Aginetas 

 Ruelius. — Mouffet, Theater of Insects, 1658, p. go6. 



MEDICINAL USES OF WAX. (MOUFFET.) 



Great is the virtues of pure Propolis (Bee-glue),* upon the gross spir- 

 its, and it draws faulty matter out from the depths. Hallerius. It is of 

 the nature of wax, but it powerfully draws forth. Dioscorides. Celsus 

 placeth it in the number of biting remedies, saying that it digests and 

 moves matter in ulcers. Aetius says that it heats, discusses, ripens, cleans, 

 attracts. _ The cleansing force is not very strong, the attracting is strong 

 enough, it is of thin parts, it heats in the second degree complete, or in 

 the begmning of the third: you must first soften it with your hands before 

 you nimglc it with other medicaments and then taking the rest from the 

 fire, put it in and boil it, for it will not well endure any boiling at the fire. 

 It draws out all thorns and all splints that are within. Aetius. Varro 

 saith, that for its manifold uses it was sold dearer in the market than 

 honey. Maybe therefore Propolis was called holy wax, because of Via 

 Sacra where they sold it at Rome, as Largus writes in the cure of wh.ite 

 swelhngs. They draw forth thorns and such bodies sticking in the flesh. 

 with runnet (especially of a hare) powder of Frankincense and Propolis' 

 Pliny. It helps an old cough with its smell. It cures the rose with water, 

 and roots out ringworms by anointing them. Dioscorides. It cures 

 Ozaenas: Serapio, Pliny i. II. c. f. tells more of its physical use.— Mouffet, 

 J he I heater of Insects, 1658, p. 6iy. 



PREPARATIONS OF APIS. 



Physicians of the Homeopathic school of medicine employ a tinc- 

 ture of Apis, together with its dilutions and triturations, which are 

 fully described in their works on pharmacy and therapeutics. 



SPECIFIC MEDICINE APIS. 



Preparation.— The only preparation we have devised is the Spe- 

 cific Medicine. It is of very complex structure, and seemingly depends 

 on no princip le of marked chemical individuality for its therapeutic 



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