APIS. 



condition apis is a most efficient remedy; in fact, in any case where there 

 is itching of the genitals, with heat and burning pain in the urethra, accom- 

 panied by .1 frequent desire to urinate, it is a most useful remedial agent. 



"In amenorrhea, menorrhagia, and leucorrhea, with acute congestion 

 of the ovaries, apis is a potent remedy, and it also constitutes a useful medi- 

 cament in vesicular erysipelas. 



"In urticaria, or 'hives,' when there is the usual itching or soreness, 

 this drug can be employed with confidence, that it will exert a decidedly 

 curative influence. In the treatment of dise_ases exhibiting a tendency to 

 dropsy and in rheumatism where is a blanched puffiness and severe stinging 

 pain. Apis renders excellent service. It is also of decided value in edem- 

 atous conditions of the throat 



"In suppression or retention of urine (unless there is a stricture) 

 Apis has no superior in our materia medica. When continued for some 

 time it increases the secretion of urine, and it is, therefore, a medicament 

 to be considered in the dropsy attendant upon structural diseases of the 

 heart. While it can not be expected to cure such wrongs, it will afiford 

 a relief which will be highly appreciated. 



"The tincture of the honey bee is an excellent remedy if the diagnosis 

 is well made. Given the peculiar burning pain that one associates with 

 the. sting of the bee, and I should think of this remedy. Burning pain 

 with itching in the urethra, in the bladder, or any part of the surface 

 is met by apis." — Scudder, 



By Finley Ellingwood, M. D.: 



Specific Symptomatology. — Acute swelling-edema of the cellular tissues, 

 local Or general swelling, with the formation of vesicles; urinary irritation 

 from atony; incontinence from feebleness; retention from irritation with 

 dark, heavy, scanty urine. 



Therapy. — The agent is prescribed in dropsy, which appears suddenly. 

 Old standing dropsies are not readily influenced by it. Bdema glottidis is sub- 

 ject to its influence, and it quickly relieves the edema of the throat and nasal 

 passages which accompany diphtheria and scarlet fever. It is also curative in 

 the dropsy which follows these two closely related diseases, from sudden 

 suppression of urine. It influences the kidneys at the same time, causing an 

 increase of the urine; it soothes the irritability of these organs and relieves 

 the congestion present. When effusion from pleuritis, peritonitis, or other 

 acute serous inflammation is present it is given with confidence. 



In retention and suppression of urine in children, and the aged, from aton- 

 icity or general feebleness, it is a useful agent. 



It is also useful in irritable bladder with teasing tenesmus, where the urine 

 is scanty and high colored, when micturition is frequent and accompanied by 

 much soreness and burning. 



In the urinary incontinence of the aged and feeble it is prompt in its action. 



In doses of two drops of the specific medicine apis four or five times 

 daily, many cases of passive hematuria intractable to other remedies, will 

 yield promptly. — Bllingwood's Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy. 



By Lyman Watkins, M. £>.: 



"The indications for apis — edema with itching, burning, and smarting 

 of the parts. While apis is now frequently prescribed by the writer, it 

 was not so in former years. Having somehow become imbued with the 

 idea that the remedy was worthless, suggestions from those who recom- 

 mended it were receiyed with a feeling of indulgent incredujity, and thus 

 stubborn skepticism deprived me of a valuable weapon against disease. 

 Within recent years apis has been given in edema, when accompanied with 

 itching, burning, and smarting, and has relieved the condition wherever 

 situated. 



"Edema is only a symptom, the causes being varied. It may result 

 from cardiac, renal or hepatic afifections, thrombosis, embolism, chlorosis, 



