86 APIS mellifica; or, 



sipelafous inflammation of the mammce — with more 

 certainty and thoroughness, than by means of Apis ! 

 No remedy possesses equal powers in protecting 

 internal organs from the dangerous inroad of this 

 disease. 



I effected all this without any other medicinal aid, 

 or without resorting to an operation. Keeping 

 quiet and dry, and in a uniform temperature, is all 

 that is required, in order to secure the full curative 

 action of Apis. In this disease it is used in the same 

 manner as we have indicated before. If the liver 

 shoiild be very much involved in this disease, we 

 effect a cure still more rapidly, by alternating Aco- 

 nite with Apis, in case inflammation is present; 

 Carduus marise, in case of simple inflammatory irri- 

 tation, and Hepatin, if disorganizations have already 

 set in. In phlegmonous and suppurative habitual 

 erysipelas, a cure is generally facilitated, if a dose 

 of Sulphur 30 is interpolated, in the manner which 

 we have explained before, in order to neutralize the 

 psoric taint which is here generally present. 



According to this experience, in conjunction with 

 the symptoms 706, 707, I believe that Apis will 

 prove a successful prophylactic and curative agent 

 in a disease of children, which terminates fatally in 

 almost every case. I mean erysipelas of new-born 

 infants, which commences at the genital organs, 

 thence spreads over the skin, and terminates in the 

 induration and destruction of this organ. Until 

 now, I have not had an opportunity of verifying 

 the truth of this theoretical conclusion by actual 



