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of tlie knuckles and first phalanges; cracking of the 

 skin here and there ; itching and chapping of the 

 hand and lower lip." 



If we add to these symptoms the above enume- 

 rated cerebral symptoms, the typhoid alteration of 

 the internal mucous membrane of the whole ali- 

 mentary canal and of the respiratory organs, the 

 disorganizing and paralyzing action upon the blood 

 and nerves, the inclination to dropsical effusion, the 

 affection of the cervical glands with tendency to 

 suppuration, the appearance of otorrhcea, — we have 

 a group of symptoms which resemble very accu- 

 rately the prevailing type of epidemic scarlatina. I 

 know, from abundant experience, that the homoeo- 

 pathic law has been brilliantly confirmed in this 

 disease. Thanks to the curative powers of ^pis, 

 scarlatina has ceased to be a scourge to childhood. 

 The dangers to which children were usually exposed 

 in scarlatina, have dwindled down to one, which 

 fortunately is a comparatively rare phenomenon. It 

 is only where the scarlet-fever poison acts at the 

 outset with so much intensity, that the brain be- 

 comes paralyzed at once, and the disease must neces- 

 sarily terminate fatally, that no remedy has as yet 

 been discovered. In all other cases, unless some 

 strange mishap should interfere, the physician, who 

 is familiar with Apis, need not fear any untoward 

 results in his treatment of scarlatina. 



In all lighter cases, where the disease sets in less 

 tumultuously, and runs a mild course, it is proper, 

 as soon as the disease has fairly broken out, to give 

 a globule of Apis 30, and to watch the effects of this 



