40 APIS MELLIFICA ; OR, 



fever and to secure a favorable termination of tlie 

 disease. 



The struggle between disease and medicine as- 

 sumes a far different form, if tbe morbific poison 

 has penetrated the organism more deeply ; if a pro- 

 cess of disorganization has already developed itself 

 in the intestinal mucous membrane, and if the 

 alteration of the sanguineous fluid, which is an 

 inherent accompaniment of such a disorganizing 

 process, has depressed the nervous activity to such 

 a degree that typhus, or paralysis of the brain or 

 lungs seems unavoidable, as may be inferred from 

 the bright-red tongue, which is thickly studded 

 with eruptive vesicles, and speedily becomes excor- 

 iated, fissured and covered with aphthae ; by a 

 copious discharge of thick, white, bloody and fetid 

 mucus from the nose ; by the swelling and indura- 

 tion of the parotid glands, increasing difficulty of 

 deglutition ; sensitiveness of the abdomen to pres- 

 sure ; badly-colored, slimy, bloody diarrhoea ; scanty 

 emissions of turbid, red, painful urine ; accelerated 

 and labored breathing ; loss of consciousness ; de- 

 lirium ; sopor ; convulsions ; trembling of the limbs ; 

 appearance as if the patient were lying in his bed 

 in a state of fainting ; the skin is at times burning, 

 hot and dry; at others it feels like parchment, 

 cooler; at others again, hot and cool together in 

 spots ; the fever increases with changing pulse, and 

 is more constant ; in short, all the symptoms, 

 although developing themselves less rapidly, show 

 that a fatal termination becomes more and more 

 probable. In such a case it is above all things 



