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necessary to saturate tlie organism with Apis. If 

 there is much fever, this result is best accomphshed 

 by means of alternate doses of Aconite and Apis, a 

 few drops of the third potency, shaken together 

 with twelve tablespoonfuls of water, each drug by 

 itself, the dose to be repeated every hour ; and if 

 the temperature is rather depressed, by giving Apis 

 without the Aconite, a tablespoonful every hour or 

 two hours. In favorable oases the fever becomes 

 more remittent within one to three days ; a moderate 

 and pleasant perspiration breaks out all over the 

 skin; the sleep becomes calm and natural, and the 

 typhoid symptoms abate. If this change takes 

 place, it is proper to exhibit Apis in a more dy- 

 namic form, in order to assimilate it more har- 

 moniously to the newly awakened reactive power 

 of the organism. To this end we dissolve a few 

 globules of Apis SO in seven dessert-spoonfuls of 

 water, giving a dessert-spoonful morning and even- 

 ing, and we continue this treatment, until the 

 symptoms of typhoid angina have gradually abated, 

 the tongue has been healed, the normal desire for 

 food has returned, and the digestive functions go 

 on regularly; after which the natural reaction of 

 the organism, assisted by careful diet, will be found 

 suf&cient to complete the cure. If no improvement 

 sets in after Apis has been used for three days, we 

 may rest assured that a psoric miasm is in the way 

 of a cure, which requires to be combated with some 

 anti-psoric remedy. I have generally found Kali 

 carbonicum efficient, of which I gave one globule 

 thirty on the fourth day of the treatment, permit- 



