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under tlie operation of other medicines. In ordi- 

 nary cases, and without treatment, it takes three, 

 five, seven and eleven days, before the eyes get 

 well again; but under the use of Apis, the eyes 

 improve so decidedly in from one to three days, 

 that the eyes do not require any further treatment ; 

 and that even troublesome sequelse, such as photo- 

 phobia; styes which come and go; troublesome 

 lachrymation ; continual redness ; swelling and 

 blennorrhoea of the lids ; fistulse lachrymalis, etc., 

 need not be apprehended. 



If Apis has had a chance to exercise its curative 

 action in a case of measles, we hear nothing of the 

 troublesome, and often so wearing and racking 

 cough, which so often prevails in measles, and the 

 continuance of which is accompanied by an in- 

 creased irritation and swelling of the respiratory 

 mucous membrane and an increasing alteration of 

 its secretion, which recurs in paroxysms, assumes a 

 suspicious sound, shows a tendency to croup and 

 to the development of tuberculosis, and finally 

 degenerates in whooping-cough, so that epidemic 

 measles and whooping-cough often go hand in 

 hand. After Apis, the cough speedily begins to 

 become looser and milder, to loose its dubious cha- 

 racter, and to gradually disappear without leaving 

 a trace behind. If these results should be confirmed 

 by further experience, we would have attained ad- 

 ditional means of preventing the supervention of 

 whooping-cough in measles ; a triumph of art and 

 science which should elicit our warmest gratitude. 



Any one who knows, how malignant measles. 



