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iciiorous matter is speedily changed to good pus, 

 and all danger is averted. 



In a case of carbuncle the gangrenous disorgani- 

 zation of the skin and cellular tissue becomes very- 

 soon confined to a small spot ; the dead parts are se- 

 parated from the living tissues ; the fever is hushed ; 

 the disorganizations which it threatens are avert- 

 ed; a healthy suppuration is established through- 

 out the gangrenous part, detaching and removing 

 all decayed matter, and replacing the loss of sub- 

 stance by new granulations until the sore becomes 

 cicatrized in such a hardly perceptible manner, 

 that any one who is acquainted with the ravages 

 of this disease, and is in the habit of seeing deep 

 and disfiguring cicatrizes, even in the most success- 

 ful cases, is disposed to deny the fact that such an 

 intensely disorganizing process has been going on 

 in this instance. No other remedial means are 

 required, much less a surgical operation. 



Inasmuch as carbuncle is generally preceded for 

 a longer period by a deep-seated feeling of illness 

 in the organism, showing that the psoric miasm 

 pervades the tissues, it behooves us, in order to 

 secure all the better a favorable result, to give a 

 dose of highly-potentized Sulphur at the very out- 

 set of the disease. After having used the first por- 

 tion of Apis, a globule of Sulphur 30 or 6000 may 

 be interposed, the former in all cases where no 

 Sulphur had been used, and the latter in cases 

 Sulphur had been used in large doses. We permit 

 such a dose to act for twenty -four hours, after which 



