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remedy to meet the symptoms which generally cha- 

 racterize white swelling of the knee. Even at the 

 present day Iodine is one of those remedies that 

 require a good deal of elucidation. Hence we 

 should not, carried away by analogy, conclude from 

 those things which are not clear, concerning other 

 things which are no more so. Nevertheless the ob- 

 servations which have been made so far, have led 

 to some highly important, more or less positive 

 conclusions, and have shown us with a certain de- 

 gree of satisfaction and certainty, that iodine is an 

 inestimable gift of Grod, by means of which we are 

 enabled to free mankind from one of the most 

 frightful complications, the psoric, sycosio and 

 mercurial miasms. I have been induced by various 

 signs to believe that, in white swelling of the knee 

 such a complication exists. 



Considering the paucity of our observations 

 bearing upon this important point, it seems imprac- 

 ticable to make any positive statements with refer- 

 ence to the assistance that we might possibly derive 

 from the use of Apis in this disease. My own 

 opportunities for observation having been very few, 

 I recommend the use of Apis in white swelling of 

 the knee, to my professional brethren. The follow- 

 ing symptoms in "Hering's American Provings," 

 seem to indicate it ; ISTo.'s 828, 829 and 931, " vio- 

 lent pain in the left knee, externally, above and 

 below the knee, particularly above, somewhat in 

 front; painful cedematous swelling of the knee; 

 burning stinging about the knee." In white swell- 

 ing of the knee, where no alloeopathic treatment 



