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yet finally led us to the discovery of the right re- 

 medy for dysentery. 



ISTo.'s 590 and 599 in the American Provings, 

 read as follows: "Violent tenesmus; nausea, vomit- 

 ing and diarrhoea, first lumpy and not fetid, after- 

 Wards watery and fetid, lastly papescent, mixed 

 with blood and mucus, and attended with tenesmus ; 

 afterwards dysenteric stools, with tenesmus and 

 sensation as if the bowels were crushed ;" combin- 

 ing these symptoms with the general character of 

 Apis, particularly the circumstance that not only 

 the ordinary precursors and first symptoms of 

 dysentery, but also its terminations and its seque- 

 lae, and its most important complications find their 

 approved remedy in Apis ; all this shows us that 

 Apis is a natural remedy for dysentery. This truth 

 is abundantly confirmed by experience. All my 

 previously obtained results in practice, testify to the 

 correctness of this statement. 



At the very commencement of the dfeease, a 

 globule of Apis 3 is sufiicient to cut short the. dis- 

 ease so that the patient feels easy, and sleeps quietly. 

 During this slumber, fever, pain and tenesmus dis- 

 appear, and the patient wakes with a feeling of 

 health. If this should not take place in three hours, 

 owing to the more advanced state of the disease, 

 another dose of Apis is required, after which the 

 patient soon feels well. 



If the dysenteric disease has had a chance to 

 localize itself, and to assume a higher degree of in- 

 tensity, it becomes necessary to excite the organic 

 reaction all the more frequently. Under these cir- 



