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cumstances we repeat the medicine every hour, or 

 every two or three hours, one globule at a time, 

 until all further medication has become unneces- 

 sary. 



It is well known that epidemic diarrhoea, viz., a 

 diarrhoea resulting from peculiar alterations of the 

 normal condition of the atmosphere, earth, water, 

 indispensable food, or from other still unknown 

 elementary influences inevitably acting upon every 

 body, commences in the form of a simple, apparently 

 unimportant diarrhoea ; that it gradually increases 

 in intensity as the processes of nutrition and san- 

 guification become more deeply disturbed, and that 

 it finally terminates in life-destroying cholera. 

 All these different stages of diarrhoea, whether with 

 or without vomiting, watery or papescent, of one 

 color or another, with or without pain, with or 

 without fever, have yielded readily, safely and tho- 

 roughly to Apis in my hands. I must except, how- 

 ever, ohtolera of the epidemic form, where I have 

 not yet been able to try Apis for want of opportu- 

 nity. As far as my personal observations go, I am 

 disposed to af&rm that the best mode of eiiecting a 

 good result, is to give Apis 3 and Aconite 3, in 

 alternation, one drop of each preparation well 

 shaken in a bottle containing twelve tablespoonfuls 

 of water, and giving a tablespoonfal every hour or 

 three hours, if the danger is great, and in milder 

 cases a full drop alternately morning and evening. 

 This treatment is continued until an improvement 

 sets in, after which the organic reaction is permitted 

 to develope itself, which will terminate in a few 



