28 APIS MELLIFICA ; OR, 



Apis. I liave treated a pretty fair share of obsti- 

 nate and complicated cases of this disease, and have, 

 therefore, had an opportunity of testing the curative 

 virtues of Apis in a satisfactory manner. Here are 

 the results of my observations : 



Apis is the natural remedy for the pathological 

 process which is characterized by periodical parox- 

 ysms of chill, heat and sweat; the other morbid 

 symptoms being common to this process, as they 

 are to all other diseases. 



All the symptoms which have hitherto been ob- 

 served in intermittent fever, will be found, with 

 striking similarity, among the provings of Apis. 

 For a confirmation of this statement, we refer to 

 Hering's American Provings, and to Boenninghau- 

 sen's Essay on Intermittent Fevers. 



In making use of Apis in every form of inter- 

 mittent fever, we not only act in strict accordance 

 with the homoeopathic law generally, but we fulfil 

 all the requirements of the individualizing method. 

 Apis is the universal remedy in intermittent fevers, 

 for which every homoeopathic physician has been 

 longing, and which pure experiments, conducted 

 according to the rules of homoeopathy, have revealed 

 to us ; — another shining light on the sublime path 

 of the healing artist I 



The beneficent action of Apis, in intermittent 

 fever, is still increased by the fact that it prevents 

 the supervention of typhus, disorganizations of the 

 spleen, dropsy, china-cachexia. In using Apis 

 from the commencement, all such consequences are 

 avoided, and if they should have been induced by 



