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coldness of the limbs. 534 : pains on the left side, 

 below the last ribs. 535 : violent burning pain be- 

 low the short ribs, on both sides, worst and most 

 permanent on the left side, where it continues for 

 weeks, preventing sleep. 577 : enlargement of the 

 abdomen, with swelling of the feet, scanty urine." 



The provings of Apis show that this drug affects 

 every portion of the nervous system — the cerebral, 

 spinal and ganglionic nerves — and the process of 

 sanguification, in the same general and character- 

 istic manner as is the case in fever and ague. 



In comparing the symptoms of Apis with those 

 of any other known drug, there is no medicine that 

 bears as close an af&nity to fever and ague as Apis. 

 Howsoever useful other remedies may have proved, 

 in the treatment of fever and ague, they are only 

 homceopathic to isolated conditions, in comparison 

 with Apis. In practice, it was often found very 

 difficult, even for the most experienced physician, 

 to decide in which of these exceptional cases the 

 specifically homoeopathic agent should have been 

 employed. Sometimes no properly homoeopathic 

 remedy could be found, in which case the treatment 

 had to be conducted in a round-about way. 



All these difficulties have been effectually re- 

 moved by Apis, and the treatment of intermittent 

 fever may henceforth be said to constitute one of 

 the most certain and positive achievements in the 

 homoeopathic domain. For the last three years, 

 during which period I have experimented with 

 Apis, I have not come across a single case of inter- 

 mittent fever that did not yield satisfactorily ta 



