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struction of the mucous membrane. It may seem 

 hazardous to add to this combination of destrtictive 

 forces another similarly-acting element ; but a care- 

 ful consideration of the circumstances of the case 

 "will justify such a proceeding, although death may 

 be the inevitable result of the morbid process. 

 Experience has satisfied me that the alternate use 

 of tartar emetic and Apis, a drop of the third 

 potency of each, every three, six or twelve hours, 

 according as the symptoms are more or less vio- 

 lent, or, in very sensitive organisms, in tablespoon- 

 ful doses of a watery solution of a drop, will ac- 

 complish all that can be expected; for these two 

 drugs, thus administered, seem to compensate or 

 complete each other. I am unable to say how far 

 this proceeding requires to be modified in particular 

 cases; all I desire to do, is to submit this important 

 subject to my colleagues for further inquiry and 

 trial. 



If a tendency to paralysis prevails, the danger is 

 less threatening, although equally momentous. In 

 such cases I use Apis and Moschus in alternation, 

 although I am unable to assert, on account of de- 

 ficient experience, that this treatment will always 

 prove satisfactory. Such cases hardly ever arise 

 under homoeopathic treatment; and if they come 

 to us out of the hands of allcEopathic practitioners, 

 they generally prove incurable. 



If these three obstacles to a cure appear com- 

 bined, I have never found it possible to effect any 

 thing. All that I have found it possible to do, has 

 been to prevent such a dreadful combination by 



