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Apia requires more time to heal the mucous mem- 

 brane of the alimentary canal ; to restore the nor- 

 mal action of the bowels ; to regulate the digestive 

 functions; to procure quiet and refreshing sleep, 

 and to gradually effect a complete restoration of 

 health. If the mucous membrane of the respira- 

 tory organs was invaded by the morbid process, 

 the cure was nevertheless completed as soon as the 

 mucous lining of the intestinal canal was restored 

 to its natural condition. 



So far, the only obstacle to a cure which I have 

 witnessed, has been tuberculosis of the chest or 

 abdominal viscera, or of both at the same time, and 

 still more the vaccine-virus; likewise a tendency 

 to paralysis in persons who were otherwise mor- 

 bidly affected. Tuberculosis has often been com- 

 bated by a single dose of a high potence of Sul- 

 phur between the doses of Apis, no Apis being 

 given after the Sulphur, as long as the course of 

 the typhoid symptoms would render it safe to post- 

 pone this medicine. I have found it much more 

 dif&cult to conquer the vaccine-poison, which I 

 have hecome satisfied hy years of observation, consti- 

 tutes the most universal and most powerful generator of 

 the typhtis which is prevailing in our age and which 

 seems unwilling to have us. Tartar emetic proves 

 in this, as in other cases, its antidotal power against 

 the vaccine-virus; but under no circumstances is 

 more caution required in the use of tartar emetic 

 than in typhus, where the vaccine-virus seeks to 

 develop its characteristic pustules with a tendency 

 inherent in each pustule to terminate in the de- 



