22 APIS MELLIFICA; OE, 



quent complication with organic disease of the 

 spleen and consequent dropsy. Apis, used in the 

 same manner, effects, in as short a period as the 

 intensity of the symptoms will permit, a mitigation 

 and gradual disappearance of the painfulness of the 

 spleen, restores the normal action of the spleen more 

 and more, and neutralises the tendencjr to dropsical 

 effusion at the same time as it expels the accumu- 

 lated fluid by increasing the secretions from the 

 bladder and bowels, and the cutaneous exhalation. 



If the liver is organically diseased. Apis is no 

 longer sufficient. In such a case, the action of the 

 liver has first to be restored to its normal standard. 

 In dropsical diseases, I have effected this result most 

 frequently, for years past, by means of Carduus 

 mariae, less frequently by Quassia, still less fre- 

 quently by Nux vomica, and only in a few cases by 

 Chelidonium: according as one or the other of 

 these agents seemed indicated by the epidemic char- 

 acter of the disease. In all non-malignant cases, 

 if the medicine was permitted to act in time, the 

 whole disease was often cut short by the use of these 

 drugs, and the development of typhoid symptoms 

 prevented. Not, however, in all more inveterate 

 cases, where the prevailing character of the disease, 

 by its more penetrating action upon the tissues, in- 

 duced a slower and more threatening course of 

 development. As soon as the pains in the right 

 hypochondrium had disappeared, the bilious quality 

 of the fseces had been restored, and the urine had 

 become lighter colored, but the fever still continued, 

 tongue, throat, pit of the stomach and abdomen had 



