20 APIS mellifica; or, 



gastric catarrhal symptoms, whicli are speedily 

 succeeded by symptoms of disintegration of the 

 animal fluids and typhoid phenomena ; that the gas- 

 tric irritation is generally characterized by boils, 

 urticaria, erysipelas of the skin, and the nervous 

 irritation by symptoms of abdominal typhus ; that 

 the internal and external development of the disease 

 is determined by a striking sympathetic derange- 

 ment of the organic functions of the liver, and still 

 more of the spleen, and likewise by a more striking 

 prominence of the intermittent type of the fever ; 

 and that all these varied disturbances finally culmi- 

 nate in abdominal typhus. 



Owing to this remarkable similarity, Apis will 

 effect striking cures of all these different derange- 

 ments. 



If, after more or less distinctly felt premonitory 

 symptoms — after a sudden cold, excessive exertions, 

 prostrating emotions or enjoyments — a more or less 

 violent fever is developed, accompanied by dulness 

 and painfulness of the head, retching and vomiting, 

 distention and sensitiveness of the pit of the sto- 

 mach, and soon after of the whole abdomen, with 

 urging diarrhoea, pappy and foul taste in the mouth, 

 loss of appetite and thirst, feeling of dryness in the 

 mouth and throat, tongue sore, as if burnt and 

 swollen, with antagonistic change of symptoms, sus- 

 picious and extraordinary prostration, and feeling 

 of fainting ; a few spoonfuls of the above-mentioned 

 solution of Apis 3, will afford such speedy relief, 

 that it may seem incredible to those who have not 

 witnessed it. The nausea, the vomiting, the diar- 



