10 APIS MELLIFICA; OR, 



is to give a globule of Apis 80, and to watch the 

 result for some twenty-four hours. After the lapse 

 of this period the improvement will either have 

 resumed its course, or else it will continue unsatis- 

 factory. In the latter case we should give another 

 dose of the above-mentioned solution of Apis 3. 

 Not unfrequently I have met with patients upon 

 whom Apis acts too powerfully, causing pains in 

 the bowels, interminable diarrhoea, of a dysenteric 

 character, extreme prostration and a sense of faint- 

 ing. In such cases the tumultuous action of Apis 

 is mitigated, and the continued use of this drug, 

 rendered possible by giving Apis in alternation 

 with Aconite in water, every hour or two hours. 



Except such cases, I have never been obliged to 

 resort to other accessory means. 



Apis is no less efficacious against the higher grades 

 of ophthalmia. 



It is particularly rheumatic, catarrhal, erysipela- 

 tous, and oedematous ophthalmia, which is most 

 rapidly, easily, and safely cured by Apis, no matter 

 what part of the eye may be the seat of the disease. 



The symptoms 188-307 distinctly point to the 

 curative virtues of Apis in ophthalmia : " Sensitive- 

 ness to light, with headache, redness of the eyes ; he 

 keeps his eyes closed, light is intolerable, the eyes 

 are painful and feel sore and irritated if he uses 

 them ; weakness of sight, with feeling of fullness 

 in the eyes ; twitching of the left eyeball ; feeling 

 of heaviness in the eyelids and eyes ; aching, sore- 

 pressing, tensive, shooting, boring, stinging, burning 

 pains in and around the eyes, and above the eyes in 



