APIS MELLIFICA. 



" The bee helps to heal all thy internal and external maladies, 

 and is the best little friend whom man possesses in this world." — 

 More in Cotton's Book of the Bee, p. 138. 



SnsroE Hahnemann's successful attempt to deve- 

 lop the medicinal nature of Aconite, no other 

 discovery has been made in the domain of practical 

 medicine, as comprehensive and universally useful 

 as the discovery of the medicinal virtues of the 

 poison of the bee. It is of the utmost importance 

 to the interests of humanity to become as intimately 

 acquainted with the efl&caoy of this poison as possi- 

 ble. It is the object of these papers to contribute 

 my mite to this work. 



As soon as Dr. Hering had published the provings 

 of the bee poison, in his " American Provings," I 

 at once submitted them to the test of experience in 

 an extensive practice. I prepared the drug which 

 I used for this purpose, by pouring half an ounce 

 of alcohol on five living bees, and shaking them 

 during the space of eight days, three times a-day, 

 with one hundred vigorous strokes of the arm. 

 From this preparation, which I used as the mother- 

 tincture, I obtained attenuations up to the thirties 

 centesimal scale. So far, the effects which I have 



