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they continue to alternate more or less witli consti- 

 pation, or painful, insufficient, hard stool, until they 

 terminate sooner or later, according as the disease 

 is more or less deep-seated, and had lasted more or 

 less long, in permanent restoration of the normal 

 secretions and excretions of the digestive organs. 

 At the same time the many distresses which the 

 abnormal condition of the bowels and stomach had 

 occasioned in the head and heart, disappear; the 

 poor patient who had been a prey to so many suf- 

 ferings, feels like one born again. 



This is the general result, unless psoric, sycosic, 

 syphilitic or vaccinine complications should be pre- 

 sent. Unfortunately the abuse of cathartics excites 

 these miasms if they exist in the organism, and at 

 the same time prostrates the reactive powers of the 

 organism, and enables its enemies to rise against it. 

 The distress becomes more and more complicated-, 

 disorganizations, alterations of the fluids, distur- 

 bances of the assimilative sphere, nervous derange- 

 ments from simple illusions of the sentient sphere, 

 and occasional trembling and twitching, to spas- 

 modic and convulsive movements, and final extinc- 

 tion of nervous power, marasmus of the spinal 

 marrow, or ramoUissement of the brain; these are 

 the consequences of such miasmatic complications. 



In such a case Apis alone is not sufficient. "We have 

 to employ such antidotes as Sulphur, our most pow- 

 erful anti-psoric, which, unless it had been abused 

 previously, never leaves us in the lurch in the pre- 

 sence of psora; iodine which, under similar circum- 

 stances, becomes indispensable wherever psora and 



