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sycosis are combined; hichromate of potash ox fluoric 

 acid, if psora, syphilis and mercurial poisoning are 

 united ; and lastly, tartar emetic, or again fluoric 

 acid, if the vaccine poison alone, or in combination 

 with the other poisons, occupies the foreground. 



This is not the place to treat of these special forms 

 of human distress, and to individualize their treat- 

 ment ; I shall endeavor to do this on a more suit- 

 able occasion. I shall have to limit myself here to 

 a superficial sketch of the treatment, adding merely 

 that a single dose of the specific antidote will act 

 best if given highly potentized, and that the im- 

 provement should afterwards be allowed to progress 

 as long as a trace of it remains visible. But as soon 

 as the improvement stops and an exacerbation sets 

 in, which is not speedily followed by another im- 

 provement, or which seems to require our aid, we 

 use Apis 3, one drop every day, until the improve- 

 ment is again perceived, after which we wait until 

 another exacerbation demands our interference. 

 One dose of Apis is often insufficient ; if not, from 

 three to five doses will be found sufiioient to miti- 

 gate the pains, and to advance the cure which Apis 

 will complete in conjunction with the high potency 

 that should not be repeated, and which is not inter- 

 fered with, by the Apis. What more precious boon 

 for the physician and patient in these serious mo- 

 ments ? It is only a physician who has instituted 

 provings upon himself, that is capable of compre- 

 hending this harmonious blending of the two thera- 

 peutic agents. He sees the weU known effects of a 

 well known cause go and come at alternate periods. 



