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■when leaning against a thing; general debility; 

 worse during cold weather, accompanied by asth- 

 matic pains ; cough ; sense of suffocation ; pains in 

 the chest ; coldness and deadness of the extremities, 

 which looked bluish; sense of soreness; lameness; 

 sense of bruising in the chest, as after recent con- 

 tusions by a blow ; jamming, etc. 



These observations do not indeed show with 

 characteristic certainty the diseases to which Apis 

 might correspond. But if they are contrasted with 

 the total character of Apis; if we consider that 

 Apis develops a catarrhal irritation throughout the 

 whole intestinal mucous membrane, affecting most 

 deeply the nervous system and the normal consti- 

 tution of the fluids, we have sufficient ground to 

 experiment with Apis in those respiratory diseases 

 which seem to be inherent in the prevailing genius 

 of disease, and which are characterized by the very 

 conditions which I have described. Who is not 

 struck by the fact, that the same individual morbid 

 process is reflected by different forms of disease, 

 croup, whooping-cough, irijiuenza, acute and chronic 

 bronchial catarrh? The more essential the resem- 

 blance between these forms of disease and the 

 medicinal power, the more certainly may we ex- 

 pect a cure. The medicinal power which seems to 

 be most adequate to this end, is undoubtedly Apis. 

 My observations in this respect are not sufi&ciently 

 numerous to enable me to offer positive directions 

 concerning the best mode of using the medicine in 

 these diseases, or concerning the extent of the 

 curative process or the complications that may 



