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exist. All I can do is to recommend Apis for 

 farther experiments in tliis range, and to remind 

 my brethren of the insufficiency of other drugs, 

 which has been a source of trouble to us in the 

 last ten years. Every body who has watched the 

 course of these diseases during this period, must 

 have seen the difiference existing between the pre- 

 sent and the past character of the symptoms. It 

 must, therefore, be a source of satisfaction to all of 

 us, to have found in Apis an agent that is capable 

 of filling up the gap. 



My observations regarding the curative virtues 

 of Apis in urinary, uterine and ovarian difficulties, 

 and in rheumatism and gout, are not very extended. 

 In the American Provings, symptoms 634 to 669, 

 seem to point to urinary difficulties, and 685 to 695, 

 to ovarian troubles ; symptoms 697 to 727 to uterine 

 derangements; and 837, 842, 867, 873, 874, 918, 

 919, 940, 942, 964, 969, to rheumatism and gout. 



"What little experience I have had in the employ- 

 ment of Apis in these diseases, is, however, sufficient 

 to induce me to recommend the use of it for further 

 and more enlarged knowledge. 



I have had abundant opportunities of verifying 

 the warning expressed in No. 721, "pregnant women 

 should use the drug very cautiously." I am not 

 acquainted with any drug which seems possessed 

 of such reliable virtues regarding the prevention of 

 miscarriage, more particularly during the first half 

 of pregnancy, as Apis. I have often become an 

 involuntary spectator of the power of Apis to effect 

 miscarriage ; for I had given it to honest women 



