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wlio did not know tHat they were pregnant, and 

 where the fact of pregnancy was revealed to "them 

 by the subsequent miscarriage, which took place 

 after one or two doses of Apis had been taken. 

 Ever since I have made it a rule not to give Apis 

 to females in whom the existence of pregnancy can 

 be suspected in the remotest degree, until the mat- 

 ter is reduced to a certainty, and the conduct of the 

 physician can be determined upon in accordance 

 with existing facts. 



I am unable to say how far this power inherent 

 in Apis, of producing miscarriage, may be service- 

 able to females who are prdne to miscarriage. 



I beg the privilege of adding a more general 

 warning to this particular one. The more generally 

 useful a thing is, the more liable is it to abuse. 

 The most important and useful discoveries of 

 homoeopathy are abused in this manner by our 

 age given to all sorts of excesses. 



Not only are the records of homoeopathy ran- 

 sacked by speculative minds, who use her advantages 

 for personal gain without giving due credit to the 

 source whence the good things are obtained. This 

 species of egotism may perhaps be excused in con- 

 sideration of the use which this kind of plagiarism 

 affords, even if whole volumes should be filled with 

 it. But if the stolen property is paraded before the 

 world as something belonging to one's self by right 

 divine ; if of&cial influence is abused for the purpose 

 of dressing up that which rightfully belongs to our 

 science, as some original discovery, thus caricaturing 

 and disfiguring the beauty of the genuine blessing ; 



