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resolution may be depended upon in every case, where apis has been
resorted to in time. a healthy suppuration will always set in after the
exhibition of apis, provided sulphur or a psoric taint do not gain the
ascendancy. if the sulphur miasm gains the ascendancy, there will be no
marked improvement during the first days of the treatment. in such a
case we have at once to resort to a very high potency of sulphur. a
single globule of sulphur 6000 would frequently ameliorate the worst
aspect of the case as by a miracle, after which a few more doses of apis
3, a drop morning and evening, would so improve the symptoms, as to
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if the psoric miasm should be the cause of the retarded improvement, as
may easily be determined by the predisposing circumstances of the case,
and if no sulphur should have been administered previously, it is
expedient to discontinue the use of apis, and to at once exhibit a
globule of sulphur 30, which may be allowed to act for twenty-four
hours, after which apis is to be resumed in the same manner, until a
cessation of the pain manifests the cure of the disease.
these explanations likewise point out the true course to be pursued, in
case we should at the outset find that a whitlow owes its existence to
the psoric miasm.
ever since hom[oe]opathy has enabled us to treat this dreaded affection
with positive and specific remedies in a most satisfactory manner, the
horrible pains which characterize this trouble, and the mutilations to
which it so frequently leads, only exist in quarters where egotism, the
love of lucre and the absence of all conscientiousness prevents
physicians from inquiring into the merits of our superior mode of
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this disease which causes so much distress in life, is likewise, in its
essential nature, an outbirth of psora, and, as regards its local
character and its effects upon the constitution of the patient, it seems
to be characterized by the same inflammatory and suppurative process as
whitlow, and be endowed with a similar tendency to organic destruction. what experienced physician has not often seen the hip show such
symptoms of disease, particularly after violent frights and anguish? who
has not seen blows on the back and nates, by way of punishment, attended
with such consequences? who has not seen coxarthrocace develope itself
during the course of a severe cerebral disease, scarlatina or typhus,
where the patient, on suddenly awakening to consciousness from a state
of stupor, is made sensitive of the presence of this insidious disease,
perhaps already fully developed? since i have used apis, i have never
had to deplore such saddening results.
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according to my observation, we may regard apis as a specific remedy for
spontaneous limping; every new trial confirms me in this statement. apis
may be depended upon as a capital remedy in every stage of this disease,
as long as the psoric miasm is kept in the background; but as soon as
the psoric taint is fully developed, a suitable anti-psoric has to be
given in alternation with apis. my experience has led me to prefer kali
carbonicum to all other anti-psoric remedies in this disease. |
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inasmuch as the keenest observer may overlook the right moment when the
psoric poison begins to operate, it is well to forestall the enemy at
the very commencement, which may be done with the more propriety, the
more certainly we know that these two remedies, apis and the
anti-psoric, not only not counteract, but mutually support each other
from the beginning to the end of the treatment. as a general rule, this
one dose is sufficient to arrest the further development of the disease,
and to award all danger so completely, that one, who is unacquainted
with the nature of the malady, feels disposed to assert that it never
existed. but if the pains continue, and are accompanied with fever, i
resort to apis 3, after kali had been allowed to act for a day or two,
mixing a drop in twelve tablespoonfuls of water, and giving a dose every
hour, or every two or three hours, according as the pains come on more
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quieted, after which the two remedies are permitted to act without any
further repetition of the medicine.
if the inflammation of joint sets in suddenly and with violent
fever, as is often the case after violent commotions, castigations,
etc., we prepare a of in same manner as apis,
and give these two medicines in tablespoonful doses every
hour. after these two solutions are , and the first assault of
the disease has been controlled, we give a of 30, and
permit it to for -four hours.. .. |