eeply involved in the disease, Apis is powerless. These are the only
exceptions to the curative power of this drug. Here we are told by our
law of cure, that the sphere of Lachesis commences. We give one or two
globules of Lachesis 30 in seven dessert-spoonfuls of water, a
dessert-spoonful every twelve hours, and in acute cases every three
hours; and the good effects of the medicine must seem miraculous to one
who is not accustomed to this mode of treating diseases. Already in a
few hours the patient becomes tranquil, showing that the process of
disorganization has been arrested; the improvement continues from hour
to hour; the sleep becomes more tranquil; the cutaneous secretions, and
those of the bowels and kidneys, become more active; after the lapse of
one, or at most two days, the urine begins to look clearer and
lighter-colored, and in about three days a return of the natural color
of the urine shows that the functions of the liver are restored to their
normal standard; the patient is able to do without any further medical
treatment, and the natural reaction of the vital forces will be found
sufficient to effect a cure.

If I have not mentioned the affections of the kidneys, which may be
present in this disease, it is because I have become satisfied by years
of experience, that they constitute secondary affections in scarlatina,
and that we should commit a great error if we would draw conclusions
regarding this point from post-mortem phenomena.

Nobody who has observed the resemblance, at any rate, during the present
epidemic, between

RUBEOLA

and scarlet-fever, will deny that the remarks which we have offered
concerning this latter disease, likewise apply to rubeola. In

MEASLES,

likewise, Apis will prove a curative agent.

In the American Provings, Apis is indicated in this disease by the
following symptoms: "No. 1103, heat all over; the face is red as in
scarlatina; eruption like measles; cough and difficult respiration as in
croup; muttering delirium; 1211, superficial eruptions over the whole
body, resembling measles, with great heat and a reddish-blue
circumscribed flush on the cheeks; 1218, measle-shaped eruption."

If we add to these symptoms the peculiarity inherent in Apis, to cause
catarrhal irritations of the eyes, such as occur during measles, we have
a right to infer that Apis will prove a valuable remedial agent in
measles.

Although common mild measles do not require any medicinal