Apis Mellifica; or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent — John Shaqi
Apis Mellifica; or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic AgentWolf, C. W.
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Apis Mellifica; or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent
Wolf, C. W.
Bees -- Venom -- Therapeutic use; Homeopathy
It is undoubtedly true that Hahnemann has revealed to us the means of
surpassing in this disease the allœopathic wisdom of a thousand years,
by a far more successful, safe and expeditious treatment. Nevertheless,
much remains to be desired in this dreaded disease. Who does not know
that medicinal aggravations are particularly to be dreaded in this
malady? Who has not often felt embarrassed to select the right remedy
among three or four that seemed indicated by the symptoms, and where it
was nevertheless important, in view of the threatening danger, to select
at once the right remedy? Who has not been struck by the strange
irregularity that in a disease which generally sets in as an epidemic,
different remedies are often indicated by different groups of symptoms?
Who has not become convinced after a careful observation of the course
of the disease, that nothing is more deceptive than the pretended
curative virtues of corrosive sublimate in dysentery, and that it is a
matter of duty to be mindful, in this very particular, of the warning
words of the master who, having himself been deceived at one time by the
delusive palliation of mercury, addresses to us the remarkable warning
that "mercury, so far from responding to all non-venereal maladies, on
the contrary is one of the most deceitful palliatives the temporary
action of which is not only soon followed by a return of the original
symptoms of disease, but even by a return of these symptoms in an
aggravated form." (See Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases, Vol. II.)
This delusive palliation is more particularly one of the effects of
corrosive sublimate in Dysentery; and is exceedingly dangerous in this
disease. Hence we warn practitioners against this danger.
We feel so much the more grateful to the principle Similia Similibus,
which, even though it did not protect its discoverer from faulty
applications, yet finally led us to the discovery of the right remedy
for dysentery.
No.'s 590 and 599 in the American Provings, read as follows: "Violent
tenesmus; nausea, vomiting and diarrhœa, first lumpy and not fetid,
afterwards watery and fetid, lastly papescent, mixed with blood and
mucus, and attended with tenesmus; afterwards dysenteric stools, with
tenesmus and sensation as if the bowels were crushed;" combining these
symptoms with the general character of Apis, particularly the
circumstance that not only the ordinary precursors and first symptoms of
dysentery, but also its terminations and its sequelæ, and its most
important complications find their approved remedy in Apis; all this
shows us that Apis is a natural remedy for dysentery. This truth is
abundantly confirmed by experience. All my previously obtained results
in practice, testify to the correctness of this statement.
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