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
These observations do not indeed show with characteristic certainty the
diseases to which Apis might correspond. But if they are contrasted with
the total character of Apis; if we consider that Apis develops a
catarrhal irritation throughout the whole intestinal mucous membrane,
affecting most deeply the nervous system and the normal constitution of
the fluids, we have sufficient ground to experiment with Apis in those
respiratory diseases which seem to be inherent in the prevailing genius
of disease, and which are characterized by the very conditions which I
have described. Who is not struck by the fact, that the same individual
morbid process is reflected by different forms of disease, _croup_,
_whooping-cough_, _influenza_, _acute and chronic bronchial catarrh_?
The more essential the resemblance between these forms of disease and
the medicinal power, the more certainly may we expect a cure. The
medicinal power which seems to be most adequate to this end, is
undoubtedly Apis. My observations in this respect are not sufficiently
numerous to enable me to offer positive directions concerning the best
mode of using the medicine in these diseases, or concerning the extent
of the curative process or the complications that may exist. All I can
do is to recommend Apis for further experiments in this range, and to
remind my brethren of the insufficiency of other drugs, which has been a
source of trouble to us in the past ten years. Every body who has
watched the course of these diseases during this period, must have seen
the difference existing between the present 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 employment of Apis in these
diseases, is, however, sufficient to induce me to recommend the use of
it for further and more enlarged knowledge.
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