are likewise cured by Apis in the speediest and easiest manner.
We find the following symptomatic indications in the American Provings:
"682, painful pimple, suppurating in the middle, with red areola;
painful like a boil, in the hairy region on the left side above the os
pubis, continuing painful for several days; 1196, furuncles with
stinging pains; 844, 845, violent, stinging, burning pain at a small
spot on the left side, in the lower region of the nape of the neck; also
on the back part of the head; swelling at the nape of the neck, so that
the head is pressed forward towards the chest; 1222, dark bluish-red
painful swellings, with general malaise; 1167, acute pain and
erysipelatous swelling, very hard and pale in the centre."
Apis has been a popular remedy for boils from time immemorial; the
people have been in the habit of covering boils with honey, more
particularly honey in which a bee had perished.
Apis, hom[oe]opathically prepared, is better adapted to such an end than
honey. A few drops of Apis 3, shaken with twelve tablespoonfuls of
water, a tablespoonful of this solution every three hours, generally
relieves the pain in a short period, promotes suppuration, effects the
discharge of the decayed cellular tissue, and a speedy cure of the
furuncle.
If furuncles incline to become carbunculous, the ichorous matter is
speedily changed to good pus, and all danger is averted.
In a case of carbuncle the gangrenous disorganization of the skin and
cellular tissue becomes very soon confined to a small spot; the dead
parts are separated from the living tissues; the fever is hushed; the
disorganizations which it threatens are averted; a healthy suppuration
is established throughout the gangrenous part, detaching and removing
all decayed matter, and replacing the loss of substance by new
granulations until the sore becomes cicatrized in such a hardly
perceptible manner, that any one who is acquainted with the ravages of
this disease, and is in the habit of seeing deep and disfiguring
cicatrizes, even in the most successful cases, is disposed to deny the
fact that such an intensely disorganizing process has been going on in
this instance. No other remedial means are required, much less a
surgical operation.
Inasmuch as carbuncle is generally preceded for a longer period by a
deep-seated feeling of illness in the organism, showing that the psoric
miasm pervades the tissues, it behooves us, in order to secure all the
better a favorable result, to give a dose of highly-potentized Sulphur
at the very outset of the disease. After having used the first portion
of Apis, a globule of Sulphur 30 or 6000 may be interposed, the former
in all cases where no Sulphur had been used, and the latter in cases
Sulphur had been used in large doses. We permit such a dose to act for
twenty-four hours, after which Apis is resumed, and continued according
to the above stated rule.
Sulphur should likewise be given in all cases where the furuncles
reappear at different periods. Such a reappearance of the eruption,
after it had once been cured by Apis, shows that a psoric taint pervades
the organism which it is absolutely necessary to meet with specific
counter-acting remedies.
The more frequently we meet such difficult complications, and see with
our own eyes their successful treatment, the more we learn to appreciate
the fact, _that Apis cures to a certainty the most dangerous affections
of this kind, and that the anti-psoric remedy corrects at the same time
the primary degeneration of the tissues, without either interfering with
the operations of the other drug, on the contrary, by assisting each
other_. In