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FURUNCLES AND CARBUNCLES
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
PANARITIA
Apis proves the same invaluable remedy.
Genuine panaritia only spring up in psoric ground, and in regard to
extent and intensity of development, depend altogether upon the existing
psoric taint. Hence it is indispensable to extinguish this taint by
appropriate remedies. This is most effectually accomplished by at once
giving Sulphur, the most powerful of our anti-psorics. Sulphur seems to
attack the evil at its very foundation, and we feel perfectly satisfied
with its action, except that we would like to hasten the course of the
disease still more, in order to abbreviate the tortures inherent in
this malady. This result is most certainly accomplished by means of
Apis.
If panaritia are the result of excessive doses of Sulphur, Apis meets
our case perfectly. In hundreds of cases panaritia spring up and will
continue to spring up from such a source, as long as the world continues
to live in darkness, and to reject the rays of truth which the genius of
Hahnemann has sent forth among the benighted understandings of his
fellow beings. Notwithstanding Hahnemann's teachings concerning the
medicinal power of Sulphur, which the world has now been in possession
of for years, and which the most thoughtful minds have accepted as a
truth, the true friend of man has still to weep over the quantities of
Sulphur which all apothecaries sell to any one at his option;
hæmorrhoidal patients continue to swallow Sulphur from day to day;
almost every body, from the child up to the old man, who is affected
with catarrh, swallows the so-termed pulmonary powders which contain
Sulphur, and of which relief is expected; whole legions repair every
year to the Sulphur Springs; young and old use sulphur-baths at home;
all over the world, the itch, which is a very common disease, is removed
by means of a sulphur ointment, &c. One of the evil consequences of this
ignorance, which particularly oppresses the laboring class, is the
artificial development of panaritia; the more frequently these occur,
the more necessary it is to employ speedy and safe means for their
extermination. In such a case we can no longer depend upon Sulphur, of
which we cannot possibly know how far it has already poisoned the
organism, and to what extent it may still be able to rouse a reaction;
in which case, even those who know, may be led to make dangerous
mistakes. In all such cases Apis is of the best use to us; it is even
sufficient to arrest the disorganizing process, and to bring about a
satisfactorily progressing cure.
The curative indications contained in the "American Provings," have been
confirmed by my own experience. We read in Nos. 903-911, "the phalangeal
bones are painful; burning jerking, like a stitching, contracting
sensation, in the right numb, from without inwards; drawing pains
reaching the extremities of the fingers; distinct feeling of numbness in
the fingers, especially in the tips, around the roots of the nails, with
sensation as if the nails were loose, and as if they could be shaken
off; burning in the tips of fingers, as from fire; fine burning stinging
in the tips of the fingers; burning around a hang-nail, on the outside
of the fourth finger of the right hand, with pain internally, without
redness and without aggravation from pressure, with continual burning in
the tip; swelling of the fingers, which remained painful for several
days; 915, blister at the tip of the right index, discharging a bloody
ichor when opened, and afterwards a milky pus, with violent burning,
throbbing, and gnawing pains, continuing to spread for two days." |
