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Rh the homœopathic theory of dynamic developments, by their own showing. The power of the article, instead of being increased, is diminished at every attenuation, until it is entirely lost.

This is true of every other medicinal substance. And if the power of musk to operate upon the olfactories ceases entirely at the fifth or sixth attenuation, what shall be thought of the one hundredth or one thousandth? Hahnemann, in his last edition of his Organon, recommends the universal employment of the thirtieth attenuation, and directs his followers never to employ any of the lower potencies, but speaks highly of using sometimes the sixtieth, one hundred and fiftieth, or three hundredth; and Dr. Nunez, of Paris, in a paper read before a homœopathic meeting in that place, reported several cases, one of which was consumption, which he declared was cured by him, with the six thousandth dilution of sulphur!

Hahnemann, in his Organon, page 192, says, "All experience teaches us that scarcely any homœopathic medicine can be prepared in too 9*