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98 minute a dose." And again, page 194, he says, "I must observe in this place, that it is a common fault of physicians, who go from the old school of medicine, to the homœopathic, to violate this most important rule. Blinded by prejudice, they avoid small doses of medicine attenuated to the highest degree, and thus deprive themselves of the great advantages which experience has a thousand times proved to result from them." So it seems that Hahnemann's experience confirmed him more and more in the superior efficacy of high attenuations; and during the last years of his life he became more scrupulously devoted to high potencies. Now let us compare this doctrine of the immortal Hahnemann, as his disciples call him, with the declarations of some conspicuous homœopathic leaders.

About two years ago, a Dr. Preston, President of the Rhode Island Homœopathic Society, got up a public meeting in Taunton, Ms., to enable him to deliver a famous lecture of his upon Homœopathy. An extract from that lecture, published by his friends, reads as follows: "But