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Rh really, the dose has nothing to do with the law of cure—it has come to be engrafted upon Homœopathy as a matter of expediency. I may give an ounce or a pound of a drug, just as strictly in accordance with the law of similars, as when I prescribe the millionth or decillionth of a grain. It is in the selection of the exact remedy, and not in the dose, where Homœopathy lies." Again, he says, "The dose has nothing to do with the homœopathic principle." Here, then, we see the very essence of Homœopathy abjured and set at nought by the highest officer of a homœopathic society, who, we have a right to conclude, uttered the sentiments of the body over which he presided. If in these days of spiritualism, the ghost of old Hahnemann should be permitted to revisit these pale glimmerings of the moon, he will have a fearful reckoning to make with many such disciples.

But as Homœopathy is always everywhere grossly absurd in all its tenets and practices, we need not be surprised at any inconsistencies or contradictions that it may exhibit. Some of its practitioners adhere to the high, some to the low