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Rh scarcely used any other preparation. Since then, my practice, which has always been a successful one, has become still more so, and those who have taken my advice are enthusiastic in their approbation of this course.'—[Preface to Boenninghausen's Pocket Book.]

"It will be perceived by the following extract from a letter written by Dr., of this city, dated &#39;Wildbad, September 6th, 1855' that Dr. still continues to use these high potencies with astonishing success:—

"' * * * As to the dose, since 1843, has given the 200th potency, prepared after 's method. At first he gave this occasionally, then more frequently as experience gave him confidence, and for the last eight years he has given almost no other potency.' * * * 'During six weeks I spent the greater part of each day in his office, observing every patient, and noting every prescription and its effects. It has never been my fortune to see good results follow any treatment so quickly and so uniformly; and that, too, in diseases the most deeply rooted and the least amenable to ordinary treatment.'

"In another part of the letter, he says:—

"'His journals contain records of more than six hundred cases of epilepsy, of which nearly three fourths were cured.'

"Again he adds:—

"'Critics say, "these potencies may do in chronic diseases, but they will not act in acute