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108 be continued six minutes, and that four minutes more shall be occupied in scraping the mortar after each attenuation. Ten minutes would therefore be required for each attenuation. How long would it take, at this rate, to obtain the six thousandth attenuation, provided the pharmaceutist worked ten hours every day?

This would certainly be a dear medicine—a precious morsel indeed! But, although Hahnemann supposed that he had carried all the minutiae of his system to full perfection, we find that his ingenious disciples have instituted a great number of changes, which they call improvements. The porcelain mortar is now set aside, or only used for low potencies, and the sugar, and starch, with the silex, lachesis, vaccinin, or whatever is required, are ground together in a mill by steam power, and with about as much care as feed is ground for horses.

But we are told the essence of Homœopathy consists in the selection of the exact remedy, and