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Rh be highly charged with strychnine, which was the undoubted cause of his death. Half a grain of this article has been known to produce almost instant death. We might cite several instances nearer home, in which death has been occasioned by pretended homœopathic preparations. The truth is, every man who knows what genuine Homœopathy is, and has a single grain of common sense left, knows that that practice is an absolute nullity, and he must either content himself with doing nothing at all, or resort to such a clandestine and reprehensible method. Dr. Simpson thus alludes to this matter:

"The author of the 'Confessions of an Homœopathist' in referring to the due and adequate drugging of the Hahnemannic doses, amusingly remarks:—'Patients who are skeptical of the truths of Homœopathy, from a love of variety, or a hundred other reasons, will consult you. As these persons are inclined to ridicule infinitesimal doses, it is sometimes highly useful to give them powerful doses of various highly concentrated medicines, in globules similar in appearance to all the rest, but consisting of morphia, strychnine, arsenic, corrosive sublimate, and such like: a few of these mingled with your sugar and