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112 starch globules, will cause effects to be felt by the skeptic, which will quickly overcome his disbelief: he generally makes an excellent patient, and often a good decoy-duck. Never scruple in paralytic cases to give strychnine largely, but never allow it to be supposed that you are giving more at a dose than the one-hundred-thousandth of a grain. This rule may be followed in other complaints with other very active drugs, such as croton oil; but this is one of our profoundest secrets, and must be kept so. Were it known, our wonder-working powers would be reduced in the estimation of the public and the regulars.'"

As we have said before, the principles laid down by Hahnemann and imperiously enjoined upon his followers, are not at all regarded by a large portion of the homœopathic practitioners of the present time. If they claim that they have improved upon his system, the claim is false; instead of improving upon his scheme, they repudiate, one by one, every principle which he laid down, and have found it expedient to resort to various subterfuges, in order to save the entire homœopathic fraternity from immediate and utter extinction. A very few may endeavor to