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114 see two or three kinds of powders, or perhaps, more frequently, two glass tumblers, each apparently about half full of water. These tumblers, the homœopathist tells you, contain two kinds of medicine, to be given to the patient alternately, every half hour, or perhaps once in one, two, or three hours. If Hahnemann in his lifetime had been made acquainted with such gross violations of his most positive directions, he would have entirely disowned all such disciples, and pronounced his severest anathemas upon them. At the present time, one who is nominally a homœopathist gives emetics, another cathartics, another bleeds, another uses counter-irritants; and thus by degrees these practitioners are stepping into the domain of what they call, by way of reproach, Allopathy. This change may perhaps slightly contribute to prolong the existence of Homœopathy, but it is very unfortunate for those who patronize that class of practitioners. When homœopathists dealt exclusively in sugar mites, and high attenuations, their practice was nugatory and harmless; but when they resort to the use of the most powerful drugs concealed under