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Rh solemnly declared Hahnemann to be a "messenger from Heaven." The same doctrine has been taught by other of his disciples both in this country and in Europe. He is spoken of as "the new Evangelist" "the most inspired of discoverers." A writer in an English journal, called the "Family Herald," for November, 1850, says—"Religion itself has undergone a spiritual revolution since the date of Hahnemann's discovery."

A few years ago a clergyman of the church of England, the Rev. Thomas R. Everest, Rector of Wickwar, in Gloucestershire, preached a sermon in aid of a homœopathic hospital. This sermon, as might be expected, was replete with homœopathic theology as well as medicine. This reverend divine declared that the Itch, as Hahnemann had discovered, was a moral, as well as a physical malady. He finds it so represented in Scripture, and argues that the solemn command of Christ to his disciples, to "cleanse the lepers," (Matt. x. 8), was actually a command to cure the Itch.

"The taint (says he) is, as Scripture has