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142 and ridiculous meet, it is in this homœopathic phantasm. The discovery that the innate moral taint which it is supposed the human race have derived from their first progenitors, may be wholly eradicated by the use of lice tea, is the exclusive property of pure Homœopathy. It should be recorded in capitals in the archives of that wonderful science, and published to all the world for the benefit of mankind: and it is to be hoped that no one who adopts that system will neglect this most essential part of the practice.

Yet as strange as it may seem, let it not be supposed that Dr. Mure stands alone in this matter; his practice is in perfect accordance with a fixed principle of Homoeopathy, which is everywhere recognized. "Similia similibus curantar" is their law of cure. Dr. Hering recommended the swallowing of the 30th attenuation of bugs to cure bug bites; Dr. Rummell and others gave the attenuated virus of the smallpox for the cure of that disease; and Hahnemann believed that all medicinal substances produced emotional or moral affections of some sort. According to Jahr's Manual, which is the backbone of