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Rh Homœopathy, every article used in medicine, even in decillionth doses, produces some peculiar moral symptoms. Sulphur produces "despair of eternal salvation"; pulsatilla produces "continual praying"; gold taken internally produces "excessive scruples of conscience"; colocynth produces a "want of all religious feeling"; and aconite an "irresistible desire to swear and blaspheme." (See Jahr's Manual, Paris edit.)

In the British Journal of Homœopathy, published in 1849, Hahnemann is styled the "indefatigable apostle of Homœopathy"; the system is declared to be "not a science merely, but also, for those who comprehend it, a sublime devotion, a form of religion, a rainbow of divine union, holding out to mankind the promise of speedy regeneration." This speedy regeneration, as we have seen, was to be effected, not by moral means, but by the internal administration of the pediculus capitis, or human louse, which, taken in decillionth doses, Dr. Mure assures us will effectually eradicate that innate corruption which has been suffered to run in the blood of a11 the descendants of Adam.