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150 cured by like. The first he reduced to positive mathematical rules, which he ordained as the fixed and unchangeable law of Homœopathy. The latter could only be settled by repeated experiments and extensive observations. Accordingly, he made trials of various articles upon himself and others, and directed his followers to do the like; so that, after all, the selection of the remedy to be used in any given case was left to the judgment and choice of each individual practitioner. And as only infinitesimal doses were to be employed in such experiments, it is easy to see that the experience of no two would be likely to correspond, and consequently all homœopathic practitioners would be left without any guide in therapeutics, unless they followed some master spirit of their own sort, who knew no more than they did themselves, or borrowed our materia medica. Therefore some preferred one course, and some the other, and others both. But having no fixed bond of union, except the law of attenuations, and their faith in that also becoming attenuated, they were soon found to disagree in many essential particulars. Some