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Rh with sugar of milk, can be given in small white powders without the least trouble; and whilst the patient and his friends suppose it is the same harmless thing as before, it is a concentrated poison disguised by sugar. This is one of the great improvements in Homœopathy. Every intelligent practitioner knows that pure attenuations are useless except as placeboes; therefore when such men wish to use an active remedy, they have recourse to such concentrated articles as can be given in the guise of Homœopathy. In this way, the most dangerous weapons are concealed under the apparently inoffensive garb of Homœopathy—weapons, which are always dangerous in any hands, and doubly so in the hands of men whose reason has gone astray In chasing the phantoms of Hahnemann, and whose brain has been jarred by Jahr's Manual.

Homœopathists see that patients prefer to swallow little doses of tasteless powders, and they cater for that appetite. The sick man is struck with horror at the thought of castor oil—he can never endure it; but he will swallow, without reluctance, one-fiftieth of a grain of