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156 which is ten times more powerful than an ordinary dose of castor oil. These things come to us in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Some prefer to take the homoeopathic medicines because they are so very nice. But do they know that the poison saliva of the boa constrictor is a homœopathic remedy for weakness, gout, rheumatism, faintings, nervous affections, dyspepsia, vomiting, hysteria, palpitation of the heart in young girls, and just one hundred other complaints? (See Jahr's Manual, pages 310—311.) Do they know that spiders, worms, bugs, and lice, are homœopathic remedies for purifying the humors, and that the scab of the smallpox is the standing remedy for that disease? These and many more of the like kind are some of the exquisite morsels of Homœopathy.