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Rh their accounts with the great farce and sink beneath the waves of returning reason.

In the United States the subject is newer, and therefore not quite so nearly worn out. In some locations it is yet quite new; many are curious to see the wonder and try it themselves, and many of its advocates still expect to reap golden harvests from it. But its brief day of glory here will also soon pass away; the clouds that are gathering over the eastern horizon will soon cover the west and spread an eternal pall over this strange delusion. Indeed, it would have come to a final end in the United States long ago, if homœopathic practitioners had continued true to the principles laid down by Hahnemann, and used nothing but pure attenuations. This inevitable result was so apparent, that all their sagacious practitioners resorted to the dishonest use of active medicines under the guise of Homœopathy. This is their last resort; and as soon as this fraud is sufficiently exposed, Homœopathy will become a hissing and a by-word. Like all other delusions, it succeeds better in some communities than in others. It makes little or no