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180 in the world; but not a single bed in all these, or anywhere that we know of in any public hospital, is given to Homœopathy.

The following is from the "Medical Circular" of July 29, 1857:—

"—Mr. Wharton, an able professor of mathematics and astronomy, has had the kindness to answer the difficult questions proposed below. His address is 7 Elm Terrace, Queen's Elm, Fulham Road.

"Q.—If homœopathists give, as they profess to do, the decillionth of a grain of medicine, for a dose, and which decillionth can only be obtained by dissolving the grain of medicine in a decillion drops of some liquid—say alcohol—how long would the grain of medicine last, if the population of the world were a thousand millions, and if there were a thousand millions of such worlds, and if each inhabitant lived for a thousand years, and if they each took a dose per second during their whole existence?

"And what must be the dimensions of the vessel that would just hold the decillion drops of alcohol?

"A.—The number of generations, each subsisting a thousand years, that the grain of medicine would supply with the homœopathic dose to