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28 The effects of the medicine last, according to Jahr's and Possart's New Manual (page 565) just thirty-six days, and if the patient can hold out until that time, he will be sure to be cured homœopathically.

Take another case. A child is sick with croup—he breathes with great difficulty—he throws his head back and gasps wildly at every sonorous inspiration. He cannot hold out much longer, and the least aggravation of his must destroy him immediately. But before he can be cured or relieved homœopathically, he must swallow a medicine that will produce, at least, a small increase of the symptoms immediately after it is taken. (See Organon of Homœopathic Medicine, page 204.] The articles proper to be given are, according to Hull's Laurie, page 348, aconite, and sulphuret of potash. The effects of the former continue from one to two days, and of the latter sixty days.—[See Jahr's Manual, pages 1 and 267.]

So, then, after bringing separate parts of this fine theory together, we see that if the patient is not destroyed immediately by the small