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Rh of his disorder consequent upon the first homœopathic dose, he may live, if he can, until the end of sixty days, when he will surely be cured homœopathically. In like manner this homœopathic principle of cure may be applied to almost any other disease with the like result. Now what man of common sense would think of conducting any kind of business upon such a theory? What man, having a friend nearly strangled, would draw the cord a little tighter to relieve him? What engineer, whose boiler was ready to burst, would let on more steam to save it?

As has been already stated, Hahnemann's system was based upon two chief principles. The first was his "similia similibus curantur" which we have briefly considered. Of this he did not claim to be the original inventor, but said that it had long been recognized and acted upon. But he did claim to be the first to discover that the power of medicinal substances may be indefinitely increased by dilution and trituration. The power thus imparted to medicines he called their dynamic power; in other words, their strong or