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48 who created the elements, and provided for man his food and drink, saw fit, for wise purposes, to mingle carbonate of lime in nearly every thing which we swallow. The sick man swallows it in every glass of water, and in quantities much larger than Hahnemann directed. And would it not be the height of folly to attempt to cure a patient by giving him a decillionth of a grain of the article, once in six or eight hours, when every spoonful of water that he swallows contains more than a thousand such doses, and when he has taken the same article every day of his life? Certainly, we should think that he had taken it long enough to cure him of any disease that such an article was capable of curing. Nay, more; unless the disease existed in embryo, he could never have it at all, because he has used the medicine as a prophylactic from his earliest infancy, therefore he cannot possibly have any disease that carbonate of lime in such doses will cure.

There is another consideration connected with this article. Hahnemann directs that only one single, simple medicine shall be given at a time.