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Rh In his Organon, pages 319 and 320, he says: "In no case is it requisite to administer more than one single, simple medicinal substance at one time." Further, he says: "It is impossible to foresee how two or more medicinal substances might, when compounded, obstruct and alter each other's action in the human body." He further says: "Some Homœopathists have made the experiment, in cases where they deemed one remedy suitable for one portion of the symptoms of a case of disease, and a second for another portion, of administering both remedies at once, or almost at once; but I earnestly deprecate such hazardous experiments, that can never be necessary."

Now what shall be done? Nearly every homœopathic remedy is a compound, and consists of two or more elementary substances. But if you had a simple elementary substance, how could you administer it by itself alone? Say, for instance (which is not a fact), that aconite is a simple elementary substance, and you wish to give the patient one drop of the thirtieth attenuation of this drug in a spoonful of water—you