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50 give the patient aconite and carbonate of lime at the same time, and the quantity of lime in the spoonful of water exceeds the quantity of aconite more than a million of times. Give whatever medicine you will, in the purest common water, and you are giving it in conjunction with carbonate of lime. If you were using ordinary doses of medicine, the inconsiderable quantity of lime in common water would not be a matter of any consideration; but if such infinitesimals act at all, they may be incompatible and counteract each other.

Hahnemann was the most inconsistent of mortals—he was not only inconsistent with reason and facts, and with every principle of philosophy and common sense, but also often strangely inconsistent with himself. At one time he declares that large doses have little or no effect upon the system, because they have not been potentized by attenuation and dynamization. and at another time he says that all allopathic quantities of substances which may be used as homoœpathic medicines are poisonous, and injurious in proportion to the quantity used. He who