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52 same articles, in infinitesimal doses, to cure or obviate the effects of these large poisonous allopathic quantities. Can a man who asserts that two and two make ten, be sane? or can a man who publishes such astounding absurdities, be in his right mind?

In Hahnemann's French edition of his Materia Medica, no less than thirty-five pages are occupied in describing the effects of one millionth of a grain of charcoal. It may be asked; How did Hahnemann ascertain that such numerous, such remarkable, and such contradictory effects were produced by such infinitesimal doses of an article, which, up to his time, had been considered nearly or quite inert? He and his followers tell us that these facts have been ascertained by observations and experience. It may be proper, therefore, to examine the process by which these and other discoveries of the kind have been made.

A number of individuals, say twenty, more or less, have been selected, and to each has been given a homœopathic dose of charcoal or any other article to be tried. Each individual is