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62 have been the first Jenner—people of every name and nation would have delighted to do him honor, and the profession would have crowned him with its proudest laurels and given him a monument higher than the Egyptian pyramids. Unborn ages would have blessed him, and his fame would have endured forever. But, alas! it utterly failed, and all the glowing anticipations of its author perished.

"We have seen that the two principal features of Hahnemann's system were the similia similibus curantur, and the infinitesimal dose. The latter seems to have been the consequence of the former. As one, in attempting to construct a machine for perpetual motion, soon finds himself under the necessity of altering some part to make it agree with some other part, so Hahnemann often found it necessary to change or modify some hypothesis to preserve the seeming harmony of the whole. According to his theory, he must give cathartics in dysentery, astringents in constipation, narcotics in coma, emetics in obstinate vomitings, &c. Now a very little practice in this way would be sufficient to