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64 world, that the best dose of the properly selected remedy is always the very smallest one in one of the high dynamizations (∓), or thirtieth dilution—a truth that is the inestimable property of pure homœopathy." Hahnemann declared that "liquid medicines do not become weaker by greater and greater attenuation, but always more potent and penetrating." According to him, also, succussion, or shaking, infinitely increases the power. He says, "Of late years I have been compelled, by convincing experience, to reduce the ten succussions, formerly directed to be given after each attenuation, to two." See Organon, p. 316. He gives this direction, he says, in order to set bounds to the dynamizing process, lest the medicine should by too many shakes be made so strong as to be unsafe.

Any one who wishes to try the experiment, can provide himself with thirty new vials, as directed in Hull's Laurie, page 51, and proceed to make the attenuations according to the rules there laid down. But if he attempts to carry a whole drop through to the thirtieth degree,