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66 one wild effort to grasp it, we instinctively look around to see if we are in or out of the body. A friend of mine has a fine morocco case containing eighty small vials—forty of these are filled with dry globules, and the other forty with a fluid, and labelled—one "opium," another "aconite," another "belladonna," &c. Now if the labels should be removed, and the vials disarranged in the case, no one could ever tell which was the opium, and which the aconite, or which the belladonna.

We will analyze a case in homœopathic practice. A man is sick with some rheumatic affection. The doctor visits him and leaves six or eight small white powders. The good woman inquires what is the name of the medicine, and is told that it is natrum muriaticum. She cannot comprehend the meaning of the term, but concludes that it is some newly-discovered homœopathic remedy, and therefore asks no further questions. Now let us examine this case a little. Natrum muriaticum, in common language, is common salt. Hahnemann's dose is one decillionth of a grain, and its effects last from