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his Lesser Writings, page 822, Hahnemann describes the manner by which simple globules, composed of nothing but sugar and starch, are to be medicated and prepared for use. This is done by shaking one medicated globule with several thousands of unmedicated globules. "This much (he observes) is deducible from experiments, that a single dry globule, imbibed with a high medicinal dynamization, communicates to 13500 unmedicated globules with which it is shaken for five minutes, medicinal power fully equal to what it possessed itself, without suffering any diminution of power itself." And he continues to say, "It seems that this marvellous communication takes place by means of proximity, and contact, and is a sort of infection, bearing a strong resemblance to the infection of