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76 healthy persons by a contagion brought near or in contact with them." Here one might suppose that Hahnemann had arrived at the acme of his fanciful speculations, and had taxed the credulity of his followers to the utmost of their endurance. But not so; he goes further. You are not allowed to swallow even these infected globules, but only to smell of them. This process he calls olfaction. The following is from a work by Prof. J. Y. Simpson, of Edinburgh, entitled "Homœopathy: its Tenets and Tendencies," page 74-77.

"Writing in 1833, Hahnemann observes: 'All that homœopathy is at all capable of curing (and what can it not cure beyond the domain of mere manual surgical affections?) among excessively chronic diseases that have not been quite ruined by allopathy, as also among acute diseases, will be most safely and certainly cured by this mode of Olfaction. I can scarcely (he adds) name one in a hundred out of the many patients who have sought the advice of myself and assistant during the past year, whose chronic or acute disease we have not treated with the most happy results, solely by means of this Olfaction. During the latter half of this year, moreover, I