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Rh dilution—which, in the course of twenty years, has been smelt several hundreds of times, after opening the bottle in which it was, for a certain symptom that always recurred of the same character, possesses at this hour equal power as at first, which could not be the case did it not continue exhaling its medicinal power in an inexhaustible manner.' Hahnemann further states: 'It is especially in the form of vapor, by smelling and inhaling the medicinal aura, that is always emanating from a globule, impregnated with a medicinal fluid in a high development of power, and placed, dry, in a small phial, that the homœopathic remedies act most surely and most powerfully. The homœopathic physician allows the patient to hold the open mouth of the phial first in one nostril, and in the act of inspiration inhale the air out of it, and then, if it is wished to give a stronger dose, smell in the same manner with the other nostril more or less strongly, according to the strength it is intended the dose should be.' — (Organon, p. 331.)

"Dr. Crosiero, of Paris, in a communication published subsequently to Hahnemann's death, gives some more particulars respecting the practice of Hahnemann in the last years of his life, of which he assures us he was often a witness. 'Hahnemann,' he writes, 'always made use of the