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82 of Gold, in accordance with Hahnemann's own rules, to the quintillionth trituration, a mass of sugar, not only higher and broader than the entire range of the Alps, or of the Andes, or of the Himalayas, but as large, at least, as globes or worlds the size of the entire Earth, would be required. Yet Hahnemann avers that one single grain of Gold, distributed duly and equally through such an inconceivable mass, or series of masses, of sugar, would invest every single grain of these masses taken and put into a small clean phial, with a power of restoring a 'morbidly desponding individual, with a constant inclination to commit suicide, in less than an hour, to a peaceful state of mind, to love of life, to happiness, and horror of his contemplated act, if he perform but a single olfaction in the phial."

The method of treating diseases by what Hahnemann calls olfaction, seems to cap the climax of his great discoveries—it was the culminating point to which he finally arrived after long years of laborious investigation. He fixed upon this as the safest and most effectual method, and gave it his last approving touch. According to this idea, the insensible evaporation that is supposed to pass off from a few minute globules, which