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Rh afford no sensible evidence of any thing more than starch and sugar of milk, is efficacious in removing disease. This was not a hasty scheme, or mere theory, with Hahnemann, but a method deliberately formed and adopted, and to which he conformed his practice for many years towards the close of his life; and it seems to deserve at least a brief consideration.

When we look around us, we see that both the animal and vegetable kingdoms are undergoing continual change. All organic matter is subject to decomposition, and the common atmosphere is the great sewer into which all the light particles of effete matter are thrown. With these the air around us is always charged, to a greater or less extent. We imbibe these matters by every inspiration. Sometimes the air which we breathe is highly charged with the delicious aroma of fragrant blossoms—at another, with the foetid effluvia of some filthy receptacle. At one time, we inhale the delightful flavor of the rose or lily; and at another, the noxious exhalations of the hemlock or deadly night-shade. The common air is always much more highly charged