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glings of the powers of life against the disease. They make use of many fine-spun theories, drawn from analogy, in support of their hypothetical doctrines, and at last they arrive at the conclusion, that the power of all medicinal agents is one and the same; and that this power is nothing more nor less than electricity, moving the body in some of its parts or atoms, either inwards or outwards. And by the law of elective affinity they assure us that their medicine is directly attracted by the part of the system most affected, and by moving its organic atoms in the right direction everything is soon set to rights and the patient cured. If it is asked by what means are their cures wrought, I answer in their own language: "Chrono-Thermalism rejects no earthly agent but the bleeding lancet, the leech, and the scarificator." According to their theory, all medicines possess electrical powers, and the beauty of their practice consists in using the right remedy at the exact moment, so that by its electrical force it may hurl the organic atoms from an abnormal to their normal condition. Hahnemann declared that the world was in igno-