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HOMŒOPATHY.
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have become convinced of what I never could previously have believed, that by this mode of Olfaction, the power of the medicine is exercised upon the patient in at least the same degree of strength, and that more quietly, and yet just as long as when the dose of medicine is taken by the mouth; and that, consequently, the intervals at which the Olfaction should be repeated, should not be shorter than in the ingestion of the material dose by the mouth."—(Organon, p. 332.)

"Dr. Gross, using, as we have seen, medicines of the highest potency, 'often contented himself with allowing the patients to smell the remedy—whether with one or more globules at one time I am not aware—waiting patiently for four weeks or so, for the completion of the cure, not even permitting a second smell or dose, so mild yet certain is the remedial action.'

"Hahnemann appears to have employed the exhibition of his infinitesimal drugs by smelling in two different ways, viz.:—First, By sometimes making the patients smell a dried decillionth globule;—or, Secondly, By dissolving a globule or two in water and spirits, and making the patient hold his nose over the surface of this solution of it.

"In relation to the smelling of dried globules,