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QUACKERY UNMASKED.

found her with a common red rose in her hand, and said to her, "Mrs. ——, you must not smell of roses, for, if you do, my medicine will not have any effect upon you!" I told her that the homœopathic practitioner had probably told her the truth, once at least; for if his medicines were genuine homœopathic attenuations, they would not have any effect upon her, whether she did or did not smell of the rose. The brain of this man probably retained some glimpses of the power of olfaction.