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medicines acquire at each division or dilution, a new degree of power, by the rubbing or shaking they undergo, a means of developing the inhe- rent virtues of medicines that was unknown till my time ; and which is so energetic, that latterly I have been forced by experience to reduce the number of shakes to two, of which I formerly prescribed ten to each dilution " !Again (p.298), " If the patient is very sensitive, and it is necessary to employ the smallest dose possible, and attain at the same time the most speedy results, it will be sufficient to let him smell once to a phial that contains a globule the size of a mustard seed, imbibing the medicinal liquid to a very high degree.After the patient has smelled to it, the phial is to be re-corked, which will thus serve for years, without its medicinal virtues being impaired."These are some of
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