x HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINES. 



While the differences of sexes in all living beings 

 beneficently binds them together in prolific union, the 

 crude matters of inorganic nature are impelled by like 

 instincts. Even in the darkness of chaos, matter was 

 accumulated or separated accordingly, as affinity or 

 antagonistic matter attracted or repelled its various parts. 

 The celestial fire follows the metals, the magnet, the iron ; 

 amber when rubbed attracts light bodies; earth blends 

 with earth ; salt separates from the waters of the sea 

 and joins its like. Everything in inanimate nature 

 hastens to associate itself with its like. 



The beauteous aspect of the world, the order of the 

 celestial bodies, the revolution of the sun, the moon, and 

 all the stars, indicate sufficiently at one glance, that all 

 this is not the work of chance. 



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Homoeopathic medicines have been used by pli 

 cians at various dilutions : from the mother tinct 

 to the two-thousandth attenuation ; for ordinary pur- 

 poses however, I would advise my readers to confine 

 their selections from the mother tincture <j> to the 

 3rdx, or 6x dilution, as being the most useful and effica- 

 cious, and is moreover in accordance with the views of 

 the majority and more advanced sections of homoeo- 

 pathic practitioners in this country and Amerir 

 constitute the ordinary potencies prescribed by the 

 writer for many years, and have proved eminently suc- 

 cessful in his hands. 



Mode of Administration. 

 We have observed that there are four modes of pre- 



