y HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINES. 



properties of marvellous efficacy, which are potent against 

 the disease ; and inert against the constitution, when 

 homoeopathically or specifically selected. Triturations, 

 on the contrary, are chiefly prepared from substances 

 derived from the mineral kingdom. Among these may 

 enumerated sulphur, mercury, arsenic, zinc, tin, 

 baryta, gold, silver, iron, lime, copper, alum, tellurium, 

 and many more. The mode of preparing the various 

 potencies from the matrix triturations is similar to those 

 prepared from the tinctures; for the manipulation of 

 which the reader is referred to the pages of the Homoeo- 

 pathic Pharmacopoeia, recently published under the 

 auspices of the British Homoeopathic Society. 



Pilules and Globules. 



These little pellets, which have afforded our allopathic 

 brethren no scanty field for amusement and ridicule, 

 are not in reality homoeopathic medicines at all : they 

 are simply elegant and ingenious little vehicles for the 

 administration of the various remedies when reduced 

 to the liquid form (tincture), and used on the same prin- 

 ciple as Doctor Dosewell; selects honey, syrup, jam, or 

 jelly for his nauseous compound of grey powder, rhu- 

 barb, senna, or Dover's powder -.inquovis veKiseuloc, 

 -in some convenient vehicle : or as once facetiou 

 translated by a candidate for the licence of the Apothe- 

 caries' Company in some stout Hackney coach. 



On the Selection of Remedies. 



The fundamental principle of homoeopathic practice 

 the law of cure as discovered, demonstrated, an 



