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Homoeopathy Like Cures Like says nothing about 

 the size of the dose. In the early days, large doses were 

 given until it was noticed that there were " aggrava- 

 tions" drug symptoms before cure, though the cure 

 followed. This led to a reduction of the size of the 

 dose. In doing this the drugs were minutely subdi- 

 vided, and then the wonderful discovery was made that 

 small doses reduced to atoms while mingled with milk 

 sugar or alcohol were far more potent for cure than 

 when administered in a cruder state. They had been 

 potentized, i.e., made more powerful in disease, and, at 

 the same time, rendered comparatively harmless for evil 

 if taken by mistake, by means of the small dose. That 

 this theory of potentiation is correct can easily be 

 demonstrated by the fact that men have swallowed 

 leaden bullets or shot and experienced no bad results, 

 while every one knows that if the same quantity of 

 lead, reduced to the finest powder, were to be swallowed, 

 the most terrible consequences would ensue. 



The Truth of Homoeopathy. 

 The crucial test of every scheme of medicine is its 

 result with the sick. In this respect homoeopathy leads 

 all competitors ; indeed, truly viewed, it has no com- 

 petitors, for it is the great Natural Law of Cure, while 



