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as far as its influence, just as the sphere of a rose extends 

 as far as its odour. The character builds the form, and 

 the form expresses the character. 



But this harmony existing between the form and the 

 character is furthermore remarkable in certain other 

 conditions and qualities, which are often of more import- 

 ance to a physician than the external shapes. " If the 

 physician understands the anatomy of medicines and 

 the anatomy of diseases, he will find that a concordance 

 exists between the two. There is not only a general 

 relationship existing between the Macrocosm and the 

 Microcosm, but a separate and intimate interrelation 

 and interaction exist between their separate parts, each 

 part of the great organism acting upon the corresponding 

 part of the small organism in the same sense as the 

 various organs of the human body are intimately con- 

 nected and influencing each other, and manifesting a 

 sympathy with each other that may continue to exist 

 even after such organs have been separated from the 

 trunk." There is a great sympathy existing between 

 the stomach and the brain, between the mammae and 

 the uterus, between the lungs and the heart. ^ There 

 is, furthermore, a great sympathy existing between the 

 mind and the thoughts and the organs of the human 

 body. Such a sympathy exists between the thoughts 

 and the plants, between stars and stars, between plants 

 and plants, and between the plants and the organs of 

 the human body, in consequence of which relationship 

 each body can produce certain changes in the activity 

 of life in another body that is in sympathy with the 

 former. Thus may the action of certain specific medi- 

 cines in certain diseases be explained. As a bar of 

 magnetised iron induces magnetism in another bar of 

 iron, but leaves copper and brass unaffected, likewise a 



^ Dr. J. R. Buchanan, in his *' Therapeutic Sarcognomy, " makes prac- 

 tical use of this sympathetic relationship existing between the various 

 parts of the human body. 



