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have been so prepared that it shall have 

 become a medicine instead of a poison, 

 in order that it may attract the other, 

 may take it up into its own nature, and 

 expel it. 



A proof of this action of natural 

 affinities may be observed in the effect 

 of soap upon linen. Soap is composed 

 of oil, fat, and other greasy substances, 

 which seem much more likely to sully 

 than to cleanse linen. But by means of 

 digestion, and through the action of salt, 

 a certain rectification and separation Has 

 taken place, so that the soap now, in- 

 stead of smirching the linen, attracts to 

 itself all the impurities with which it is 

 defiled, and renders it clean and white. 

 In the same way poison may be so pre- 

 pared as to become instead a purifying 

 medicine, which attracts to itself all the 

 corruption of the human system, and 

 restores it to perfect soundness and 

 health. 



As we have begun to point out to 

 the true student of medicine what is 

 good and what is evil in Nature a 



