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without exerting any injurious effects upon the 

 parasite-bearer. Without any sympathy for the 

 system of infinitesimal doses, I have an equal dis- 

 like to over-drugging. Patients no doubt are some- 

 times unwise enough to look for a display of what 

 they are pleased to call an active, vigorous, and 

 masterly mode of treatment ; but the careful phy- 

 sician, who by a prolonged study of any one par- 

 ticular class of disorders has familiarized himself 

 with all the possible bearings of the case, must be 

 guided by sounder indications than, those which 

 commend themselves to uninstructed persons. 

 Whenever we allow ourselves to be taught and 

 led by natural laws we are sure to effect some 

 good, for in this way we place ourselves and our 

 method in harmony with a teaching which is 

 essentially Divine. 



