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cinal aggravations are particularly to be dreaded 

 in this malady? Who has not often felt embar- 

 rassed to select the right remedy among three or 

 four that seemed indicated by the symptoms, and 

 where it was nevertheless important, in view of the 

 threatening danger, to select at once the right reme- 

 dy? Who has not been struck by the strange irre- 

 gularity that in a disease which generally sets in as 

 an epidemic, different remedies are often indicated 

 by different groups of symptoms ? Who has not be- 

 come convinced after a careful observation of the 

 course of the disease, that nothing is more decep- 

 tive than the pretended curative virtues of corrosive 

 sublimate in dysentery, and that it is a matter of 

 duty to be mindful, in this very particular, of the 

 warning words of the master who, having himself 

 been deceived at one time by the delusive palliation 

 of mercury, addresses to us the remarkable warning 

 that " mercury, so far from responding to all non- 

 venereal maladies, on the contrary is one of the 

 most deceitful palliatives the temporary action of 

 which is not only soon followed by a return of the 

 original symptoms of disease, but even by a return 

 of these symptoms in an aggravated form." (See 

 Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases, Yol. II.) 



This delusive palliation is more particularly one 

 of the effects of corrosive sublimate in Dysentery; 

 and is exceedingly dangerous in this disease. Hence 

 we warn practitioners against this danger. 



We feel so much the more grateful to the princi- 

 ple Similia Similibus, which, even though it did 

 not protect its discoverer from faulty applications, 



