80 THE POISON OF THE HONEY-BEE. 



exhaust the reactive energies of the organism pre- 

 maturely, render it a very dangerous agent. These 

 circumstances go to show that such an agent, in the 

 hands of the partizans of the Specific School, may 

 be as dangerously and injuriously abused as other 

 important drugs have been. I cannot sufficiently 

 warn my readers against such distressing abuses. 

 Only he is protected from the danger of imitating 

 such shameful absurdities, who listens to tl^ words 

 of our master : 



" Imitate this, but imitate thia correctly 1 



