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second dose of the same remedy would not do any n:\ore 

 good than the former had done. In this case we have to 

 review the symptoms a second time, and to select a different 

 remedy. If the first dose should produce a favorable 

 change in the symptoms of the disease, and this change 

 should again be followed by an aggravation, it is proper to 

 give a second dose of the same remedy. If the symptoms 

 should become aggravated after the first dose, we should 

 not all at once resort to a different remedy ; for this aggra- 

 vation might be what we have termed homoeopathic aggra- 

 vation, which would soon be followed by a favorable re- 

 action. In all very acute diseases that run a rapid course, 

 and after one, two, or four weeks, terminate in death or re- 

 covery, such as Glanders, Pleura, Pneumonia, et cetera, the 

 dose should be repeated every five, ten, or fifteen minutes. 



In such dangerous maladies, the first dose is often fol- 

 lowed by a visible improvement, which soon ceases, how- 

 ever : Jihis is the time to repeat the dose, and a second dose 

 may then be eminently useful. In chronic diseases that 

 run a long course, the medicine may be repeated every 

 day, or every two, three, or four days. In such cases the 

 rule is, likewise, not to interfere with an incipient improve- 

 ment by giving another dose of the same or some other 

 remedy. 



If the improvement stops, the medicine may be repeat- 

 ed, and if no improvement at all should set in after a rea- 

 sonable lapse of time, another medicine may be chosen. 

 Among the class of chronic diseases we number all ner- 

 vous and mental diseases, lingering fevers, etc. An im 

 proper remedy do3s not produce any very injurious effects ; 

 for a homoeopathic remedy only acts upon a disease to which 

 the medicine is really homoeopathic : otherwise the small- 

 aess of the dose is such that the medicine canuot possibly 



