The Potency of High Dilutions.—From French sources we derive the following incident: Madame de X—,feeling rather poorly, sent for her doctor, a homeopathist, and asked him to give her a "potion" which might make her able to go the same evening to a ball. The "Esculapian" wrote his prescription, and the servant was at once sent to the chemist. On his return, as he met Monsieur de X—, and gave him the potion. That gentleman, whose father was an allopathic doctor, dislikes Hahnemann's pupils, and thought it a rare opportunity of correcting forever his wife's mania for the principle of "Similia similibas curantur." He threw away all that was in the bottle, and filled it with fresh watter. Madame de X—drank with confidence the contents of the bottle, felt herself much better (or at least thought so, for c'est la foi qui sauve) few hours afterward, and finally went the same evening with her husband to the ball, for which she had been longing so much for some time. The homeopathic doctor had been also invited. As soon as he saw M. de X— he took him aside, and told him: "Now, awful unbeliever, will you dare any more in future to deny the prodigious effects of our medicines?" M. de X—began to laugh so loud that all the persons present asked him the reason of his hilarity. As, although the two gentleman differ on medical matters, they are, however on very good terms, M. de X—thought the best was to relate his fraud. The homeopathist, without being disturbed in the least, answered: "My dear sir, you must have shaken the bottle; one drop was left, very likely, and it was quite enough to operate the cure."— Phrenological Journal.
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