This is Homoeopathy. Is there any thing so terrible about it? Anything so contrary to reason, so awful and pernicious as to bring down upon it the vials of allopathic wrath? But is it said, I did not suppose this was Homoeopathy? I thought that it consisted in infinitesimal doses. Then there never has been a greater mistake. Upon this man of straw have been poured vials of wrath and torrents of indignation. Homoeopathy consists not in the amount of the dose, but in that dose being given in obedience to the great principle already stated.

The question then is, how large a dose, given strictly homoeopathically, is necessary to produce a cure with the greatest safety, and in the least amount of time. Hahnemann, when he commenced the practice of his new system gave his medicines in the ordinary-sized doses to which he had been accustomed in the allopathic school. But he very soon ascertained, that where medicines were given after a close and accurate study of the symptoms, and were intended to act specifically, this course would not answer. He must, from an inevitable necessity, if he wished to cure his patient, obtain the drug in its purest form, and give it in minute doses. Hence arose the system of infinitesimal doses. It was the work of necessity, the direct result of the homoeopathic law. And yet this system of infinitesimal doses, without regard to the great homoeopathic law of which it is the natural result, has been held up as ho-mmojtathy, and been made a target against which have been hurled the sneering and contemptible shafts of ridicule, falsehood, and misrepresentation. The sapient allopath, to show the inertness of homoeopathic medicines, has heroically swallowed a dozen of the medicated globules, never dreaming that in so doing, he was only showing his own ignorance and folly, for it is the great law of our system, that for these globules to produce their legitimate effect, a peculiar class of symptoms must be present, to which the remedy is homoeopathic. the diseased state of the system also far increases its susceptibility to medicines.

Let us briefly examine this system of infinitesimal doses, and see if reason and experience do not teach us, that even small things, so far as appreciable quantity is concerned, are capable of producing a tremendous effect. It must be borne in mind, that in homoeopathy, the drug, in addition to its being administered in obedience to a fixed law, is obtained in its purest form, and, unmixed with any other medicinal substance, is allowed to produce its specific effect. This is not the case in allopathy. There, as they themselves have often lamented, but very little dependence can be placed on their drugs, as it is almost impossible to obtain them pure, and as if this were not enough to destroy the little specific action they might exert, three or four medicines are often combined together, thus, the one destroying in a great measure the effect of the other. Where can be the necessity of pouring into the stomach an enormous quantity of drugs, when, if given in a pure state, a much smaller amount would produce a more decided effect? Who would think of crowding the stomach with crude Peruvian bark, when the curative principle of the bark is at hand, in the form of quinine?

But let us look at nature, from whose vast store-house we can draw glorious lessons of wisdom and truth. Let us glance at those silent operations, which are capable of producing such mighty changes in the world of matter. It is true, our Creator might, if he chose, have made this world, which now moves on in such order and harmony, to have creaked and groaned in every joint, he might have made the smallest fly to have buzzed thunder, but He had no such absurd idea of order and power. Let those who ridicule the fact, that an infinitesimal amount of matter so small as to possess no appreciable weight, or taste, can exert any influence, creep out of their narrow shell, and open their eyes to the wonders going on around them every day and every hour.

The earthquake is on its fearful march, and the earth trembles before its mighty power. Cities are overwhelmed and mountains rent and torn like paper. Volcanic fires burst from the quaking earth, and with tongues of flame and lava flood deluge in fiery ruin the surrounding country. Touch, taste and weigh in human scales these subtile forces, which produce such tremendous power. The electric current strikes the traveler dead to the earth. Gather up the particles and tell us their weight and measure. Standing in New-York a message is transmitted with lightning speed along the telegraphic wires to New-Orleans. Tell us the amount and size of the electric particles, which bear the message on to its destination.

When vegetable substances are subjected to heat and moisture, certain atoms or molecules are set free, which diffused in the atmosphere, may infect hundreds with intermittent fever. And yet do those moving through a miasmatic district, smell, taste or see the subtile poison which is so powerfully to affect them? Can the chemist detect it by any process of analysis with which he is acquainted?

Minute particles are constantly escaping from persons affected with small-pox, scarlet fever, and other diseases, which passing into the air are capable of affecting hundreds and thousands of persons with the same disease. Cases are on record where a letter merely written in a house where a person was sick with the small-pox, and transmitted through the mail hundreds of miles, has communicated the disease at the end of the route and infected a whole neighborhood.

In whatever part of the world we go, we find the needle of the compass pointing toward the magnetic pole, showing that the molecules or atoms, which escape from this magnetic deposit pervade the whole universe. Can we see or taste them, or if they were all collected together, could we weigh them?

The dog, as well as other animals, traces its prey by the sense of smell for miles, and a single grain of musk scents the room for days without any appreciable diminution in quantity. Gold may be divided into particles of 1/1..5.0.0..0.0.0..0.0.. of a square inch and still possesses the color and other characters of gold. A single drop of a solution of indigo, colors 1000 cubic inches of water, so that the particles of indigo must be smaller, than the twenty-five hundred millionth of a cubic inch. Linen yarn has been spun, a pound of which was 1.432 English miles in length. A visible portion of such thread could not have weighed more than 1/127.080.000 of a grain.