The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-06-10

some pleasant afternoon, under the un-
brageous foliage of some sequestered
trees, where we would gaze with our
mouth wide open on his face, lit up with
candor and radiating love to his fellow
men. We would say friend "Veritas,'
come, let us reason together" Then
we would ask when and where he came
in possession Of the peculiar and leading
doctrines of Homeopathy After he
had confessed his entire ignorance of this
system, we would try our skill in didac-
tics, and after unfolding to him the doc
trine of "Similia Similibus Curantur," >"
would explain to him the theory Of doses
as taught by the Homeopathic school. In
pursuing such course as this we might
convince him of his shameful ignorance OF
Homeopathy. Perhaps he is like Saul
of Tarsus, only needs to have the scales
fall off of his eyes in order to receive the
truth, and advocate it. AT other times
we think, "let him rip;" he has said his
say-his material is about expended
He won't live many years, anyhow, un-
til he will be mortified at himself for his
opposition to Homeopathy, and such a
result would not be any too good for
him; at any rate, HomGopathists do use
small portions, or infntesimal doses, as
they are sometimes called. They have
series of potencies which are composed
of dilutions of substances from the vege-
table kingdom, and triturations Of drugs
from the mineral world. To make the
first potency, or dlution, they take the
proportion of one, FIVE, or ten drops Of
| ttincture to 90, 95, or 80 of alcohol or wa
ter, and shake them together. From this
preparation they take the same number
of drops to the rates of alcohol as before.
This is called the second dilution. In
this manner they obtain any dilution of
medicine desired. On the same principle
they make their triturations, Il. e) by
rubbing up together in mortar medi-
cinal substance with one that is neutral.
The object in diluting tinctures is to pre-
vent the agravation they would occasion,
when exhibited in their concentrated form.
Some persons are very peculiar in this
respect, they cannot take a teaspoonful
of solution of one drop of Belladonna
(for example), to quart of water. Ho-
mmopathists know this, and it is for the
purpose of avoiding the evils of too great
medication that they resort to such dilu-
tions of medicine. They use triturations
for still greater reasons. There are some
substances from the mineral kingdom,
which, in their crude state, cannot be
used as medicines. Such as gold, silver,
vegetable coal, silex, &c. Let any one
swallow these articles in their natural
state, and they will not have any injuri-
GUS effects on the system, but let few
grains of either of these be triturated in
mortar with some neutral powder, su-
gar of milch (for example), and it be
comes poisonous and medicinal, from the
fact that the attraction of cohesion in
the drug is overcome, the atoms are libe-
rated, and their crystalline form is
changed, so that they can permeate any
of the blood vessels to be conveyed to
the part for which they have an electric
affinity. In addition to this, the sur
face of the drug is greatly increased
and inasmuch as a substance acts from
its surface, its power on the system is
proportionally augmented. The Re
viewer makes himself appear ludicrous
in endorsing the silly and senseless In
ferences of the mathematical computa-
tions. He seems to think that matter
can be annihilated, and because an arti-
/ Gle is not so crude as to be clutched in
his brawny fingers or to be detected BY
his acute gustatories that it must be moth.
ing at all.
Come close, reasoning, logical" "Ver
itas," and give US in ciphers, and tell Us
the space that charge of electricity
would occupy which would be sufficient
to rend assunder this world of ours; Of
if you please tell US the weight of thu
small pox contagion-give us its form
helagonal, or octagonal, and tell us it
chemical composition You probably
have bottled up the molecules Of ths