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To illustrate the kind of circumstances the patient is expected to record, I will mention one or two from the 313th page of the "Treatise on Chronic Diseases," being the first one at which I opened accidentally. "After dinner, disposition to sleep; the patient winks." This remedy was that same oyster-shell which is to be prescribed "fractions of the sextillionth or decillionth degree."

He does not employ common chalk, but prefers a little portion of the friable part of an oystershell. Of this substance, carried to the sextillionth degree, so much as one or two globules of the size mentioned can convey is a common dose. But for persons of very delicate nerves it is proper that the dilution should be carried to the decillionth degree.

He does not employ common chalk, but prefers a little portion of the friable part of an oystershell. Of this substance, carried to the sextillionth degree, so much as one or two globules of the size mentioned can convey is a common dose. But for persons of very delicate nerves it is proper that the dilution should be carried to the decillionth degree.

To illustrate the kind of circumstances the patient is expected to record, I will mention one or two from the 313th page of the "Treatise on Chronic Diseases," being the first one at which I opened accidentally. "After dinner, disposition to sleep; the patient winks." This remedy was that same oyster-shell which is to be prescribed "fractions of the sextillionth or decillionth degree."