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CARBO VEGETABILIS.
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contain any of the medicine used in the beginning, is beyond the power of man to tell.

Hahnemann assures us that the almost infinitesimal doses of articles that have been considered inert, do, after being prepared in the manner described, actually possess immense power. The following are the effects of one decillionth of a grain of charcoal, as stated in Jahr's and Possart's New Manual, page 111.

"General Symptoms.—Pains with anguish, heat, despair, or followed by languor. Rheumatic drawing and tearing, with lameness, especially in the limbs, with distress caused by flatulence, or with stoppage of breath, when affecting the chest. Pains as if sprained in the lower limbs, or as after straining by lifting. Burning pains in the limbs and bones. Throbbing in the body, here and there. Ailments caused by straining in lifting, and by riding in a carriage. Chronic ailments caused by abuse of cinchona. Morbid conditions like influenza. Cholera. Tremor and twitching of single limbs, in the day-time. The limbs go to sleep. Paralysis. Most of the pains come on during a walk in the open air. The limbs, early in the morning, after rising, feel lamed and bruised. Debility of the bends