It is not true that homœopathic quantities of poison kill, nor that homœopathic attenuations of variolous matter will produce smallpox. If Homœopathy were true, the poison of the rattlesnake would be made stronger by dilution, and one millionth of a drop, commingled with the waters of all the oceans, would make the whole so strong that a single drop of that attenuation, either swallowed or smelt of, would produce instant death. If Homœopathy were true, the drop of virus, which may produce the vaccine disease, should be attenuated by being mingled with a quantity of fluid sufficient to fill the orbit of the farthest planet, and its power to produce the disease would not be diminished but increased. Homœopathic arguments never take effect, except upon feeble intellects; they are so attenuated as to produce no sensible effects upon any sound minds.
