Homoeopathy unveiled : or, Observations on Hahnemann, his doctrines and treatment of disease / by William Perrin Brodribb.

  • Brodribb, William Perrin.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Homoeopathy unveiled : or, Observations on Hahnemann, his doctrines and treatment of disease / by William Perrin Brodribb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fore marked 10,000th- Of this solution you again take one drop, mixing it with ninety-nine or a hundred drops more of alcohol, and shake the vial twice. This constitutes the third attenuation, each drop containing the millionth part of the primitive drop; and the vial is numbered 1,000,000 th, or T; the latter mark, T, being the symbol for a million. Of this dilution you again take a drop, and mix it with ninety-nine or a hundred drops more of alcohol, shaking the vial twice; this is the fourth attenu- ation, or one hundred millionths. Of this potency you again take a drop, and mix it with ninety-nine or a hun- dred more of alcohol, shaking the vial twice, and so obtain the fifth attenuation, or ten thousand millionths. Of this you again take one drop, and mix it with ninety-nine or one hundred drops of alcohol, shaking the vial twice, which furnishes us with the sixth attenuation, or billionth, represented thus, IT. In the same way you continue the preparation, and obtain the seventh dilution, or one hundred billionths; the eighth attenuation, or ten thou- sand billionths; the ninth attenuation, or trillionth, marked thus, TIT. By repeating this process of di- lution, the higher potencies are obtained; the twelfth attenuation being the quatrillionth; the fifteenth attenu- ation, the quintillionth ; the thirtieth, the decillionth. The attenuations or potencies are, however, carried far beyond these; the whole series now in use being divided into four classes,—lower, middle, higher, and highest. The lower potencies range up to the sixth attenuation; the middle potencies from the sixth to the thirtieth attenuation; the higher potencies from the thirtieth to the two hundredth; and the highest po-