We have no intention of taking any part in the
quarrel about homoeopathic medicine into which Lord Grimthorpe has plunged with his usual pugnacious verve ; but it is at least worth remarking that Mr. Millican has scored for his side by showing that, even on the evidence of eminent men who would abjure homoeopathy as they would abjure Satan, there are cases in which a drag that in normal doses produces a bad symptom, will in small quantities alleviate it. Mr. Millican quotes Dr. Ringer's"Handbook of Therapeutics " and Dr. Lauder Brunton's "Handbook of Pharmacology, Therapeutics, and Materia Medica," to prove that both these eminent men recommend very small doses of ipecacuanba in a certain class of nausea oases, —indeed to cure vomiting. There cannot be a doubt that, as far as if goes, that does tend to support the principle that simaia ',halibut; euraniur ; but then, it does not go very fir, and so far as we know, no medical man, however opposed to homoeopathy, ever laid it down that a drug which in large quantities tends to aggravate a symptom, could never be used in small quantities to alleviate it.
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