Some years since, (^fifteen or twenty) I was engaged upon the books
of the Brooklyn Board of Health. It occurred to me to attempt to
settle for myself this question, concerning which, at that time, I was in
doubt. To this end I obtained from a man who kept the books and
collected the accounts of a large number of my colleagues, the names
of those who had about the same amount, and the same class, of prac-
tice in our city. Among them were some who habitually, and as a rule,
employed the potencies from the 6th to the 200th, as well as others who
never went higher than the 3rd, and as a rule, employed the tinctures
only.
With this as a basis for comparison I continued my investigations,
and found that the number of deaths from diseases accounted cura-
ble was greater among the high dilutionists in the proportion of from
ten to forty to one. That is, where a low dilutionist lost one such case,
from ten to forty were chargeable against the high dilutionist. So over-
whelming was the evidence that, though at times and in chronic dis-
eases, I still sometimes employ the 6th, and even the 30th attenua-
tion, in the vast majority of instances I employ the tinctures, or the
lowest potencies. I consider this test the best one that can be found,
and if we are to have any committee upon the question, let us have a
similar investigation.
Dr. H. M." Paine seconded the motion of Dr. Wbight and hoped
that a committee on clinical tests and record of experience would be
appointed.
It was so voted, and Drs. Wright, Paine and Brown were appointed
as snob a committee.
Dr. F. Pakk Lewis, cliairman of the Committee on Transactio/is,.
