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or peach colour. Here one has a picture of the way in which gold as a bearer of the yellow light can lighten the purple darkness of space to produce the bluenes of the sky and the green vegetable mantle of the earth, or in man, the microcosm, reconcile and balance the coolness of the nervous system with the heat of the metabolic system and through the rhythmic potentizing of these actions produce the subtle and beautiful peach colour of the healthy human skin.

I t might also be argued from the foregoing description that therapeutically one might expect to use gold in high potency for diseases of the nervous system, in low potency for the metabolic system, and in medium potency for conditions of the heart itself. Perhaps it may to some extent validate this descriptive account of the actions of the heart and of gold to say that this deduction is amply confirmed in practice. Try it for yourself.

Book review Lo Fundamental en Homeopat~a: au $eor~a y prdctica. By Roberto YIarzetti. HachetSe, Argen$ina. No price quoted. Pp. 595.

This book has two main parts; the first is an examination of the history of homccopathy, and a statement of its principles and practice; the second is an alphabetical list of disorders, each of which receives a brief clinical and patho- logical description followed by a discussion of homccopathie remedies that can be used to treat it. The third part is a rather sketchy materia medica, and the fourth is a repertory, also sketchy.

One of the book's main problems, in fact, is that its priorities are wrong. The first and second parts, which from a practical point of view are the least valuable, are extremely verbose, while the more important sections are poorly done. For example, presumably few doctors--at whom the book is apparently a imed-- require to be told what is meant by ache, or acute adenitis, or balanitis; the space so employed could have been much better used in ether ways.

I imagine that few British doctors, even if they read Spanish, will want to buy this book.

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