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Owing to the incessant fluctuation of the rate of exchange, this year's commercial fair at Leipzig was run under considerable difficulties...
Homeopathy (from Gk., "like disease"). Founded by Samuel C. F. Hahnemann, a Leipzig physician, in 1796. His main work was The Organon of Rational Healing, which embodies the four main principles of the homeopathic creed: 1) The "proving" or testing of all medicines on healthy persons before their use in treatment. 2) The law of "similars''-often epitomized in a Latin maxim, Similia similibus curantur. The theory is that specific drugs produce in the healthy, symptoms of the diseases they are adapted to cure. The selection and administration of the proper drug for each disease is the heart...
...Some Leipzig student players recently visited him at Doom. Said Wilhelm, addressing them: "The only thing that bears me up here is the constant growth of the monarchist movement in Germany. I cannot understand why my abdication was taken as a matter of course by the German people when I had done such immeasurable good for the country, always seeing to it that even the poorest had a sufficient income. I don't know how I can face my grandfather. . . . My hands were clean in the great struggle which was caused by Russia. Our May offensive was the greatest success...
...former Crown Prince: "Women Around the Crown Prince is a book promised by a Leipzig publishing house next month. Advance reviewers say it is mild...
...Weichardt, of Leipzig, isolated a poison which he calls kenatoxin from the muscles of small animals which had died of excessive exertion, A small quantity of this injected into a normal animal produced an increase in endurance, and a resulting antitoxin was secured which has since had remarkable effects in revitalizing tired human beings. It should be used only in emergencies...