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In further corroboration of Dr. Simpson’s remarks, I may be permitted to furnish here a few brief extracts from Jahr’s “Manual of Homoeopathic Medicine” (Vol. I., pp. 386 et seq.):—

Symptoms produced by common House-Salt.—Rigidity of all the joints, which crack when they are moved,... Bad effects of a disappointment.... Frightful dreams of quarrels, murders, fire, thieves, etc.... Typhus fever with debility.... Awkwardness.... Numbness and insensibility of one side of the nose.... Speech embarrassed in consequence of the heaviness of the tongue.... Loss of appetite, especially for bread, and repugnance to tobacco smoke.... Numerous flaws in the nails.... Redness of the great toe, etc. (The list contains at least thirty additional symptoms.)

At the present day it is hard to believe that as recently as during the first half of the nineteenth century there existed an editor who was willing to publish such childish reading matter as the above. And yet one is obliged at the same time to admit that the appearance of text like this in a reputable book furnishes good evidences that there was no lack of readers to whom the information imparted proved acceptable.