Six months! You do not know how I detest the country, partridges, rabbits and all.

For heaven's sake, find some other remedy for me.' "'There is homoeopathy,' said he, smiling.

'Hahnemann is quite the fashion now.' "'Let us have homoeopathy!' "'You know the principles of the system: 'Similia similibus!' If you have fever, redouble it; if you have smallpox, be inoculated with a triple dose.

So far as you are concerned, you are a little used up and 'blase', as we all are in this Babylon of ours; have recourse, then, as a remedy, to the very excesses which have brought you into this state.
Homoeopathize yourself morally.

It may cure you, it may kill you; I wash my hands of it.' "The doctor was joking, I said to myself after he had left.