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In order to guard myself from misrepresenting you, I shall quote your own words. The inferences you specify as the result of your deliberations are:" 1. That in a large proportion of the cases treated by Allopathic physicians, (that is, of the old school,) the disease is cured by nature, and not by them. " 2. That in a lesser, but still not a small proportion, the disease is cured by nature, in spite of them; in other words, their interference opposing, instead of assisting, the cure. " 3. That, consequently, in a considerable proportion of diseases, it would fare as well, or better, with patients, in the actual condition of the medical art, as more generally practised, if all remedies, at least all active remedies, especially drugs, were abandoned. * * * * "Although Homeopathy has brought more signally into the common day-light this lamentable condition of medicine regarded as a practical art, it was one well known before to all philosophical and experienced physicians. " It is, in truth, a fact of such magnitude,-one so palpably evident, that it was impossible for any careful reader of the history of medicine, or any long observer of the processes of disease, not to be aware of it. What, indeed, is the history of medicine but a history of perpetual changes in the opinions and practice of its professors, respecting the very same subjects-the nature and treatment of diseases? And, amid all these changes, often extreme and directly opposed to one another, do we not find these very diseases, the subject of them, remaining (with some exceptions) still the same in their progress and general event? Sometimes, no doubt, we observe changes in the character and event, obviously depending on the change in the treatment,-and, alas, as often for the worse as for the better; but it holds good as a general rule, that, amid all the changes of the treatment, the proportion of cures and of deaths has remained nearly the same, or, at least, if it has varied, the variation has borne no fixed relation to the difference of treatment." (P. 257-8.) "The foregoing elucidations, it will not be doubted, disclose a lamentable state of things; but it is not a state to be despaired of; much less is it one to be concealed as something disgraceful. It is more our misfortune than our fault LETTER TO DR. FORBES. 7 be considered new-new absolutely, or new in their form, mode of administration, and principle of action-we would, have hardly expected the old relations of curability and inScurability exactly preserved. Does not this fact, common to tBoth, seem to point to a community of power, or want of Power, in the two classes of agents, rather than to a speclTlity of action and potency in one?"-P. 244. And so determined are you to make out your point against the old system, as possessing little, if any, potency as a system of curing, that you behave very liberally (as your Allopathic friends will think) to the recorded successes of Homaeopathy; but with the purpose of bringing both the old and new systems to the level of your power of nature. "These tables, (Fleischmann's Homceopathic tables, for instance, substantiate this momentous fact, that all our ordinary curable diseases are cured in a fair proportion, under the Homceopathic method of treatment. Not merely d6 we see thus cured all the slighter diseases, whether acute or chronic, which most men of experience know to be readily susceptible of cure under every variety of treatment, and under no treatment at all; but even all the severer and more dangerous diseases, which most physicians, of whatever school, have been accustomed to consider as not only needing the interposition of art to assist nature in bringing them to a favourable and speedy termination, but demanding the employment of prompt and strong measures to prevent a fatal issue in a considerable proportion of cases. And such is the nature of the premises, that there can hardly be any mistake as to the justness of the inference. Dr. Fleischmann is a regular, well-educated physician, as capable of forming a true diagnosis as other practitioners, and he is considered by those who know him as a man of honour and respectability, and incapable of attesting a falsehood. We cannot, therefore, refuse to admit the accuracy of his statements as to matters of fact; or, at least, to admit them with that liberal subtraction from the favourable side of the equation, which is required in the case of all statements made by the disciples and advocates of new doctrines. Even after this rectification, we see enough that remains to justify the inference above deduced. No candid physician, looking at the original report, or at the small part of it which we have extracted, will hesitate to acknowledge that the results there set forth would have been considered by him as satisfactory, if they had occurred in his own practice. The amount of deaths in the fevers and eruptive diseases is certainly below LETTER TO DR. FORBES. 9 obtained by Dr. Henderson in the treatment of his cases, would have been considered by ourselves as very satisfactory, had we been treating the same cases according to the rules of ordinary practice."-P. 250. Now all these admissions have the appearance of fairness, and considering the manner in which the facts both of Fleischmann and myself have been misrepresented by uncandid reviewers, they will seem startling and extreme to most of your professional readers. Yet they are fair only in a degree,--only to the level of your hypothesis regarding the power of nature, and far short of the truth. A greater amount of success than the old system you will not admit Homoeopathy to procure; you allow it to run neck and neck with the former in the treatment of some of the most dangerous inflammations even, but not a hair's breadth more. It must not pass the line of your preconceptions, let the "hard words, and harder figures of statistical tables" say what they may. But the subject is far too important to be slurred over in a way so summary and inaccurate, and I, therefore, hope you will excuse me if I keep somewhat closer to the facts than your hypothesis finds it convenient to do. To get rid of the overwhelming evidence of the superiority of the Homceopathic practice, as shown on a comparison of Dr. Fleischmann's tables with similar tables of Allopathic physicians, you object to all the statistical tables that profess to exhibit the comparative results of treatment of any kind. The genius of the diseases at different seasons, the influence of the sex, age, and condition of the patients, are so many circumstances that seem to you to deprive the statistics, hitherto published, of value in such a comparison. And you are right to this extent, that we have as yet no statistical details sufficiently minute, or so carefully classified, as to enable us to determine to a fraction what is the amount of superiority. which one kind of treatment possesses over another. But a degree of precision such as this is not necessary in the inquiry we have on hand. We want to know, simply, on which side, the. Homceopathic or the Allopathic, the advantage lies, and not the exact amount of the advantage. And to settle this point there is an ample accumulation of sufficiently minute information to leave no room for doubt respecting it. In large collections of cases of any disease, the sex, age, and condition of the patient, and the date of the disease when brought under treatment, becomes so much equalized, that there is no danger, in comparing them, LETTER TO DR. FORBES. 15 give the latter less than its due, small as.that may be. Grisolle, as you know, left eleven slight* cases of pneumonia to take their own way undisturbed by treatment, and he gives an account of the time during which the characteristic expectoration, pain, and fever continued, and of the period at which the phenomena of auscultation began to decline, and when they disappeared. He does the same in reference to the cases that were treated by blood-letting, and tartar emetic, and affirms, justly, that the latter were convalescent sooner than the former. The details are to tthe following effect: 1. In the eleven left to nature, the pain did not cease in a single case before the seventh day; in several it lasted till the 20th, 25th, and 27th days; the mean was fifteen days. In four he was forced to have recourse to cupping, owing to the persistence of the pain, and one of them required a blister in addition. [He helped the power of nature a little, after all.] In the cases that were bled, (two hundred and thirty-two in all,) the mean duration of the pain was seven days. In those that were treated with tartar emetic alone, (fortyfour in number,) he does not mention the mean duration of the symptom. But he says, " the first sign of amendment consisted in a diminution, and sometimes a total cessation of the pain, which was often very pungent and acute." In five * In alluding to them, you say, "Dr. Henderson misjudges these cases in terming them ' slight,' in comparison with the one treated by him. They seem to have been fully as severe." P. 246. I persist, notwithstanding, in calling them slight, unquestionably slight, cases. For Grisolle not only says that the general symptoms were mild enough to satisfy him that he might leave them to themselves without danger, but he says that the inflammation was " of small extent'' in all of them. Why did you not notice this most essential particular 7 If you had, you could not have added that they were "fully as severe" as the case of mine to which you allude. That case is stated to have had the lung condensed " as high as the spine of the scapula," and from " the axilla all down the lateral aspect of the side"-about two-thirds, at least, of the whole lung. No small extent truly. In what other respects they were as severe, neither you nor I have any means of knowing. Grisolle himself, the only au. thority on the subject, says nothing of the frequency of the pulse, or of the respirations, of the state of the mental faculties, or of the state of quiet or restlessness -the very point on which, much more than on any local signs, an opinion of the severity of a case of pneumonia ought to rest. But you take it for granted that his cases had delirium-pulses above 120, respirations 48, and much rest. lessness night and day! All of these symptoms existed in my case, and must have existed in the eleven if they were as severe. No experienced physician can maintain that the mere fact of the disease having reached "the stage of red hepatization" is a proof that it was severe. A small extent of hepatization, and mild general symptoms, constitute slight cases of pneumonia if the disease can ever be slight. I mention these particulars only to show how strangely you depreciate what is Homoeopathic, and magnify beyond all warrantable compass what may seem to bolster up your hypothesis. 20 PROFESSOR HENDERSON'S which they are enriching their monographs and journals without once mentioning his name. While on this subject it may not be disagreeable to you to be informed of a few other particulars of the homage that is paid on the continent to the value of Hahnemann's contributions to the Materia Medica, and they will, doubtless, receive the more favour with you that they are not furnished by those who enrol themselves under his standard. The same Professor (Maly) observes, of the Helleborus Niger, after commending its use in dropsies of various kinds, and other diseases, that " Hahnemann's proving of the medicine upon those in health, will be found the best guide" to a knowledge of what it is capable of accomplishing. Of Pulsatilla he says, "The healing power of this medicine in rheumatic complaints, acute as well as chronic diseases of the eye, and the various affections complicated with derangement of the catamenia, &c., is taught in the experience collected to so large an amount in the Homceopathic writings." Another writer in an Allopathic journal for 1845, Dr. Popper, of Winterberg, eulogizes the use of Belladonna in inflammation of the throat, and acknowledges that he was indebted for his acquaintance with it to " the numerous indisputable testimonies of many intelligent and experienced Homceopathic physicians," and concludes in the following words:-" A more frequent employment of this medicine, in many diseases, is to be recommended to the use of impartial physicians; and the best source of information upon its virtues is the Materia Medica of Hahnemann, and the writings of liberal Homcmopathists." I give these as samples only of the general estimation in which Hahnemann is held by those who do not rank among his followers, who cannot be suspected of a spirit of partisanship, but possess honesty and information, and are not enslaved by prejudice. Similar testimonies might be easily multiplied, but I leave the consideration of those acknowledgments which have been made of the importance of Hahnemann's contributions to the details of the Materia Medica, in order to notice, what is more cheering still, because pregnant with the future recognition of all the.valuable parts of his system,-the acknowledgments of the excellence of some of his fundamental principles. At the Scientific Congress held at Strasburg in 1842, the Medical Section, with Professor Forget at its head, passed the following resolution:-"The Medical Section is unani LETTER TO DR. FORBES. 27 or combined-or as they varied in character and duration; he notes down all he can learn from his friends of the same kind, or gather from other credible authorities; and he numbers them separately to keep them distinct, though they are sometimes the same, sometimes but little different from one another, and so the list becomes long. In the same way, tedious and toilsome, he gathers a list of sufferings experienced, if any, in every region of the body, and he is very precise, and very anxious to be correct, all the symptomstheir diversities, and degrees, and shades of difference or of sameness-are classified and numbered: and the last number of the last shade turns up five hundred and.forty. He might have omitted some repetitions, and some trfling differences, and some trifling sensations-but he is precise, and he puts them down; he may have felt certain of them often before independently of medicine; at all events he feels them now, and their presence can do no harm. Many years after, a number of men, some twenty or so, anxious to prove this medicine over again, take dose after dose, on numerous separate occasions, and their experiments corroborate all the principal details of the original proving, and add some considerable items to the number. They, too, are healthy men, accustomed to no such aches and pains as they-experience while taking the physic; and they too, on the principles of common sense, refer their sufferings to the same cause, and in their simplicity never consider that " a thousand reasons can be adduced for supposing the contrary to be the fact!!" Two or three good reasons will satisfyý them entirely, I have no doubt, and when they are favoured with these, they will take to aconite afterwards as kindly as goats to milkthistle, or pigs to henbane! Besides these objections to the provings in general, you single out some substances as peculiarly liable to be considered utterly incompetent to produce any symptoms at all. Thus you say-" When we find the Homceopathist maintaining that substances utterly powerless in a state of sensible bulk, even in the greatest amount, acquire astonishing powers by mere subdivision, without any discoverable change in their physical or chemical properties,-can any proposition be submitted to human apprehension that seems more utterly impossible--more ludicrously absurd?"-P. 235. And you ridicule the idea that the decillionth of a grain of such substances (charcoal and carbonate of lime,) can produce any symptoms. But neither Hahnemann nor any one else ever affirmed that the decillionth of a grain of charcoal or car LETTER TO DR. FORBES. 29 minute division. The fact is believed, you perceive, by very high Allopathic authorities. The principle, therefore, of your objection is the reverse of an acknowledged one among scientific men-and the only difference between Allopathy and Homoeopathy on the subject is, that what Orfila and others assert of mercury, Hahnemann asserts of charcoal, carbonate of lime, and some other substances; and he has this advantage over those who impugn his opinions, that he has experimentally tested their truth, and his opponents have not! Of the same complexion with your statements on this subject.is the following:-" We hold the great alleged fact from which the doctrine took its rise to be no fact at all; or, at least, not to be a fact of that generality of manifestation which a theory said to be of universal applicability ought to rest upon. We deny, on the other hand, that many of the medicines said by Hahnemann to be capable of exciting artificial diseases in the healthy body, are really possessed of such powers. We instance, in proof of our assertion, the very medicine which gave rise to the idea of the doctrine in its author's mind-cinchona. We deny that it will produce ague, or any thing like ague, or any other form,of fever, in the majority of human beings; and so of a large proportion of the Homoeopathic remedies in common use."--P. -234. This extract is brimful of mistake, gratuitous assumption, and false inference. The "great alleged fact" on which you strangely imply that the doctrine rests, is, I may inform your readers, that Hahnemann, when trying on his own person the effects of cinchona, says he became affected with the symptoms of ague, a disease, as is well known, generally treated by that medicine. You might just as well say that the great fact on which the theory of mutual attraction, or gravitation, among the heavenly bodies, rests, is Newton's having witnessed an apple fall from a tree! That very small fact "gave rise" to the train of ideas in the philosopher's mind which issued in, the discovery of a great law; but I nowhere learn that it is made the basis of his doctrine. That basis is found in calculations and facts, which embraced an ample range of observation. The small fact suggested, and found its explanation in the general law, but would have made but a poor basis for so magnificent and comprehensive a theory. Just so with Hahnemann and cinchona. The effects of the drug suggested and found their explanation in the Homceopathic law, but are as innocent in being a basis as the fall of the redoubtable apple., The great fact on LETTER TO DR. FORBES. 33 treat such cases, is the implied interrogation? How would you? How would C the most experienced physicians?"' For my own part, I humbly confess, I should not know how to treat them. Homceopathy makes no claim to the power of resuscitation. But as you allow that the members of your side of the profession "continue to be almost as ignorant of the actual power of remedies in modifying, controlling, or removing diseases," p. 253, as they have been in all times past, and that the changes which follow their treatment are, "alas! as often for the worse as for the better," p. 258, it seems pretty clear that they must sometimes procure, or hasten, the fatal issue of the maladies they undertake to cure, an amount of potency which you do not grant to Homoeopathy, and which Homceopathists, to do them justice, are not ambitious of claiming;-as Allopathy, I say, appears thus to possess the power of killing, it is possible that it may aspire to make alive, were it only as a matter-of simple compensation. If such be the fact, Homceopathists give way at once, acknowledging the imperfection of their art in this particular, an imperfection which has reduced them to the necessity of consigning their dead to the treatrent of the undertaker. You next observe, "Every physician, for example, has met with cases of chronic pleurisy, with extensive effusion into the chest, which presented no. pectoral symptoms, and which were only detected by auscultation. How could the fitting remedy for such cases be selected on the principle of similia similibus?" This is a fair question, and the cases fair ones for practice, if you mean to bend so far to the imperfection I have acknowledged as to let us try our skill before death and dissection. In the first place, then, a Homoeopath, ignorant of auscultation and percussion, could not treat such cases at all, any more than an equally ignorant Allopath could. But Homeopaths study auscultation and percussion quite as much, and know them as well, as your Allopaths, whether of the old, or young, physic school; and as pleurisy is not always latent, but is commonly attended by pectoral symptoms, they have been able to determine what remedies are useful in the ordinary cases. When, therefore, extraordinary cases of the kind you mention occur, they still use the same remedies, and on the very rational supposition, that if they cured the pleurisy with the pectoral symptoms, they have a fair prospect of curing it without them. Analogy, it is true, suggests the means in such latent cases; but the similia similibus furnishe'd the initiative. At the 3 38 PROFESSOR HENDERSON S To my mind, if I viewed the subject from the same point as you do, it would appear a very suspicious circumstance if the original propounding of a system, so vast in its compass as Homceopathy, had been brought forth in a form so seemingly complete and perfect as to admit of no alteration in its theoretical principles and practical details; if, as the exposition of one man's opinions and precepts, however profound his genius, it had received the unqualified acquiescence of all his disciples; if its hypothesis had not met with opposition among them, and its practical rules had not been modified by their larger experience. The history of every great discovery in art and science, of every new announcement, that proved to be funidamentally true, would mock its pretensions and throw aj ust suspicion on its adherents, if Homcpopathy, after more than forty years' existence before the world, had remained exactly as it came from its author. On the other hand, I affirm that it is no small testimony to its truth, that in no particular of essential consequence to it, as a rule of practice, has the long period of its searching probation found it to be false, (for the whispers to the contrary are too contemptible to be thought of;) and that where it has been modified, it is in those very points where a large and varied experience would have been expected to modify it; and that there should be so general a concurrence, among the hundreds in almost all countries who have made it an experimental study, on the particulars in which it ought to be modified. As early as 1824, Dr. Rau, of Giessen, published both his high opinion of the Homceopathic treatment and his dissent from the extreme and hypothetical dogmata of Hahnemann, Since then, the moderate Homoeopathy, which employs the lower attenuations for the most part-the very lowest, and even the original or "mother" tinctures in some diseases, more especially the acute-which administers them at short intervals, even every hour in severe acute diseases-which discards the psoric theory and the potential hypothesiswhich contends for the practical importance of the knowledge afforded by the pathology of internal diseases, and for the value of the most careful diagnosis, has grown up, and is the almost universal Hommopathy of the present day. With all this the Homeopathic law, the similia similibus principle, the only fundamental principle of Homceopathy, remains the motto and the maxim of this, the true-the only possible " Young Physic." Now, what is "degrading ' in this Homeopathy? You 50 PROFESSOR HENDERSON'S Portal ascribed all hereditary diseases (and they include a pretty long catalogue of chronic ailments of all kinds) to scrofula; which, again, in all its multitudinous forms, Astruc, Lalouette, and others, (Portal himself among them,) conceived to be degenerated syphilis. Once more, and 1 have done with my apology for the psoric hypothesis. Psora is the most common of diseases, in all parts of the habitable globe. No age, sex, or condition can resist its pestilent infection; and back to a remote antiquity its attachment to the family of man is recorded with humiliating certainty. The poor it attends everywhere with the fidelity of a shadow, intrudes wherever men gather in numbers, from the workshop of the tailor to the tent of the soldier. Wherever a chronic disease can creep in, psora can lead or follow. And if it be argued that chronic diseases often afflict persons who never had the eruption of psora, it may be replied that no one can tell with certainty how long the infection, which is commonly betrayed by the eruption, may remain latent in the system. Biett admits that it may for months; Hahnemann thought that it might much longer, and even never cause an eruption at all. But all this is no proof of Hahnemann's hypothesis. It is not intended to be so;--if it be received as some extenuation of his error, my object is gained. He, in'common with Autenrieth and Sch6nlein, has failed to prove it, or even to make it very probable;--yet it is not utterly and absolutely absurd, whatever " the half-educated multitude" might think of it. The really important inquiry ihi reference to this hypothesis is, whether it affects the practice of Homceopathy, so as to involve in its overthrow the pretensions of the latter to success in the permanent cure of chronic diseases. That it does, is the drift of your jocose observations on the subject,-- that it does not, is the unquestionable inference, from a candid consideration of the "anti-psoric" treatment. All that is really of consequence in Hahnemann's instructions respecting that treatment is, that chronic diseases in general can be radically cured with certainty only when the remedies which are used for tlhe purpose are selected from among those which cure psora. I have no doubt that he regarded this circumstance as an additional proof of the accuracy of his psoric hypothesis, and if the circumstance be as he says it is, I should consider his inference from it by no means contemptible. That it is true, I do not believe, any further than this, that Hahnemann had some reason to conclude, from experi LETTER TO DR. FORBES. 57 or more, from a blind attachment to the notions they cherish, as from a deficiency of probability or proof in favour-of the doctrines they reject. Hard-headed scepticism of this, the ordinary quality, utterly unfits men for philosophical and scientific investigations on a subject to which they are opposed. If it be beset with sources of mistake, the biassed mind of the sceptic can see nothing but these; lays hold of them with avidity, and delights itself in the sapient conviction that, because there are some things fallacious in the subject of its hasty and partial study, there can be nothing that is true. If Jenner had started on his researches regarding vaccination with the antipathies of a hard-headed sceptic, wedded to a foregone conclusion, as all hard-headed sceptics are, his studies might easily have issued in a deliberate refutation of the popular supposition, in his neighbourhood, that cow-pox was a protection against small-pox; and the world might yet have wanted the blessing of his discovery. As it was, with all his determination to know the truth, he almost yielded before the sources of fallacy he had to encounter. How, speedily would a hard-headed sceptic,-whether an Ingenhouz, or a Rowley,-have closed his inquiries on the subject, when he had ascertained that the cow milkers often contracted sores on their hands in the course of their occupation, and were not, therefore, exempt from small-pox. What a clear proof that all the whispers to the contrary were old women's fables! What truly sceptical spirit could want more satisfactory evidence? But Jenner's head having been made of penetrable stuff,-not yet become indurated and sapless by the seasoning processes.of scepticism,-admitted the idea that, though the circumstances in question were undeniably true, they might not constitute the whole truth. He persevered in his researches, and obtained a glorious reward of his labour. Scepticism is much more a matter of feeling than of judgment; and there is ample reason for believing that the general scepticism of the profession regarding Homoeopathy is owing far more to a dislike of it than to any convictions of the understanding at variance with its pretensions. In almost utter.ignorance of its principles and practice, many, no doubt, like yourself, think the general adoption of it would be " very unfqrtunate for medicine," and therefore, hate it with all the sincerity of hard-headed scepticism, as the supposed enemy of their favourite " phantom." And yet it is this temper which men ridiculously mistako for the philosophic-for that which preserves the mind neutral in the investigation of cbn LETTER TO DR. FORBES. 59 would have been able to discover the rules by which one shift or another was selected, as thus:First,-That when cases recovered, promptly, from chronic diseases that had resisted the rules of orthodox treatment, continued down to the time when the Homceopathic was adopted, the results must be ascribed to the lucky cessation from orthodoxy. Second,-That when cases recovered, promptly, from chronic diseases that had not been under orthodox treatment for a long time before the commencement of the Homceopathic, the results must be ascribed to the power of imagination, or the accidental and spontaneous cessation of the diseases. Third,-That when the persons affected were too young to be the likely subjects of this power, the result must be ascribed only to the spontaneous cessation of their diseases. Referring your readers to the work itself for the particulars which you have withheld, I have no hesitation in affirming that no candid and experienced man can peruse the cases attentively and say, ith sincerity, that he has no doubt that the results are adequately accounted for under one or other of these three heads. This is the utmost that I expected the narration of the cases to accomplish; and this, I am satisfied, it is fitted to accomplish. I did not dare to hope that it would overcome the strong prejudices of the hard-headed, or silence the opposition of the feeble-minded and malignant. These are conquests which no record of cases can ever achieve. To those who do not belong to this corps of invincibles I would suggest the propriety of calculating the probability of the causes you assign for the recoveries under Homceopathy. In regard to one of these causes, the coincidence of recovery and the use of the Homoeopathic remedies, some approach to a mathematical estimate of probability may be obtained; as, for example, a disease having lasted, without improvement, for six, eight, twelve, twenty-four, or two hundred months, and having no ascertained natural limits, what are the chances of its ceasing of itself in one, two, four, or six weeks, after a certain dayl With every instance, in a given number of unselected cases, in which the amendment commences shortly after that day, (on which a particular practice has been commenced,) the probability lessens of its being due to chance; until, if nine-tenths of the cases do so amend and recover, no probability is left that chance can account for the results. As to the influence of imagination in produc 66 PROFESSOR HENDERSON 'S LETTERý ETC. come to know one another, and understand one another's views and methods`'better than they do at present-when the dusts of controversy have had time to settle and the atmosphere is clearer, they will find that they are not so very far asunder as they at present suppose. Yet we may have many a tough encounter before we "sheath our swords for lack of argument,"-a prospect which we Homoeopaths rather rejoice at. We claim nothing but a fair field and no favour; and are ready to fight it out, without a shadow of doubt as to the issue. The contest may be conducted as it becometh gentlemen to contend, without the rash imputation of unworthy motives -without appealing to the prejudices and passions of the ignorant-without wilful unfairness, and without discourtesy. 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