"nemesis" <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> No. To make a homeopathic remedy, you dilute something that causes the
>> symptoms. So to make a cure for poison ivy, you dilute something that
>> irritates your skin. The idea being (I think) that your body naturally
>> fights off the very dilute stuff and in so doing cures the poison ivy, 
>> too.
>>
>> So dilute penicillin causes infections.
>
> Sounds highly counterintuitive.

Dilute penicillin . . . causes your body to develop an immunity to 
penicillin?
*shrug*

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Tim Cook
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