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Of milestones and millstones

by Jerome Whitney

As progresses through the third century since its founding by , it is timely to reflect – not

Jerome became involved in homeopathy only on milestones that have been achieved as a student of Dr Thomas Maughan. He but also millstones that have hindered or remains continuously active in the promo- tion and education of homeopathy. His delayed progress. teaching and writings focus on the healing principles from which it has evolved, their When embarking on a journey it the increasingly conservative Hah- expression in the present, and ways to is essential to be clear about one’s bring scientific and practice advances into nemann. Organon 5-6 represent an being for the future. As well as being an current position so that there is increasingly flexible approach to ongoing participant in meditative provings, a solid platform from which to prescribing. Jerome is also currently creating and measure progress. In this article, The fourth edition may be viewed leading a home schooling course titled the focus is on five major homeo- as the point when Hahnemann ‘Explorations in conceptual thinking’. pathic innovators whose significant His enjoyment for hiking and biking introduced his most conservative continues when the sun shines. contributions we now take for rules concerning the practice of ho- granted. It also explores circum- meopathy (4th edition, para 242): stances that have shaped homeo- a) The dosage is to be the single pathy from 1810 to the present administration of a few poppy- and which serve as the foundation seed size pills. platform for its practice during its b) Repetition should be performed third century of existence. only when there is a relapse of symptoms. The Organon milestones However, within four years, writing During 1810 Samuel Hahnemann in the fifth edition, Hahnemann published the first of six editions of revised his previous emphatic the Organon that track an evolv- limitation regarding repetition and ing healing quest that was only advised the practitioner to formu- terminated by his death. Through- late the remedy in liquid form, an out those editions modification, approach that allows the practi- revision and change resulted from tioner to (5th edition, para 246): clarification due to experience-based a) Repeat the remedy during innovation. The outcome is that the improvement in order to six editions may be divided into the accelerate the time for cure. two categories of 1) increasing con- b) Tailor the repetition to the servatism followed by 2) increasing nature of the illness: frequent flexibility:Organon 1-4 represent for acutes; days or weeks for

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chronics. dog. He went on to initiate the philosopher , c) Provide for intercurrent potentisation of animal and human introduced a new structure into ho- remedies. substances, giving rise to nosodes, meopathic prescribing and layout By the end of the sixth edition sarcodes, isodes, and homeo- of the materia medica that has since Hahnemann even acknowledges prophylaxis. Although Hering was been termed ‘constitutional pre- that there are other ways than not alone in the subsequent advo- scribing’. Swedenborg had written dynamised remedies to stimulate cacy of these remedy substances the that there is nothing that exists in the vital force. extent and range of his contribu- any one of the spiritual, abstract, or tions established him as the leader material realms of life that does not Team Hahnemann and Hering: in the field. His contributions in also exist in some form in the other Our milestone ancestors: this area include: two realms. This observation may 1. Use of poisons & secretions such be termed the law of correspond- Kingdom sourced remedies as Lachesis ences. Kent, by engaging in lateral Hahnemann Hering 2. Nosodes: Medorrhinum, Syphili- thinking, reframed this concept Mineral & vegetable Animal & human num, Lyssinum into a working model which may 3. Isodes: Nosodes made from the be expressed as: there is nothing There are numerous locations patient’s own disease secretions that exists in any one of the mental, from which to ‘photograph’ the 4. Sarcodes: Normal secretions emotional, or physical states of a contributions of Hahnemann and from healthy glands, such as patient that does not correspond Hering. One of them that has yet Thyroidinum in some form with the other two to be emphasised is their interac- 5. : Variolinum states of their being. tive work as a team. The incred- for prevention of small pox This concept of ‘what is here is ibly fruitful collaboration between 6. Pre-Schüssler cell salt therapy: there’, as utilised by Kent, provided Hering and Hahnemann – from Hering suggests minerals may be the means whereby a homeopath 1830 to 1843 – was not based on lacking in diets. was now able to select a remedy by face-to-face interaction but rather 7. Preventative remedies: potentised isolating symptoms on two levels sailing ship mail delivery between seeds, insects, and animal organs and then checking them against the Paris and Philadelphia. Previously, to prevent or remove unwanted third level. In addition, the Kentian while studying at the University of pests. hierarchical approach of categoris- Leipzig, Hering had seen Hahne- ing symptoms from generals to mann and family walking on the The complementary milestone particulars supported much more promenade on Sundays but had contributions of Kent and Burnett profound prescribing for reaching never met him. While performing The final years of the 19th century into the inner levels of the being. his assignment for his university witnessed the simultaneous creative Ultimately, this advance was to mentor to disprove homeopathy, innovations of in make it possible for the competent Hering found that it worked. Dur- the USA and James Compton Bur- professional non-medically quali- ing 1821, homeopathic treatment nett in England. Both homeopaths fied homeopath of the late 20th and prevented the need for the amputa- introduced two uniquely different, 21st centuries to emerge. tion of his finger from sepsis. As a however equally valid, working result, he began to correspond with models of the interconnected nature Organopathic prescribing Hahnemann, a dialogue that lasted of humanness. Meanwhile, challenged to effec- until Hahnemann’s death in 1843. These working models, when tively treat the extreme morbidity Although copies of Hering’s half subsequently taken up by homeo- presented by many of the patients of the correspondence no longer ex- paths throughout the world, were that crowded into his surgery each ist, those of Hahnemann’s respons- to have profound and lasting effects day, Burnett drew on the organo- es are so vivid and thorough that on the evolution of methodology pathic teaching of Paracelsus. a reasonably clear feeling for their of practice right up to the present Organopathy, as it became known, friendship and creative interac- moment. had reached him via the recorded tion radiates from the texts. While 25 years of experience of Johann Hahnemann in the early years from Constitutional prescribing Rademacher, a medical contempo- 1810 to 1825 focused on intro- James Tyler Kent, drawing on the rary of Hahnemann. ducing remedies sourced from the writings of the scientist-spiritual Some patients presented mineral and vegetable kingdoms, with such morbid pathological Hering – responding to early edi- Constitutional prescribing Organopathic prescribing symptoms that it was not pos- tions of Chronic Disease – found James Tyler Kent James Compton Burnett sible to ‘see the unique person’ in in the USA in the UK the stimulus to prove Lachesis from amongst them. Burnett’s response Whole person Nosodes the bushmaster snake and, subse- Potency range Organopathy was to treat the organ that, at the quently, Lyssin, the saliva of a rabid time, was most dysfunctional. In

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In the not too distant future, homeopathy will be recognised as an application of the interdimensional

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many instances, Burnett found Kentian model became separated Even the most well- If the constitution is masked by that the remedy chosen treated from the Burnettian and both were balanced hammer is pathology then organopathy is a not only the affected organ but independently practised on an in- not capable of fixing possible alternative. everything that is was the simillimum for the whole creasing scale by separate segments not a nail person as well. of the homeopathic community. When a milestone is delayed by The rationale that Paracelsus had a millstone provided for this approach to bod- Organopathy The sixth edition of the Organon ily interconnectedness was based 1) Organs are not only a part of the did not see the light of day until it on the premise that: ‘what is here body as a whole but also have a was published in 1921. This meant is there’ is repeated in every organ unique character and function of that there was a gap of 88 years or whole subsystem of a person’s their own. between it and the 1833 publica- body. Another way of explaining 2) Either an excess or deficiency of tion of the fifth. It needs to be this working model is by view- a given organ results in disease stressed that the sixth edition is far ing each organ as having its own of the organism. more than a tweaked version of the character, function, and individual- 3) Many times, ‘organ remedies’ fifth edition in the tone and flex- ity; however, it is, simultaneously, cured the whole person by ibility of its revisions. an integral part of the body as a restoring the disturbed organ For example: whole and permeated with the to health. 1) The application of the flexible body’s unique essence. Today, we liquid potency methodology accept this concept with regard to previously outlined in the fifth the nature of DNA within the cells Homeopathic is significantly extended by the of every organ as containing the introduction of the wholly new blueprint for the body as a whole. 50 millesimal potency prescrib- This focused application of the treatment prevented ing system. The motivation fractal-like organopathic model for developing this method of the body by Burnett provided represents a continuation of homeopathy with an additional the need for the Hahnemann’s desire to reduce powerful tool and methodol- aggravation when prescribing ogy. Practised together, the lateral the simillimum. working model of Burnett and the amputation of 2) Repetition with ascending hierarchical working model of Kent potency until change is observed were to play a significant role in the is introduced. evolution of homeopathy during Hering’s finger 3) The term ‘Vital Force’ gives way the 20th century around the world, to the more frequent use of the particularly in India. However, par- term ‘Vital Principle’. ticularly in the USA and the UK, the from sepsis 4) Hahnemann concludes the sixth

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edition, in paragraphs 286-291, and variation to the practice of the ... her husband had repeatedly with the positive acknowledge- methodology as outlined by him required of her a solemn oath that all ment that the Vital Principle may in the Organon was to distort ho- copies of his works should be made be stimulated to achieve cure meopathy. Melanie, faithful to his under her supervision, ‘so that no with methodologies other than concerns along with her own, and malicious and deceptive alterations homeopathic remedies such as keeping in mind the progressive of the text’ could take place. As to mesmeric techniques, massage, flexibility of prescribing techniques the publication of the works, she and water-based therapies. of the fifth and sixth, was seriously was to wait until the rancour of his How then did this more flexible concerned that the document would contemporaries had subsided. oriented mode-of-practice docu- be misused by those unwilling to Haehl goes on to elaborate an on- ment become ‘buried’ during the carefully adhere to Hahnemann’s going series of promises by Melanie 78 years following Hahnemann’s precise directions. to loan him various manuscript death in 1843? Further, what Melanie’s reluctance to allow documents as well as the sixth significant implications was this the working manuscript of the edition; however, she reneged delay to have on homeopathic expanded and annotated fifth edi- repeatedly so that none were ever practice worldwide which remain tion to be published was based on forwarded. As early as 1856 Baron with us today? a number of excuses, including the von Bönninghausen, Hahnemann’s The answer to the first question fear of alteration of the text and friend and father of Melanie’s may be attributed to concerns meaning from that intended by adopted daughter’s husband, had raised by Hahnemann himself and Hahnemann. suggested publication of the sixth later his wife Melanie who became According to Haehl, in his 1922 edition but to no avail. Mean- holder of the document upon his biography of Hahnemann, Melanie while, over the years, Melanie held death. Over the years, Hahnemann replied to an enquirer in about negotiations with various American had demonstrated that innovation 1877 to the effect that ... homeopaths. At one point, she was

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asking for $50,000 which is the It is worth re-emphasising that The collaboration interpretation, understanding, and equivalent of $1,330,000 today. 88 years had passed since the pub- between practice, based on the fifth edition, Hahnemann and Despite the Americans’ efforts to lication of the fifth edition of the dramatically reshaping both the Hering was based obtain funds by subscription, the Organon in 1833. This meant that on sailing ship approach to homeopathic materia sums being asked for were never the fifth edition had become the mail delivery medica interpretation and reper- raised, even when Melanie’s son-in- entrenched bible of homeopathy tory symptom search. This had law Karl von Bönninghausen low- on a worldwide scale. In the mean- occurred at a time when alternative ered the asking price to $25,000 time, the monumental works and and homeopathy were ($650,000 dollars in contemporary influence of James Tyler Kent had declining disciplines in Europe and terms). The documents were to been introduced into homeopathic North America. In the face of these remain with the Bönninghausens factors, it is not surprising that until 1920, prior to their subse- the sixth edition, although avail- quent publication in 1921. able in the public domain, exerted The purchase by relatively small influence on the and James Ward of Hahnemann’s practice of homeopathy by most handwritten, annotated copy of 88 years had passed homeopaths. the fifth edition in 1920 for $1,000 ($10,700 dollars today) represented Dr John H Clarke, the ‘milestone the culmination of an almost 30- since the publication grandfather’ of professional year quest. They had contacted homeopathy Haehl in 1891 about the possibility Clarke is extremely important to of negotiating with the Bönning- of the fifth edition contemporary professional homeo- hausens the purchase of the manu- pathy which has evolved since the script. The result of their persistent later years of the 20th century. In efforts brought about the publica- of the Organon fact, he was the patron-supporter tion by Haehl of the sixth edition in of ‘lay homeopathy’, its antecedent, German in 1921, and the American until his death in 1931. It was his edition by Boericke in 1922. in 1833 untiring support of lay homeopaths

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and the writing of books to support their prescribing that aided British homeopathy to survive the declin- ing public interest in homeopathy that lasted from 1885 to 1960. At a time when few new homeopathic manuals and reference works were being published, Clarke champi- oned the study of homeopathy by non-medical homeopaths and provided them with resource mate- rial with which to carry on study in small highly motivated tutor groups. It was from the tutor group movement that contemporary pro- fessional homeopathy, the colleges of homeopathy, and the profession- al homeopathic registers emerged. Clarke was one of the early sup- porters of Kentian constitutional prescribing when it was introduced in England. At that time, it was considered to be non-Hahnemann- ian by many of the leading British homeopaths of the day. However, Clarke was in fact part of that mini minority of late 19th century homeopaths who adhered to Hah- nemannian principles while the vast majority of low potency homeo- paths considered it to be outdated Dines | Dreamstime © Andy and ‘pre-scientific’. He was also an important mem- Repertory, Therapeutics of Serpent Millstones have immediately declared support for ber of the most creative group of Poisons, Dictionary of Materia frequently ham- the methodology presented by pered homeopathy’s British homeopaths of the late 19th Medica, Hahnemann & Paracelsus, Dr Lewin. Such was the formal progress century which became known as Foundations of Materia Medica, introduction of Kentian constitu- the Cooper Club and also included The Life and Works of James tional prescribing into England, a Thomas Skinner, R.T. Cooper, and Compton Burnett, Constitutional prescribing methodology that later James Compton Burnett. It was Medicine, Homeopathy Explained, became a fundamental item in the this small group which was able to The Cure of Tumours by Medicine. homeopathic tool kit, worldwide. wield high and low potencies with Meanwhile, within a few years, such skill that they were able to When narrow focus on a mile- records show that doctors at the cure morbid conditions including stone serves also as a millstone Royal London Homeopathic Hos- tumours and cancer. Meanwhile the On the evening of 8 January 1903 pital were repertorising their cases majority, consisting of primarily Dr Octavia Lewin presented a and prescribing in the 30c potency. pathological homeopaths, were no paper to the British Homoeopathic Following the death of Burnett, better than the allopaths at treating Society entitled: ‘Cases Illustrat- Clarke became the primary practi- such conditions. ing Constitutional Treatment’. Dr tioner advocate for a balanced appli- A short list of Clarke’s contribu- Dudgeon, translator of many of cation of the Burnettian and Kentian tions to homeopathy include Editor the works of Hahnemann, was prescribing methodologies appropri- of the Homeopathic World for incensed and denounced this in- ate to the need and symptom picture many years; Promoter and support- novative Kentian prescribing model of the patient. However, there was er of ‘lay homeopathy’; Member with its high potencies as being a tendency for several of his more of the Cooper Club; Outspoken ‘non-Hahnemannian’. Dr John H prominent pupils to emphasise utili- anti-vivisectionist. He was a prolific Clarke, a close friend of the now sation of the Kentian constitutional author of homeopathic works that deceased Burnett, responded to the over that of the Burnettian organo- include The Prescriber, Radium innovative approach to prescrib- pathic approach, a direction that as an internal remedy, Clinical ing with great enthusiasm and was to have long-term implications.

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therapies in Europe, the UK, and Somehow the flexibility intro- USA began to receive increasing duced into the fifth and sixth edi- attention and the revival leading tions of the Organon was ignored to our current era was underway. and the classical movement focused On the other hand, there were few on a Kentian-based application to deeply experienced practitioners practice, drawing on the narrow in homeopathy at that time. Those conservatism of the fourth. few, such as , Even George Vithoulkas in a were predominately Kentian-Hah- 2004 interview indicated that it nemannian in their training, out- was now rare that one homeo- look, and practice and they became pathic remedy was the complete solution to a case. He spoke instead about the importance of prescrib- ing the right sequence of remedies – proceeding from one to the next, but definitely not polypharmacy. Note here the specific definition of polypharmacy Vithoulkas is using, From the early years which is two remedies to cover the primary condition. This is a distinct difference from a single deep-acting of the 20th century remedy accompanied by outer layer low potency support remedies as currently being prescribed by practi- until the 1960s, tioners of most persuasions! He said: There are some cases where you can practitioner numbers do wonders with one remedy. Some homeopaths believe there is one remedy, the constitutional remedy, continuously declined but there is no such thing. We are too sick with pollution, with antibiotics, It also needs to be recalled that, with interference, with vaccinations. from the early years of the 20th yearly via attrition All this has to be cleared up with very century until the 1960s, practition- careful prescribing. We have much er numbers continuously declined more complicated cases than Hahne- yearly via attrition through death. through death mann had to deal with. Accelerated by the adverse publicity Meanwhile it is important to of the 1910 Flexner report which acknowledge that small ‘c’ classical had as much impact in England as constitutional prescribing, based on in the USA, entrants into homeo- the fifth and sixth editions of the pathic education continuously Organon, is and will continue to be declined while its training institu- an important methodology in the tions progressively closed. In fact, a the inspirers of the 1980s ‘classical’ homeopathic tool kit. However, the study posted in the British Homeo- movement. ‘No non-classical’ tool kit needed is more than one pathic Journal, October 1962, con- Burnett for them! tool! After all, even the most well- sidered the period from the ‘1940s Given that the emerging homeo- balanced hammer is not capable of to 1960 as the terminal period’ for pathy training courses of the 1980s fixing everything that is not a nail. homeopathic education when in were being founded and led by As a movement ‘classical-Kentian’ 1961 ‘… the last elective course in deeply committed homeopaths homeopathy made a positive con- homeopathy offered to undergradu- lacking extensive experience, they tribution to homeopathic method- ates in medical schools in the USA adopted the Kentian classical ology by encouraging homeopaths was discontinued’. (See: A Motiva- methodology of prescribing as their to look beyond pathology. tional and Sociological analysis of primary practice tool. As a conse- At the same time, it is also im- Homoeopathic in the quence, throughout the 1980s and portant to remember that homeo- USA and UK, Vol LI No.4) 1990s most homeopathy colleges pathy is a multi-methodological However, by 1970 interest in taught variations of capital ‘C’ discipline, even as introduced homeopathy and complementary Classical homeopathy. and advocated by Hahnemann in

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the sixth edition of the Organon. since the 1950s, he had developed unique qualities or essence and in- Finally, the dominance of a ‘one size a unique model for classifying herited propensities which serve as fits all’ prescribing model held back disease states and a system for the basis for interaction with one’s the progress in multi-methodology treating them based on thousands outer environment. These in turn practice that has only been gradually of cases gained from his many years may lead to either curable, semi- overcome during the past 15 years. of experience. In 1972 he put his curable, or incurable disease. The Had Kent had the sixth edition approach to print in a book entitled following is an outline summary available to him, would the classical Treatise on Homoeopathic Medi- of the layers in Eizayaga’s model. movement ever have emerged? cine which was published in Span- When analysing a case, Eizayaga ish. In 1992 it was translated into focused on the symptom dishar- Eizayaga and the Layers English, following a very positive mony presented by the patient as milestone response to his lectures in North consisting of a series of concen- The word ‘layers’ has achieved com- America, England and Europe dur- tric ‘layers’, extending from the mon usage in homeopathy, particu- ing the 1980s. external consecutively inward and larly since the last years of the 20th described as the: century. This is due in large part to Eizayaga’s layers model the practice, writing, and teaching To appreciate Eizayaga’s system of Local / lesional layer: Outward patho- of Francisco Eizayaga. Eizayaga is prescribing with regard to layers, it logical / observable symptoms an Argentinean homeopath who is helpful to examine his working Fundamental layer: Mental-emotional achieved international recognition model of a human being. Eizayaga symptoms / physical generals and influence following the resur- viewed the human life cycle as mov- Morbid soil layer: Miasmatic: psoric, gence of homeopathy and alternative ing from potential and propensities tubercular, sycotic, syphillitic therapies during the late 20th century. to tangible expressions of health or Constitutional layer: The person / their Already a practising homeopath, disease. Thus a person is born with individuality.

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As the years have passed, there has of doctor homeopaths, and open There are many Among this group were been a growing utilisation of the meetings of the British Homeopath- milestones in the Phyllis Speight, Edwin Tompkins, concept of the ‘layers’ model by ho- ic Association. In turn, they held progression of John Damonte and Dr Thomas homeopathy meopaths throughout the UK. This homeopathy classes for interested Maughan. It is from the germinat- has aided them to more effectively members of the public. ing efforts of this group that the apply the range of methods avail- professional registers of homeo- able in the homeopathic tool kit pathy were to progressively emerge such as detox, bowel nosodes, to- following a series of progressive tality, constitutional, organopathic, attempts. physical generals, miasmatic . In 1946 a meeting of 300 people involved in homeopathy (including The milestone of professional those named above) met at Caxton homeopathy My primary aim has Hall, near Buckingham Palace, to Until World War One, homeo- form the Institute of Homeopathy, pathy had been practised primar- a non-doctor organisation. Twenty- ily by medically qualified doctors. been to take a fresh four years later on 10 January 1970 Meanwhile, encouraged by Clarke, Thomas Maughan, John Damonte, and later by Dr Donald Foubister Edwin Tompkins and others met as well as other doctor members of look and follow the and formed a Society of Homeo- the , ‘lay ho- paths. This organisation remained meopathy’ began to gradually grow active during the period of consul- in strength and numbers as the 20th evolution and role of tations prior to the 1971 revision century progressed. Before, during, of the Act. Their concern and following World War Two, the focused on the possible limitations primary active energy put to spread- the relationship of that the proposed act might have ing the knowledge of homeopathic on limiting homeopathic practice prescribing became centred on a and manufacture of remedies. small but dedicated circle of non- primary contributors Fortunately, the revised Act proved doctor homeopathic practitioners. benign in regard to homeopathy. These committed people engaged Permanent organisation had to in home study, attending lectures and events await 1978, when the students of

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the now deceased Maughan and area. As the 1960s progressed the Kent, and Burnett along with a Damonte gathered together to number of people regularly attend- study of ‘Subtle Anatomy’. This is found The . ing these classes began to increase. the science of the treatment of the This they achieved by updating By the early 1970s they had endocrine glands and the vital energy and revising Dr Maughan’s hand- attracted a highly committed centres that are associated with them. annotated copy of the earlier 1970 ongoing nucleus of students. Dr Their neuro-endocrine focus extended Articles of Association. As the UK Maughan’s group later became not only to prescribing on the outer profession grew in numbers so did known as the South London Group physical, emotional, and mental the founding of additional profes- and John Damonte’s as the North symptom picture of the patient but sional registering organisations in- London Group. Damonte, a radi- also the state of the vital energy field cluding the Homeopathic Medical onics practitioner and homeopath animating and surrounding the physi- Association (1985) and the Alliance with patients from many countries cal body. This they accomplished by of Registered Homeopaths (2001). was a long-time friend of Maughan, mapping the symptom picture of the Today these registers provide for who was also Chosen Chief of the endocrine system which is its biologi- the ongoing professional needs of Druid Order, and who likewise at- cal counterpart. Today neuro-endo- those who choose to join them. tracted patients by word of mouth crine topics have achieved an integral from around the world. role in the curriculum of a number The milestone of formal A major contribution that of colleges. homeopathic education Maughan and Damonte brought Following their ongoing partici- During World War Two and in the to their teaching of materia medica pation in the South London Group, years that followed, Dr Thomas included the integration of the Robert Davidson and Martin Miles Maughan and John Damonte held esoteric concepts and philoso- established the first educational homeopathy classes in various peo- phies of Hahnemann, Paracelsus, institution for professional homeo- ple’s homes in the Greater London Swedenborg, Rademacher, Hering, paths in the UK. During September

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