Preparation , Tincture prepared by digesting 20 grains of powdered sponge, which has been roasted brown (in a manner similar to coffea tosta), with 400 drops of Alcohol. Authorities. ( 1 to 11 , from Hahnemann). [Two symptoms in Hahnemann's first edition, omitted from his second, are included in this work.] 1 , Hahnemann; 2 , F. Hahnemann; 3 , Gutmann; 4 , Hartmann; 5 , Haynel; 6 , Hornburg; 7 , Langhammer; 8 , Wagner; 9 , Wislicenus; 10 , Stapf; 11 , Lehmann; 12 , B. Fincke, M.D., Am. Hom. Rev., vol. i, 1859, p. 317, tasted some Spongia; 12 a , Mrs. Taube, aged about sixty, took 1 drop of 30th pot., prepared on the Hahnemannian scale; for many years a hard ball of pea-size; consisting of mucus mixed with blood, occasionally formed in the throat; this ball creates there an irritation, and is expelled by coughing; after use of fruit or cider usually feels a rawness and sensation like a wound in her throat, and loses her voice to a greater or less extent. In consequence of getting cold, she had many years ago a lump in left breast, cured homoeopathically long ago; 13 , James B. Bell, M.D., Am. Journ. of Hom. Mat. Mat., vol. ii, 1869, p. 211, a lady took 200th for a cough; 14 , E. W. Berridge, M.D., New Eng. Med. Gaz., vol. ix, 1874, p. 403, took 20 glob., cm. (Fincke), at 10 A.M., one symptom.