1918, Theodore J. Gramm, The Hahnemannian Monthly, Often he says they are used empirically upon the authority of some distinguished physician; mostly he denies that their action is homÅ“opathic; at times, by circumlocution, their action is explained in verbiage which the terse phrases of a homÅ“opathist would render quite unnecessary; and on some rare occasions, we are most devoutly thankful to say the homÅ“opathicity of their action is frankly conceded—but then our gratitude is shortâ€lived, for they hasten to inform us that this is only one of those accidental and casual occurrences in Nature which scientists tell us are impossible.