The HGH advocates responded with such minute doses of HGH that there were no side effects.
Very young children are especially vulnerable to just minute doses of chemical toxins and radioactive isotopes.
Accordingly, most homeopathists believed in the action of minute doses of medicine.
Since then, its identity has been increasingly linked to Botox, its branded delivery system for minute doses of a bacterial toxin that can paralyze muscles for several months.
"If we inhale minute doses of nerve gas for a few seconds, we shall be dead in a few minutes unless adequate treatment is afforded on the spot," he had warned.
He theorized that minute doses of a nerve poison used to weaken the muscles that pull crossed eyes inward could treat the malady, and he experimented with a variety of paralytic agents.
The treatment re-educated the hyperactive immune systems of allergy patients by giving them minute doses of peanut every day, gradually escalating the amount over the course of several years.
The first result of this shotgun marriage is a prototype that exploits methods used for etching silicon computer chips to fabricate small devices that can be implanted in the body, where they can deliver minute doses of drugs from hundreds of tiny wells in carefully measured quantities.
At the opposite end of the scale, at least in regard to dosage, was Samuel Hahnemann, of Leipzig, the originator of homeopathy, a system of treatment involving the administration of minute doses of drugs whose effects resemble the effects of the disease being treated.
The statement, released today by the Endocrine Society, also adds support to the somewhat controversial idea that even minute doses of these chemicals can interfere with the activity of natural hormones, which play a major role in regulating physiology and behavior.
