This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881. Excerpt: ... troversy, and has fallen into error, I trust more from incapacity than design. If I knew exactly the expense of a first-class funeral in your city, and if such a pageant were not beyond my means, 1 should go to London and get up one, in which the writer of Triturations would enact the role of the corpse. Some folks are "beautiful in death;" he would be, and I was ever a lover of the beautiful. This paulo-post corpse says, the practical question raised by Wesselhoeft was "the behaviour of the metals under the homoeopathic triturations." I submit that this is merely an addendum, into the assumption of which Dr. W., was forced during the developement of the controversy. In his first paper he eliminated all metal at a certain trituration; he declared ex cathedra the impossibility of the presence of any metal in a certain, and not remote, trituration. From that position he has since been dislodged, To be sure, he has himself acknowledged his error; but even in so doing he tacitly corroborates the soundness of my first criticism, which, I may add, was inadequate microscopy. My own position from the very first has been that the real "practical question," namely, the non-presence of the metal in a certain trituration, is, ex necessitate rei, beyond the power of the microscope to decide. Of the four investigators mentioned in the paper on Triturations, I alone have held this from the first; and, now that others are trenching upon the same territory, I must assert the rights of "squatter sovereignty " and resist any attempt to "jump the claim." You see, I haven't much "gumption," and a knowledge of the fact makes me very tenacious of the little that is mine. Moreover, the author of the paper on Triturations says that none of the "very interesting facts " which I ha...