The ethics of mongrelism ... / a correspondence between Thomas Skinner and Robert E. Dudgeon.

  • Skinner, Thomas, 1825-1906.
Date:
1881
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Credit: The ethics of mongrelism ... / a correspondence between Thomas Skinner and Robert E. Dudgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be insetted in onr Journal; for, as an Editor, you must be aware that an article written in such a disparaging style respecting the author of a paper for which the Editors are responsible, would have had but little chance of admission into their pages. Your defence of the centesimality of )mur potencies will appear much more suitably, and quite as soon, in your own Journal. In our article we did not assert that your dilutions were not centesimal; we only said you had not proved them to be so by the test you applied to Fincke’s, but that should j'ou do so y'ou would be impaled on the horns of a dilemma, which you are pleased to sneer at as a “ brilliant syllogistic dnwiKment —whatever that may mean. This is the point of our observations on your potentizing experiments, and not whether your dilutions are centesimal or otherwise, a matter on which we gave no opinion. We gave you full credit for frankly confessing j’our changes of opinion and views, and only reproved the overbearing insolence with which you treated those who differed from you at earlier stages of your process. I return your letter by this post. Yours truly, (Signed) R. E. Dudgeon. Dr. Skinner to Dr. Dudgeon. Liverpool, 15th Feb., 1881. Dear Sir, I have just returned from seeing some patients at Bournemouth, to find your letter of the iith instant and my' MS. letter of ist February, which is certainly not the first that has been similarly treated, and it is nothing more than I expected,