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WHEN Sir James Crichton-Browne, amongst whose many charms is a singular felicity of phraseology, invited me to undertake this task, he kindly supplied the title. It sounded rather startling, but as I could not think of a better, I humbly accepted it. It shows that I have no great discovery to announce, no new theory to propound, but only to take you back over old, well-trodden ground, to try to interest you in very technical matters, and to suggest that, in this particular case, reaction has overstepped the bounds of moderation, and that, as in many other fields, the most modern ideas are not always the best.
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Back to Lister 1 . Nature 95, 160–166 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095160a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/095160a0