Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-27

pSG udS uOt SepdrhGGu hQuSrenG paTLlCleS SuI- fciently to distinctly see what he was looking at they are consequently drawn by guess. Eight months spent by two such be-puffed microscopists making these few ''sketches"' Why, an unpracticed hand should complete them in two weeks.
 In some of these fancy drawings Dr. Gut. ter has given us rough, coarse sketchos of the hexagonal cells of the starch granules, and points them out as the oblong gluten cells. Ignorance is bad enough, but what right has he to call other people ''fraudu- lent"? In another page he gives drawing he says photographed-of some entire wheat flour, without single starch granule or glu- ten cell there is absolutely nothing but some inner bran coat and some hairs. If he had acknowledged that this was hand drawing with the starch purposely left out-but pho tographed! Photography does not yet do imagination work!
 In another -photographed--h he gives us a view of some gluten cells from the oat, lnagnifed 500 diameters, and to prove that they are from the oat he finds in the material grain of oat with the surrounding husk he gives us drawings of these, the grain whole and the husk (magnified 500 diameters), and they are, when thus magnifed two inches in length. An cat grain is certainly one eighth of an inch in length, and generally one fourth inch or more If this is magnifed 500 times Il. AS represented by F Cutter, it is two inches photographed
 At any time when he is at a loss to define what he sees, or rather what he draws, he desgnaSes it as '.ill-defned dark, granular masses, resembling gluten, though such an opinion is not warranted ;'' that is he thinks he sees something his skill does not warrant him in saying what it is he does not want it to be gluten, therefore, though it resembles O1 1na acyT1n i,, the same breath What a scientific teacher :.
 Even in the last two (photographed!) draw lngs of Bermuda arrow root and potato-starch it is difficult to distinguish which is which novice who views these grains with the mi croscope for the first time can most readily distinguish them, but Dr. Cutters sketches are nebule to an expert
 He speaks of many of these cereal foods as the spurious, the worthless, the fraudu- lent, i" and he has had the assurance to de- nounce, from his most imperfect microscopic examinations alone, without any other test, articles that have long been before the pro- fession, and have received the indorsement and approval of both chemical and therapeu- tic Investigators.
 He says 'The microscope is an infallible detecter of fraudulent claims.' A tyro in science knows that the microscope is but one of the many means of detecting compound
 
 IS sought to be isolated from a compound mixture, the microscope can tell but part ot the truth minute, scrutinizing chemical, and often mechanical, Investigations are also needed, and, with our imperfect skill, with all these means put together we are very often unable to arrive at any positive conclusion. It IS only the arrogance of ignorance that l accomplishes impossibilities
 The assumption made by Dr. Cutter is m hSt +hair tr1tlve value to the gluten they contain and that all other portions of the grains are of little value-that with the microscope he can ''infallibly detect" the amount of gluten present in any sample of such powdered sub- stance. Let us see how far facts will bear him out in these assertions.
 It is proved, beyond dispute that the whole grain of wheat, excepting the outer bran, is necessary for our perfect nutrition ; that, if the starch of the grain is washed away, the grain ceases to be fully nutritious 1t IS robbed of it's fat forming and heat-giv- ing properties, and 1t Is as much starvation to be robbed of that nutritive portion as to be deprived of the muscle forming proper ties One may live longer on gluten than on starch, but with either alone starvation en- sues.
 In Fig. I he says that three-quarters of the gluten is removed in making flour; under his microscope not single whole gluten cell is visible, and yet, when four, which he thus condemns, and of which the microscope is Ian infallible detecter," is washed under flowing water, and the starch cells are washed away, there is a large tenacious mass left behind, which other people call gluten. The starch manufacturers make starch from flour, and they have had great trouble to dispose of their refuse gluten And yet these Hours under the microscope do not show unbroken gluten cells. MiIlers in grinding wheat leave but little of the gluten adherent to the inner bran coat. It is ground so fine that the cells are ruptured and are not visible as unbroken gluten cells under the microscopes and yet Dr. Gutter calls some manufacturers of cereal foods fraudu- lent, because he cannot find large unbroken gluten cells. Many of the foods which he mentions are cooked, others partially cooked, all ground very fine and sifted. How could unbroken gluten cells exist under such cir cumste nces?
 We wish particularly to refer to Fig. Is ---Crosby's Brain and Nerve Food, Vitalized Phosphites" He says there is in the speci obscuring the underlying starch, so large in some specimens as to occupy the whole field:" in other words, his manipulation has been so awkward that he has been unable to separate the mass for examination. Any one even ordinarily skilled in microscopy would separate the underlying masses" so that everything could be distinctly examined "Obscured underlying masses" do not amount to microscopic eAanlina.ion; such masses if obscured, can readily be made distinctly visi- ble and to call such masses underlying starch" is to guess at a conclusion, not see it.
 He says, again: "B-ill defined, dark granular mass, resembling gluten, though such an opinion is not warranted" If, un- der the microscope, mass is i'll defined, it is the province of the microscopist to so dissect it that it may become well defded; if ill de- fined, how he can he give description of it? Only by guess. thing that is imper- fecty seen can hardly be described by one who is truthful. In science we want facts, not i'll defined" conjectures. That this was a mere guess in this instance is proved by resembling gluten, though such an opinion is not warranted" In other worlds he had made up his mind to find fault and therefore no seeming goodness conld be granted by him.
 He next says: 'D-apparently cooked animal substance; there arc no characteris- tic gluten cells, no nerve fiber, no axis-cylin- der fiber, no ganglion, nor multlpolar cell" Had he read the mphlet-directed to the profession accompanying every package of Vltallzed Phosphites, he would have seen that there is no claim that the whole brain of the OK enters into the composition of this
 
 phite, extracted from the brain, that exists in it's composition, and the whole formula is given in the pamphlet which he was too self sufficient to study. When all OK brain is treated with boiling alcohol, and the alcohol filtered, how could there exist nerve fbers' or ''ganglion cells," and in cooked animal substance who, but he, could expect to find characteristic gluten cells ?" The article he abuses is called Vitalized Phosphites, because it contains the phosphoid clements as they exist in the brain of the OK and the germ of the wheat. It is not stated, on any line of the pamphlet, that the whole brain of the OK is mingled with the substance and if, in eight months, with the material and full analysis before him, and @ pamphlet giving the com position, he is so averse to study that he re- fuses to peruse it. of what value to any one are his Investigations :?
 He has not studied the formula which is on every bottle, or he would not class this