Exhuming Michael Galler -- The significance of the small -- A house for Erasmus -- Fixing Alice -- The latent history of eclampsia -- The secret of Dr. Porritt's society -- A false sense of simplicity -- Responsibility in the court of the absurd -- The legend of Loch Katrine -- Building on the past --Appendix A : estimating the effects of lead water pipes on infant and fetal mortality -- Appendix B : a statistical supplement to The Menace and Geography of Eclampsia -- Appendix C : the correlates of lead solvency