%(\ by deafness, shortly to emerge the medical director and hy- 

 gienist of the Pullman company) ; David John Davis (to 

 make universal the peripheral distribution of the typhoid 

 bacillus in typhus abdominalis and to become the professor of 

 pathology and bacteriology in Illinois's College of medicine) ; 

 Peter Bassoe (hesitant in speech but smooth in mental flow and 

 headed for a clinical professorship in nervous diseases in Rush) ; 

 Brown Pusey (gentleman in practice and scholar in thought, 

 even though the undertakers have stolen this phraseology, 

 headed for the professorship of ophthalmology in North- 

 western University's medical school) ; Howard T Ricketts 

 (inoculating himself with yeasts to prove their infectiousness, 

 discoverer of the mode of transmission of Rocky Mountain 

 spotted fever, and shortly to die of typhus in Mexico) ; Arthur 

 D Dunn (equally at home in German or French, impresario 

 of Voltaire, Flaubert, Anatole France and for his life-span 

 professor of medicine in Omaha's two medical schools) ; Noble 

 Wiley Jones ( also of college breed, first worker in the arsenic 

 intoxication hazards of western mining, the professor of medi- 

 cine ever afterwards in Oregon's school) ; Joseph C Ohlmacher 

 (farm lad out of Illinois, for sixteen years the director of an 

 Iowa state institution, then the pathologist, bacteriologist and 

 health chief of South Dakota and its medical school) ; Rollin 

 T Woody att (a son of Chicago, imaginative roamer in chem- 

 istry's empyrean, to become the professor of medicine in his 

 alma mater) ; F F Tucker (shortly chief medical missionary 

 in China's province of Shensi) ; Willoughby Hemingway 

 (ditto, but in the province of Shansi) ; and Alice Hamilton 

 (already the pathologist to Chicago's Woman's medical col- 

 lege and soon, America's strident voice against the slow poison- 

 ings of modern employment) ; also, myself. 



With the exception of Le Count and Weaver — who busied 

 themselves on a floor above the rest — these men (including 

 Hektoen) worked in a warren that was Rush Medical's 

 pathological "research" laboratory. The space comprised a re- 

 vamped janitor's flat — of which three rooms lay on a first floor 

 and two, in the basement. Of the three upper rooms Hektoen 

 had kept but one — the smallest — for himself. As to the equip- 

 ment, each of the older workers had a kitchen table upon 

 which to lay out his scientific belongings; the younger, half 



