^ 9 f° r a couple of weeks. Then, Dr Freer is ill. Mr Clegg, another 

 of our men, was ill. The hospital staff are nearly all laid out 

 with something. So you may be sure that those of us who 

 were born to be shot, hanged or drowned have plenty to do. 

 This interferes seriously with research, but to tell you the 

 truth I rather like it, for one feels as if his labours were not 

 altogether lost — as they are when research is without results. 

 I am beginning to think that I must be fitted for a tropical 

 life. One continually sees interesting fevers and pathological 

 conditions of which no one seems to have definite knowledge. 

 Soon, we are to start a Journal here. The Manila Medical Soc'y 

 is sponsor. It will probably be entitled "The Journal of Trop- 

 ical Medicine and Allied Sciences." The delay is now great 

 when one wishes to publish anything. — The mail leaves to- 

 morrow. I hope that you have decided not to study during 

 the summer. It will be much nicer to dance, fish, row and 

 swim — for Martin once told me that you were a famous swim- 

 mer. I helped disinfect a ship on the bay the other day ( Sun- 

 day!) and the water looked so inviting. If it hadn't been for 

 the numerous stinging jelly fish and a couple of sharks, I would 

 certainly have fallen overboard accidentally, on purpose. 



He continued this recital May 25, 1903 : 



I am growing weary of "expecting' ' the Sumner (already 

 overdue 10 days). There are a thousand sacks of mail due 

 and if they have all gone to the bottom I am going to do some 

 swearing. It seems an age since I received one of your cheery 

 letters. — Dr. Woolley is at Baguio, Benguet — at the north of 

 Luzon — where they have a temperate climate. It seems hardly 

 possible that there should be such a place in the Islands. We 

 expect him back next week. I will be glad to see him for I 

 am tired of this bachelor life. Then, we need him at the lab- 

 oratory where there is too much to do. I have had to lay aside 

 most of my own work and am now up to the ears in water, 

 soda, and lemonade analyses — not to mention the regular rou- 

 tine and post mortem work. Dr McCoy, of the Marine Hos- 

 pital Service, who is staying at 183 San Sebastian, is much 

 interested in pathology and as he is a good clinician we fre- 

 quently go out in the afternoons to San Lazaro Hospital to 

 look over the plague, cholera and smallpox patients. Last week 



