r\A a better salary and that was important; yet what he did in the 

 matter was again the eternally Wherryesque. There would be 

 too much bookkeeping in the job and his scientific work would 

 suffer, he said; and, anyway, Woolley had tired of his patholo- 

 gist berth and craved this novelty. So he got it. 



W E Musgrave was moved into Woolley's place. This figure 

 had entered the Manila picture from the United States some 

 six months earlier. He had come out of George Washington 

 university with a medical degree only the year before but had 

 had long experience earlier as a technician in the old Hygienic 

 laboratory in Washington. In fact it was via the aid given him 

 by his medical superiors here, that he had been freed from his 

 routine and sent into medical school. At the time of his ap- 

 pointment to Manila, Musgrave was thirty-three, and unheard 

 of. His subsequent distinctions were to be many, but he used 

 to blame their start upon Wherry, whose "discovery" of Mus- 

 grave was to be publicized within the year though the story 

 of it is here delayed. At the moment the two with Woolley had 

 pooled their house-keeping interests and moved into a common 

 domicile. 



January 23, 1904, Wherry gave this account of himself: 



I refused the directorship of the serum institute at three thou- 

 sand last month, for all one's time is taken up with red tape in 

 such a position. . . . For several weeks I have done nothing 

 but work on my cholera cultures. 



A week later he added : 



I must thank you again for the Life of Pasteur. I have not read 

 the last chapter, for I wish to read the story over again before 

 I come to his death. I like to think of him as still living. 



Hektoen inspirited him with a letter (February 7, 1904) 

 not without historic interest in its reference to matters medical 

 in Chicago : 



. . . We hope you will like the Journal of Infectious Diseases; 

 also that the express bill for the reprints will not throw you 

 into involuntary insolvency. The second number is now under 

 way. We have in it an article by Rosenow (on pneumonia) 

 that I think you will find interesting. Articles from Manila 

 will always be acceptable, of course, and we hope that as you 



