a new germ. I also heard it. Good boy! Keep it up and good A "7 

 luck to you!" 



Wherry's own letter of June 8, 1904, was franker than 

 usual in tone: 



Thank you for the abstract. I have not kept up with the litera- 

 ture on Ehrlich's theory. In fact, I don't believe it worth while. 

 If his theory should stand, which I don't believe, then I will 

 have to get down to work. — You will be surprised when I tell 

 you that I have dropped cholera. A good many of the guinea 

 pigs I was using had been immunized against cholera in Japan 

 and as it is like pulling teeth to get animals through my "direc- 

 tor" (and he has ruled that all animals shall be ordered thus) , 

 I decided to quit until we moved and our own animals were 

 old enough for use. — I have an interesting little Japanese girl 

 under observation, a case of Dr McDill. O'Saya has an infec- 

 tion of the bladder. I am trying to determine whether it is a 

 chyluria due to ordinary filariasis or not, and am inclined to 

 think that we have a new species in hand. The director is very 

 sore — no other word can express the feeling which he shows — 

 because Dr McDill did not see him about the patient in the first 

 place, and more sore because I did not hunt him up on his 

 return from Benguet and show him the parasite. He's such a 

 baby. Well, here I am talking about my superiors again! — 

 Woolley and I are working up some cases of contagious pem- 

 phigus, so you see we have our hands full. 



This reaction to his "superiors" was to exhibit itself as the 

 continuing irk of his life whenever men and things stood in the 

 way of the rapid accomplishment of what Wherry deemed the 

 day's labor. The "interesting little Japanese girl" was to 

 become the subject of two important scientific papers. The 

 conjunction of Woolley 's name with his own in the work on 

 contagious pemphigus (also to yield a scientific report) while 

 never realized was early example, nevertheless, of his eternal 

 generosity. It was Wherry's habit always to drag the name of 

 anyone standing about the laboratory upon the title page of 

 the scientific article he was producing at the time; except, of 

 course, in those instances in which he handed his "collabora- 

 tor" the whole business. 



June 14, 1904, he noted that he had so much work on hand 



