BUT even as Freer was thus manifesting in his own person qQ 

 the benefit of sound college training — the ability "to 

 know the first-rate man when he saw him" (to quote William 

 James) — Wherry was at identical business. "The most inter- 

 esting and valuable article of the year will be by Dr Mus- 

 grave," he had written to Hektoen and Miss Nast. To the 

 latter he had divulged: "By the way, I found filar ia last night 

 in the blood of my little Japanese girl. I was glad to find them 

 but I am awfully sorry for her, for it increases the gravity of 

 the prognosis. Poor little O'Saya! If I can only locate the adult 

 worms, maybe Dr McDill can help her by an operation." 

 August 4, 1904, he wrote: 



I am still interested in my filariasis case and last Saturday 

 stayed up all night and took blood specimens every two hours 

 in order to estimate the relative number of filaria present dur- 

 ing the day and night. (Of course, this has all been done before 

 but I wanted to see for myself. ) It is a case of filaria nocturna. 

 We are trying to stop the hematochyluria with rest, diet and 

 suprarenin but, so far, without much success. — Manila would 

 be an unbearable place to me if there were not so many inter- 

 esting diseases here. Since coming I have seen dengue, plague, 

 cholera, beri-beri, leprosy, glanders, filariasis, trypanosomiasis, 

 malaria, yaws, amoebic and bacillary dysentery, a number of 

 skin diseases and various animal parasites. Of course, I don't 

 know much about some of these states but I have had autop- 

 sies on many and have worked up some of them bacteriologi- 

 cally and pathologically. However, as Jimmie McFadden says : 

 "What's the use?" All this can lead to is a professorship some- 

 place, where it is colder than ice. But Dr Freer, who has taken 

 an interest in my work, says that I may come back here and 

 that he will see to it that I have a better position than the one 

 I now occupy. 



This letter makes casual mention of another capacity in 

 medicine of which Wherry had supreme command — that of 

 macroscopic and microscopic autopsy. September 1, 1904, he 

 wrote as follows regarding his filariasis patient, another of the 

 day's experiences shortly to find its way into print : 



I have been very busy following up my cases. Little O'Saya is 

 in fine physical condition but we have not yet succeeded in 



