"7 aboriginal women for a peseta [ten cents] but was unsuccess- 

 ful. Altogether it was a nice little vacation. 



We are getting settled in our new building and if the earth- 

 quakes let us alone, the quarters will be very favorable. Of 

 course, some of us think that the plans are not what they 

 should be, but that is always the case. Dr Freer is a great man 

 and if it were not for his influence, I am afraid that science 

 would fare sadly out here. He was badly burned the other day 

 by the explosion of a bottle of formic acid but he hustles about 

 the same as ever, hurrying up the workmen and seeing that we 

 get settled before he leaves for his vacation in the States. As 

 Musgrave says, "He's as full of ideas as a tick." — Last night 

 we tried the x-rays on O'Saya who had received about eighty 

 grains of quinine during the last few days. The x-rays alone 

 were a failure. I am sorry to say that she is getting quite blue 

 over our inability to cure her. She always says "my" for "I." 

 A lady missionary has been calling on her and giving her lec- 

 tures on things she cannot understand. The other day O'Saya 

 got tired of it and said: "My no guess Jesus gentle shepherd. 

 My want to make a die quick." I am afraid she will commit 

 suicide sooner or later, as so many of these patients do. If we 

 fail on the quinine and x-rays, we will let her go back to Japan, 

 for her relatives are getting tired of paying her hospital bills. 

 There really ought to be some place out here where such 

 patients could be cared for, free of charge. 



October 14, 1904, Wherry could report: 



. . . Forty-eight hours after our x-ray and quinine treat- 

 ment, the little girl developed a high temperature and pains 

 inside. Pleurisy set in and Dr McDill aspirated her left chest. 

 She is still peculiarly feverish but her temperature is not much 

 above 102° when up, and she appears quite well. What tickles 

 O'Saya is that about the time of the pleurisy, her chyluria dis- 

 appeared and so far has not returned. What I hope is that the 

 pleurisy was the result of the death and disintegration of the 

 adult parasites but I cannot tell yet, for the embryos are still 

 alive in her circulation. Dr McDill and I have been having a 

 fight over O'Saya's stay in the hospital with the authorities 

 and the secretary of the interior. I will let you know how we 

 come out. 



