Even before the week was out he had reverted to a love of 

 his medical student days and planned "to carry on some ex- 

 periments with opsonins." The circumstances of his new- 

 found job brought back his silent laughter and he penned: 



By the way, I have been thinking that you ought not to pub- 

 lish your new book without a fitting dedication. I do not 

 wish you to strain your brain over the subject but how would 

 this do? — 



To that habit of continually falling into Debt, and 



To that Custom of Borrowing which has kept me in a 

 state of perpetual penury, and thus furnished a 

 most potent Stimulus to a Naturally Lazy Dispo- 

 sition, and 



To Those Kind Friends who have loaned to me in my 

 extremity, and especially 



To Her who has helped me spend the Money. 

 But, without joking, this is not bad: 



To ransom Truth . . . rally the scattered Causes; 



and that line which Nature twists . . . untwine. 

 This is sacrilegious perversion by excerption which would 

 make Sir Thos turn over in his grave. . . . And, by the way, 

 I will not need to borrow the money now. In fact, if you 

 happen to get stuck and don't ask me, I'll feel hurt. I have 

 not been paid yet but feel sure that I will be. 



By January 17, 1906, he could say that he had "finished up 

 the list of supplies for the laboratory" and that "it came to 

 $788.00." He continued: "I expect it will reach fifteen 

 hundred but the Copper Company makes more than that each 

 minute, I think." On January 18, 1906, he wrote of a side 

 line into which he was being pushed: 



There are many nice people in this town of about ten thou- 

 sand. The climate and altitude ought to make the place 

 healthful but, of course, the population is subject to most of 

 the ordinary ailments. They had epidemic typhoid last fall. 

 There were two deaths from diphtheria day before yesterday 

 and some even contract tuberculosis here. The place needs 

 a bacteriological laboratory. The deaths from diphtheria, a 

 mother and baby, were inexcusable and the manager of the 



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