1 QZi work and personnel of the laboratory increasing, more space 

 was deemed necessary. Wherry reported his quest for it 

 (April 4, 1906): 



"Busy" might well have been written over the laboratory to- 

 day. . . . Mr Mathewson wanted me to ask for another room 

 at the hospital as we are getting crowded. I did it as nicely 

 as possible for me, but the sweet old Mother Superior grew as 

 sour as a sour apple and told me we couldn't have it. Then 

 she recounted the worry and trouble I had brought her. 

 "Why," she said, "we haven't been able to hang the clothes 

 in the back yard since you commenced the animal house." 

 This, after I went to the trouble of having heating pipes and 

 a register put in her chicken house! 



On April 11, 1906, he recited Theobald Smith's own 

 story of his great and first discovery of the transmission of an 

 infectious disease by an intermediate carrier : 



Dr Smith told me that he worked for three years on the trans- 

 mission of Texas fever by ticks, for it was so strange and 

 unheard-of a thing that he had to convince himself over and 

 over again before publishing the fact. And then no one be- 

 lieved him or paid any attention to the fact for five years! 

 Think what a field in our present day notions of the transmis- 

 sion of the infectious diseases that opened up! 



To this he added: "Dr Smith was feeling ill yesterday and J 

 prescribed for him. Trustful man! He took the medicine 

 and says to-day he is feeling well enough to go out to-morrow." 



AT different moments in his life, many different labels 

 were affixed to Wherry. Often referred to as a "medi- 

 cal scientist," he was more often called an "epidemiologist" 

 or a "public health worker." Such men seem cold, because 

 numbers and statistics too frequently displace in their memo- 

 ries, family and given names. Wherefore, the item is of inter- 

 est that Wherry never thus lost a story because of the pagina- 

 tion. In part it was family tradition — he was the son of a 

 minister; and the churchly fathers of the nineteenth century 

 preached no gospel more clearly than that Christian service 

 meant service to human beings. From the first he knew that 



