plagues killed men; and that leprosy withered human arms 1 QS 

 and legs. In Anaconda his sight did not dim. 



* 'There is a poor fellow in the room next to mine with ad- 

 vanced T B," he wrote (March 4, 1906) . "I must find out 

 to-morrow if I can do anything for him. It is awful to hear 

 him suffer and not know who he is or what he looks like." On 

 the day following, he added: "I saw him this morning. He 

 is a little old gentleman, with sallow face and deeply sunken 

 eyes. He worried me so much last night that I got up and 

 took a double dose of trional." And thus (April 13, 1906) 

 he reported of a second "case" concerned not at all with the 

 smelter business: 



I must tell you of my other sweetheart. How can a man stick 

 to only one when there are so many lovely girls in this world ! 

 Elsie Mary Besant of whom I told you before, had another 

 attack of chills and fever yesterday and now they come daily, 

 though when I wrote you three weeks ago they were distinctly 

 tertian in character. With the cessation of quinine they re- 

 turned and, lo! her poor erythrocytes are crammed with a 

 double or triple brood of the infernal parasites. One band 

 is in its infancy, another well matured, while some of the imps 

 of hell are segmented. A remarkable instance of double or 

 triple infection, latent since last September. Elsie is the 

 sweetest little four-year-old you ever saw; and the poor little 

 angel has whooping cough, too; but to-morrow I get after 

 the plasmodia. The hospital is neglecting the amoebic dysen- 

 tery case, too, so I am superintending his treatment myself. 

 He is so emaciated and wants so much to get well, and his wife 

 and little girl are so anxious, that I really feel conscience- 

 stricken at not having paid him more attention. Of course 

 he is not my patient but he will be hereafter! Just think, he 

 has had it for three years without treatment! 



A succession of letters (for the most part to Marie) 

 described his activities of a subsequent month: 



Easter Sunday 1906 — I had not thought of the day until yes- 

 terday. Just now I must to the laboratory. We filled little 

 Elsie with twelve grains of quinine hydrochloride yesterday 

 morning. This morning I found only one parasite [in her 

 blood] and think we succeeded in killing off one of the broods. 



