1 Q Wherry's bulletin on glanders: "A paper pronounced in 

 Europe the best that has appeared on this subject." 



While other duties had so filled his Anaconda days that 

 writing was largely impossible, he nevertheless did get two 

 items into print. They were important as having to do with 

 the geographic distribution of disease. Under a single head- 

 ing [15] he told of a patient ill with amoebic dysentery who 

 had never been outside of Montana; and of another, harbor- 

 ing a chronic malaria. Opinion at the time believed the bowel 

 infection possible only in those who had come in contact with 

 the Orient; and the malarial patient had become infected of 

 the plasmodium in regions believed to be free of all the circum- 

 stances necessary for its transmission. 



Wherry's hours were now filled of three interests — there 

 was his official quest which had to do with what was killing 

 the farmers' domestic stock and charged by them to the fumes 

 emanating from Anaconda's smelter stacks; that really more 

 heart-warming interest which, as side line, was his bacterio- 

 logical-diagnosis laboratory; and, of course, that Spanish castle 

 upon which he had set his heart. May 18, 1906, he wrote to 

 Marie: "We will live in hope. There is no chance of my having 

 any money laid up by fall, but if this position is assured we 

 could risk getting married on the prospects." Under the other 

 heads he reported that the work on the horses "was going 

 along nicely" (he had isolated the Bacillus necrophorus from 

 a number of their nasal and laryngeal ulcers) and that his 

 diagnostic efforts were bearing fruit. May 19, 1906, he 

 detailed: 



. . . about this typhoid epidemic which broke out at the 

 school in Spokane. Quite a number of the boys died there, and 

 the rest were sent to their homes all over the West. Most of 

 these have since developed the disease. There are six cases here, 

 three under the care of Dr McKenzie, and I have made cul- 

 tures and found the typhoid bacillus in two. The master in 

 charge of the school asked me to examine and report on the 

 water of their well. He sent a sample last week. It was so sterile 

 that I refused to report. I believe the old rascal boiled it before 

 sending, but, of course, cannot say so, for one may not risk 

 accusing an individual who might be innocent. To-day we 



