2 received a very nice letter asking for our results which would 

 be published in the Spokane papers and a copy sent to the 

 parents of each boy. I may be mistaken but I think I am on 

 to the old fellow. 



Wherry's point of view in general matters of medicine had 

 not left unaffected either the men of his Company or the 

 doctors of the place who had come in contact with him. 

 One of these, frequently referred to in superlatives by Wherry 

 (Thomas J McKenzie, 39, into medicine and politics out of 

 Kentucky) , was the mayor of the town. Together they cooked 

 up a series of ordinances aimed at the report, control and 

 eradication of various communicable diseases. The science of 

 these laws had been dictated by Wherry; their enactment via 

 the city's council by McKenzie. May 21, 1906, Wherry re- 

 ported: "Hold your thumbs, for this is an eventful night. The 

 diphtheria proposition is up." Two days later: "the ordinance 

 was passed by the city council last night." On the same day 

 the first "sore throat" came to the laboratory (which, interest- 

 ingly enough proved to be, in Wherry's hands, not an antici- 

 pated diphtheria but an instance of Vincent's spirillar angina) . 

 By May 26 "the docs were falling right in line," and "ten 

 throat cultures to-day" had been received. May 30, 1906, 

 Wherry sent Marie a sheaf of newspaper clippings with the 

 words: "It's awfully late but I cannot sleep. I am inclosing a 

 copy of the ordinance itself. It may interest you to see what 

 a formidable thing it is in its legal form." 



Anaconda's population, however, did not lose sight of the 

 fact that behind these newly established public health laws 

 there was operative a private mind and worker. Wherefore 

 Wherry found himself visited in the next weeks by commit- 

 tees, family groups and individuals to threaten him with bodily 

 harm if he did not lay off them. As June drew to a close he 

 apologized again for unchristian behavior to Marie: 



Busted the Sabbath again. Can't help it, for it will be nip and 

 tuck as to whether we can get ready for the trial by September. 

 Sweet and I will have to work nights in August. — As you 

 suggested, the sections of some of the nasal ulcers have given 

 us the clue which fits in with Dr Moore's hypothesis. Deep in, 

 are vegetable pieces, in all probability the barbed awns of 



