148 fi ne man an< ^ a k*£ man an< ^ nas broad plans. He is keen on 

 teaching the preliminaries from a scientific standpoint. 



By the way, a couple of days after I arrived, Lyon [Elias 

 Potter, forty-two, physiologist to St Louis university medical 

 school, not an M D, but among the most, if not the most 

 potent voice in American medical educational reform] ap- 

 peared — this may be a secret so keep it. They are thinking of 

 him for dean. He looked things over but I don't know with 

 what result. Baehr [Edmund Michael, thirty-one, self-taught 

 collegian, the voice of Kraepelin, Freud and Sherrington in 

 Cincinnati] who now teaches physiology here, is an awfully 

 nice young fellow with a very level head but is in the practice 

 of medicine and I imagine no more of a physiologist than our 

 instructor was at Rush. I wish we could get a chair of medical 

 entomology established and have Wellman but I am going 

 to get a good line on things before broaching the subject. 



I could not find a fit place in Cinti at $30— $40 per, so 

 looked into Fort Thomas, Ky, and fell in love with it. Now 

 we have a beautifully situated, 7 room California bungalow 

 — a perfect dream — but it will cost $40 per. Everything is 

 as dear here as in California, so don't be deluded about the 

 cheapness of living east. 



Wherry did the work of his heart in the crumbling ruins 

 of Cincinnati's onetime glorious city hospital by the side of 

 the canal on Twelfth street. World travellers got it mixed in 

 their minds with Vienna's Allgemeines Krankenbaus, with a 

 storey added. Inside, both could boast the same courts, cock- 

 roaches and calluses. Undergraduate bacteriological teaching 

 lay a mile distant, in that "pippin" on the hill — McMicken's 

 original "college" from which had hatched the university of 

 Cincinnati. A "written quiz" here December first permitted 

 him free time for correspondence. He wanted direct news of 

 "Auntie Boyle" in California who had so often satisfied his 

 hunger for "cully-lice." Whereafter he continued: "To-night 

 we celebrate the merger of the medical colleges by a function. 

 If I can get into my dress suit, I'll go. Adios! The hour is up." 



The Christmas weeks were rather full. His second child, a 

 daughter, was born — and Marie had not been well. 



By January 1 3 , 1 9 1 he again had heart to take pen in hand. 



