enlarged and smears show a few bacilli; internal organs 1 ^ *X 



negative. 



Rat No. 2: Died April 28, 1910 [the last of Wherry's series] ; 



an ulcer the size of a dime directly between the sternum and 



pubis, at probable site of inoculation, infiltration around 



this lesion covers an area about the size of a twenty-five cent 



piece; large numbers of acid- fast bacilli in smears from this 



location; axillary and inguinal glands moderately enlarged, 



with smears showing the presence of a few acid- fast bacilli; 



no other lesions. 



To these scientific reports were added data on West coast 

 epidemiology that must have given Wherry some unexpressed, 

 warm feelings inside. February 28, 1910, McCoy wrote: 

 "Found a plague infected squirrel in San Luis Obispo county, 

 a few days ago. This county is just about half way between 

 Los Angeles and San Francisco and on the coast. ,, March 

 9, 191 he added: "We are getting a good many plague squir- 

 rels just outside of Berkeley now. They may represent the same 

 focus that you struck nearly a year ago, although some of 

 those that we have gotten have been found much nearer 

 Berkeley than those found by the men when you had charge 

 over there." And June 6, 1910, he said: "We are finding addi- 

 tional counties that are infested and goodness only knows 

 where it will end." 



WITH the spring, discussion of material available for 

 the newly wanted dean of Cincinnati's medical school 

 and for a "full-time" professor of anatomy grew more active. 

 Lyon had been proffered the former job; and refused. Now 

 Wherry proposed that Dudley Tait of San Francisco be con- 

 sidered for both posts. Anatomy in the medical schools, 

 Wherry believed, had gone too "scientific" and it was time 

 to give it a more "surgical" or "applied" twist. Tait had repu- 

 tation both in surgery and medical education; and would be 

 ideal. Dabney was convinced. When first broached on the 

 subject, Tait had, however, declined. Wherry wrote about this 

 and some other things, March 28, 1910: 



Judging from a telephone message I had from Dr Dabney 

 yesterday I suppose that Tait definitely refused. I am sorry. 



