can afford it. I made some on the side, but most of the men 1 j"7 

 never paid up. We have plenty to live on at home, so don't get 

 out your handkerchief — only, I mean, I don't care to spend 

 half a hundred extra just now. — I have not found the cause 

 of pernicious anemia yet. The climate reminds me of Colombo. 



The newly headed departments that now comprised the two 

 first years in Cincinnati's renovated medical school got off to 

 a good start when the autumn semester opened. The chiefs had 

 shown good sense in leaving the personnel of their various 

 divisions untouched — no men in any of them had been dis- 

 missed, and where some had resigned, they had been brought 

 back. Thus the academic half of the school could now boast 

 some thirty men — Knower was forty and the old man of the 

 lot — at once young, friends, enthusiastic and medically san- 

 guine. Wherry was happy. He wrote of the situation to his 

 mother who replied: "It must be very nice indeed for so many 

 of you young fellow-student doctors to be working in the 

 same place." 



AS Wherry was thus seeing to a close his first year in Cin- 

 cinnati, more of what he had done in California came 

 into print. 



Poet that he was, he had asked early in the season why plague 

 as he knew it, was no longer as hemorrhagic as in the Middle 

 Ages, when men bled so that it was called the Black-death. 

 "The social misery of the fourteenth century was accom- 

 panied by the prevalence of scurvy, a disease which might well 

 contribute to the degree of hemorrhage which occurs in the 

 normal individual," he wrote. And so in a (six-page!) 

 paper [25] he told of guinea pigs made scurvic by bad feed- 

 ing, inoculated with nonkilling strains of plague, which 

 showed more blood than controls decently fed. That was the 

 answer to his scientific query; but in getting it Wherry had 

 recognized and drawn upon work little known then, forgotten 

 now — the important discoveries of Axtel Hoist and Theodor 

 Frolich who in trying to explain ship beri-beri and scurvy had 

 pointed out the horrors of all "one-sided" diets (the common 

 lot of man in the breakfast food period, and of the domesti- 

 cated animals throughout time) . Vitamines, cabbage and fat 



