]AQ TN late September (1910) mother wrote of the rather terri- 

 JL fying political situation in India; and added some statistics 

 on the health: "A teacher died of cholera at Edgehill, then a 

 nurse and several servants." Receipt of this information coin- 

 cided with that of a personal note from Wherry's adored co- 

 worker, J D Long, now assistant surgeon- general U S P H & 

 M H service in Washington. Cholera was a more generalized 

 world menace. Would Wherry be of his private list for call, 

 in case the sporadic cases that had passed the U S borders got 

 out of hand? "We want you as diagnostician for the central 

 portion of the U S in case of need." 



While standing thus ready for federal duty he was not idle 

 at home. Emil Blunden, physician, had removed seven Filaria 

 loa from his wife's eyes, beginning in 1907 when the two had 

 been stationed in Batanga of the Cameroon. Four of the speci- 

 mens had been excellently preserved by the doctor in chloral 

 hydrate and presented to Wherry. Drawings of the worm in 

 scientific catalogues had never been good and description of it, 

 confusing. In a ten-page article [33] (senior authorship be- 

 stowed upon O V Huffman) Wherry remedied these defects. 

 A bit later he described in an eleven-page paper [34] (senior 

 authorship assigned to Paul G Woolley) twenty-two "spon- 

 taneous" tumors discovered in wild rats. They had been 

 "found during the systematic examinations of rats captured 

 or killed in San Francisco during the campaign for the eradi- 

 cation of plague (1907—08)." Wherry expressed "regret" 

 that his report did not deal with the inoculability of the tumors 

 — explained by a "lack of energy" and the absence of "time for 

 experimentation" because of the demands of his routine. Two- 

 thirds of the tumors were of epithelial origin, one-third of 

 connective tissue; while the half were non-malignant and the 

 other half, malignant. Practically every organ had been struck 

 by the one or other kind. More interesting than his descrip- 

 tions were some side notes. Several of the sarcomas and one of 

 the epitheliomas, for example, existed in association with vari- 

 ous parasitic worms. In another group, the "metaplasia was 

 believed due to continued irritation of one sort or another. 

 ... It was difficult, however, to discover what the cause of 

 the irritation was. . . . There were microbic parasites pres- 



