see whether we could tempt you to come to New York." "7 "7 

 Edwin O Jordan of the university of Chicago inquired (May 

 8, 1913) : "Would it be possible for you, and would you con- 

 sider it worth while to come here for the spring quarter of 

 1914?" May 30, 1913, he wrote further: "I shall not be able 

 to get more than $800 from the president for this, but there 

 is another fund I can tap for $200. Write me formal accep- 

 tance on the $800 basis and we can consider the matter 

 clinched." Now Wherry's Manila friend, John R McDill, 

 returned to Milwaukee for living and to Rush in Chicago for 

 teaching, wrote: "I need a man like you for the biological 

 part of it. Perhaps," he added, "we can get the U C to put 

 in a dept of trop medicine." But anything as needed, or good 

 and great as that, was, of course, never to be. This tropical 

 zephyr merely died in Chicago's windy corridors. 



McDill added in subsequent letters opinion and advice 

 which publicly or privately viewed are worthy of note. 

 November 16, 1913, he wrote: 



I wish you could see how some of the clinics are at present 

 conducted at Rush. One of the best surgical clinics that I ever 

 saw was given by Frank Billings ; another by Bertram Sippy. 

 An evening program supposed to be surgical was by Rosenow, 

 Billings and Mix. 



Whereafter he added : 



I am telling you this even tho you know about it, because I 

 want to point out to you the advantage of employing your 

 latent abilities as an internist — the advantage to the patient, 

 your laboratory, your enthusiasm and, incidentally, your 

 pocket-book. You may have been cultivating that side — I hope 

 you have — but if you have not, I advise you to affirm that you 

 are open to practical work when it promises to be worth while 

 to you scientifically. 



As a matter of fact, Wherry had been, was and was to 

 continue at just such program. With Woolley and Forch- 

 heimer, Saturday mornings were already given over to "patho- 

 logico-clinical conferences." As to insistence upon freedom to 

 do as he wished about any sick man who made appeal to him, 

 this was principle with Wherry that endured throughout his 

 life. Any narrowing of medical activity or mind, whether it 



