"7Q came through collegiate designation as "full-time" instructor 

 or as restriction in scientifically applied labor for the ill — 

 every mounting "requirement" or formulation of "standard" 

 in "teaching" — was anathema. Free souls, freely thinking and 

 working as they pleased were his ideal, from medical student 

 to dying doctor. His scientific labors might correctly enough 

 have led to increased revenue (it was "moral" and he needed the 

 money) yet such never came to him. This was because all who 

 knocked might enter — their diseases were the same, weren't 

 they? — and those without funds always constituted the ma- 

 jority of his "practice." His ill were those that the medical 

 world had rejected, for which it believed nothing more could 

 be done — a lot of cancers, paralyses and the generally maimed 

 in joints or muscles or nerves. With them came another non- 

 paying clientele, esoteric in its demand for the best — doctors 

 or missionaries. 



Still speaking into the blue of the marginal medicine of the 

 moment, McDill wrote: 



We were enormously impressed by Rosenow's work on sec- 

 ondary bone, muscle and joint infections. Simply monu- 

 mental! And only a few days ago he cultivated an organism 

 from a human stomach ulcer, and reproduced the ulcer in a 

 dog by injection of the organism into its general blood stream! 

 . . . Two of the surgeons up from your city got a little 

 excited at the prospect of losing you. Let them guess; it will 

 do no harm. 



The summer of 1913 again took Wherry to Woods Hole. 

 He answered a letter of mine, enthusiastic about the Cana- 

 dians, as follows (July 21, 1913): 



Have been trying to convince you for several years that the 

 English are the real cream of the earth's population, i e the top 

 scum. I can now bend my energies toward converting you 

 along other lines e g that every cell is surrounded by a true 

 semipermeable membrane. The only reason why you can't see 

 "how in the devil the cell can then live," is, because you don't 

 know, nor does anyone else know, what a semipermeable mem- 

 brane is! Yet they teach the students here, all about it. You 

 ought to visit us; it would do you good. 



Opinion on some of his coworkers followed: "A P Mathews 



