finds himself the only insurgent left among the older men." "7Q 

 H B Ward, Edward B Meigs and G L Kite (of whom more, 

 later) came in for warm praise. Of a man who had become one 

 of my critics, he wrote: 



He is really a very nice fellow, but my dear Boy, you may never 

 fear that he will someday flocculate your colloids. He has just 

 as much originality as a sulphur-crested cockatoo. But then, 

 that is what makes him such a nice fellow. I'm tired of these 

 damned original grumps who live in everlasting terror lest 

 some other damned original grump beat them to a hypothetical 

 explanation of a problem unexplainable. Here, for example, 

 they are still harping on the old idea that every type of germ- 

 plasm is of a specific kind & can only give rise in each instance 

 to a specific type of organism — and yet if they would but 

 reflect a bit they might recall the fact recognized by all lay- 

 men since earliest times, that the human ovum, at times and 

 in places, not infrequently gives rise to an ass. 



I had a devil of a time with my rabbits. They cost me about 

 $2.00 & you should have seen me going up 5th ave N Y with 

 the rabbit box! Now besides them, I had to take care of a 

 family of seven — 1 wife, 2 kids, 2 parti-colored rats and 2 

 white mice. Things would have been easier if I had given the 

 mice away and raised more kids. 



Medical registration, because of mounting requirements for 

 admission, had gone into a tail spin in Cincinnati. Wherry 

 commented: "Dabney is rather discouraged about students 

 for next year — thinks we may have 3 or 4 freshmen if we're 

 lucky. Well, goodbye." 



WHEN Wherry returned to Cincinnati for the 1913 

 medical school opening, his contribution to Forch- 

 heimer's five- volume Therapeusis of internal diseases awaited 

 him. Frederick Forchheimer had in 1908 hit the medical 

 writing bull's-eye with a one-volume text, Prophylaxis and 

 treatment of internal diseases. Physiologically trained and a 

 scholarly critic of his professional world, which in getting 

 increasingly right in diagnosis had gone increasingly wrong 

 in doing anything for the stricken, his single volume text came 



