1 80 as new § os P e ^ t0 na ^ tne doctors of U S — the only group left 

 on earth after a holocaust of scientific "advance" with even 

 remnants of interest in treatment remaining. The success of 

 the volume had made its publishers cry for more, and this 

 five-volume text had been the answer. It had taken Forch- 

 heimer almost £.ve years to edit the work and the labor of it 

 killed him (tJune 1, 1913). 



His nose had ferreted out Wherry to assume responsibility 

 for a section on Tropical diseases — the commission referred 

 to as something to be held secret three years earlier. Not wish- 

 ing to do it all by himself, Wherry had suggested, and had had 

 added as coworkers, Woolley and Wellman. The three did a 

 fine job. These notes relating to Wherry's part are not in con- 

 sequence to be taken as criticism — other men in other chapters 

 might as readily have been taken for example; they are picked 

 upon merely as contrasting background for what was Wherry. 

 Publishers and editors write "blurbs" about their writers in 

 which they list their degrees, where they held job, cite in brief 

 their qualifications for the task in hand. It required five 

 printed lines to tell of Woolley's past; three to tell of Well- 

 man's; Wherry got a half. It said: "Associate Professor of 

 Bacteriology, University of Cincinnati." A later issue added: 

 "A B, D D," which silently pleased him; and gave him endless 

 amusement. 



He had been commissioned to cover as many pages as he 

 would. Paid for by the folio and needing the money, here was 

 opportunity. Altogether, the section devoted to tropical dis- 

 eases covered 209 pages. Wherry took 41. Standing in my 

 laboratory with the finished manuscript in his hand he an- 

 nounced: "This is all there is to be said on these subjects." 



I have stressed before how Wherry was never better than 

 when draughting the outlines of some "general" subject. He 

 had uncanny sense of where the simpler elements belonged 

 in the total architecture — even when he had baked the bricks 

 of a structure himself. It led to a lasting difference of opinion 

 between us regarding the growing rigidity of American med- 

 ical educational programs and the limitation of professional 

 class numbers. Wherry was in his own person the greatest 

 defense for my position that I could point to, as I insisted that 

 he should lecture to the five hundred instead of boil soup for 



