Chapin) a year earlier. It will be remembered what a headache 1 Q"7 

 McCoy had gotten out of his inability either to see or to grow 

 the cause of that plague-like disease so often referred to in his 

 correspondence with Wherry. By the use of coagulated egg- 

 yolk he had at last succeeded. Since the source of his infected 

 squirrel had been Tulare county, he immortalized that lovely 

 spot by calling the new organism, the Bacterium tularense. 



What do scientific men do in such circumstances ; and what 

 did Wherry do? With one stroke of his pen he passed all credit 

 for discovery to his old-time associate. 



Now another instance of human infection was brought to 

 Wherry's attention by Robert Sattler; and a third was to be 

 reported in the next year by the brother (Frederick W Lamb) 

 of his associate in these first studies (BH Lamb) . Some half 

 dozen more came upon the floors of his hospital to be recorded 

 only in the newspapers. An interesting variant was introduced 

 by some of the latter in that original infection had entered, 

 not through the eye but through a finger to spread to the 

 glands of the arm and arm pit, always accompanied by high 

 fever and invariably in men who had dissected rabbits. But 

 Wherry was no longer looking for examples but for the spring 

 of infection. "We have been anxious to find the source of 

 human infection in this locality," he wrote [48], His experi- 

 ments had shown that rodents deserved first consideration; 

 and Vail's patient had been a specialist on Hasenpfeffer. Now 

 came farmers' tales of death-dealing epidemics among the 

 rabbits. In November, 1914, such a story originated in south- 

 ern Indiana. Cincinnati's cooperative health officer (J H 

 Landis) sent two huntsmen into the district to bring back 

 what they could. They shot three rabbits and found two dead 

 on a farm some miles beyond Vevay. The latter were infected 

 of B tularense. Wherewith the story of human infestation with 

 "rabbit-fever," from its beginning to its end, had been told. 



Wherry did what he could "to help physicians in the dis- 

 covery of further cases in man." He would furnish the diag- 

 nostic brains if they would furnish the pus. "They may well 

 prove to be cases of this disease when there is a history of hav- 

 ing shot or handled rabbits, squirrels or ground-squirrels." 

 1914 closed with his presentation in concise and final form of 

 A new bacterial disease of rodents transmissible to man [49]. 



