208 stomach. The patient had gone to Dr Wanless of Miraj who 

 told him he had sprue! "He was sent up to Mohabaleshwar to 

 eat strawberries — nothing but strawberries! He immediately 

 began to recover and within six weeks returned north practi- 

 cally cured. I was reminded about what you said of American 

 doctors not being able to diagnose," father concluded. A 

 postscript said: 



Your account of your discoveries is very interesting. I want to 

 leave the Burbank books with you until we return home. But 

 there were 3 vols separate & marked as a gift to Woodstock 

 College. These I want sent here. 



IN October of 1916 Wherry submitted another paper [59] 

 to Hektoen {The adaptation of parasitic microorganisms 

 to a lowered oxygen tension) and promised him a second [60] 

 ( The influence of oxygen tension on morphologic variations in 

 B diphtheriae) . After accepting the first, Hektoen accepted 

 the second, sight unseen (January 9,1917) : "Thank you very 

 much for the article you are sending. We are always glad to 

 get articles from you. Naturally we desire the best." Besides 

 which compliment he penned another in his signature: "Most 

 cordially, your, L Hektoen." 



In the first of the above papers Wherry cited his former 

 efforts "tending to establish the generalization that many, if 

 not all, endoparasites become adapted to a tension of oxygen 

 below the atmospheric." Most of this (seven-page!) article 

 dealt with his experimental study of a streptococcus but a 

 precedent portion with the better growth of two animal forms 

 (a filaria and a herpetomonad) . Reduced oxygen pressure had 

 favored the growth of the filaria. "It may help to explain why 

 the embryos of Ankylostoma (hookworm) and Necator 

 thrive best in a sandy soil," Wherry said. The herpetomonads 

 had grown both aerobically and under partial tension, but 

 better under the latter circumstances. Their motility too, gen- 

 erally assumed to be an index of their vitality, appeared 

 greatest under those conditions of oxygen pressure most like 

 those under which they had been grown. These were expan- 

 sions of experiments made earlier [53]. 



