212 our ^ r * enc k W1 ^ nave to §° — tne slaughter is terrible. Much 

 love to Dr and Mrs Nast. 



The father made his acknowledgment later (February 21, 

 1917) for "Roosevelt Books on Travels in Africa and South 

 America (Brazil) ." He had "written to the Burbank Society 

 about the 9 missing volumes . . . subscribed for." Two pages 

 of detail about these and further instruction regarding their 

 care followed — a worry happily terminated in May by a letter 

 from mother, saying the three volumes for India had arrived. 

 Father inclosed a long "cutting on Kala-Azar" and added: "I 

 seem to be busy — Principal of Woodstock, President Ludhiana 

 Gen Com of Medical College, Manager Nur Afshdn, Supt 

 Christian Book Store & President & Chairman of a half dozen 

 Societies & Committees." Of other portions of the Wherrys 

 in India he said: "Lillie & Frank & Aunt Sarah are all busy 

 making Christians in the Kasur District." 



Though April made us part of the international conflagra- 

 tion, India, with three years of it, still allowed mother to write 

 (May 18, 1917): 



Things seem very quiet here and were it not for the soldiers 

 and the papers we would hardly know that war is going on 

 . . . John Ramditt who used to work with your father in his 

 Nur Afshdn office went off to Mesopotamia, is back on fur- 

 lough and will marry Ellen Istifan and then go off again, 

 perhaps forever. 



To which she added these remarks: 



You furnished Clara with some serum to cure her grippe, 

 didn't you? She escaped an attack this winter and gave your 

 serum the credit. It would be a fine thing if that trouble could 

 be prevented. We enjoy seeing your articles but your terms are 

 beyond me! 



It was not a serum but a vaccine — cultures of organisms 

 considered the cause of various pathological manifestations, 

 killed, and injected. He had for years past given such treat- 

 ment to the afflicted; and was to continue. Success at the 

 special moment had brought him an unlooked-for lot of "tes- 

 timonials." In the number of those who wrote stood Cincin- 

 nati's social foreground — Emerys, Tafts, Strietmanns, and a 

 bevy of doctors. They were "much better and without pain" 



