cried: "I can see! I can see!" So the work seems very worth 221 

 while. Well, I am exhausted ! 



Official explanation of why he had not been reimbursed for 

 "expenses" came next day. A governmental chief wrote: "I 

 have been unable to obtain a copy of your appointment and 

 this is necessary in order that it may accompany your expense 

 account to Washington." 



How Wherry busied himself in Pikeville can perhaps be 

 found in the files of Washington. These facts leaked. He trans- 

 mitted trachoma from the eyelids of patients to those of 

 monkeys. He thought, too, that he had seen at least, the causa- 

 tive factor in the disease. The only evidence of it, however, 

 appeared in a letter to Marie, at the moment resident in 

 Cincinnati (August 13, 1918) : 



I have run across an interesting little bacillus which is present 

 in large numbers in the smears from the case of acute 

 trachoma. It is demonstrated with great difficulty, for like 

 tularense, it stains with about the same intensity as the back- 

 ground of the preparation. N/200 NaOH with a little 

 Loeffler's blue, or fuchsin, brings it out. You will laugh at my 

 excitement for you have seen it end in nothing so often. I made 

 smears from three chronic cases today and will see if I can find 

 the same bug. They came from a single family of twelve — all 

 of whom are infected. They are certainly a nervy lot. Frowney, 

 a girl of twelve, lay there and let Dr Raynor rub all her 

 granulations off without a whimper. 



Had a nice long letter from Mr Monroe yesterday. He wants 

 a surgeon for Detroit and I advised Symmes Oliver or Dudley 

 Palmer. 



I picked up a sore throat somewhere; hope not at Ashland 

 [where poliomyelitis was active] and that the children are all 

 right. Don't worry, it is not much and I will get it with per- 

 manganate. ... Be sure Billie is well before leaving for 

 Michigan; but you must go, and as soon as possible. Try 

 Empire and then look around. You always come out on top! 

 Thanks for the check for sixty dollars; will bank it for my 

 last two weeks expenses. 



By September, Wherry's responsibilities were calling him 

 back to Cincinnati. At least a fraction of the government ser- 



