00a because, he said, it "helped him to scuttle the ship." Still, these 

 vagrant activities were not altogether unsatisfying, for they 

 narcotized a mind rather distraught by the war. November 

 brought peace, but even so matters continued disorganized. 

 He stepped through a winter in which the mere meeting of 

 the day's demands was sufficient. When spring broke, the 

 Detroit college of medicine and surgery made new effort to 

 capture him. W H MacCraken wrote (April 9, 1919) : 



You have been fortunate in escaping the trials of the past year 

 — the Students' army training corps, financial problems, the 

 maintaining of a fairly efficient teaching staff, the influenza 

 epidemic. 



It was complete description of what Wherry had not 

 escaped. MacCraken asked, would he reconsider his refusal? 

 If so, MacCraken was willing "formally to resign so that 

 Wherry would not be put in the position of seeming to displace 

 him." 



This matter hardly disposed of, a second appeal came in. I 

 was asked in July to bring the post of pathologist in the Saint 

 Francis hospital in San Francisco to Wherry's attention. As 

 "private" institution it had long existed as excellent example 

 of private and individual care for the individual patient; thus 

 withstanding the huzzas for "public" institutions which saw 

 progress only in publicity, thorough regimentation of every- 

 thing from an assignment of numbers to the patients to 

 approved causes for their deaths, and in "organization" and an 

 appeal to charity for half their cash. A hundred doctors owned 

 this hospital, ran it at the decent figure of a first-rate hotel, 

 kept the private lives of their exclusively private patients, 

 private; and brought to their aid the best of an anti-"social- 

 ized" medical or surgical skill. James J Hogan (who in 1910 

 had recognized that blood remains in the blood vessels because 

 a hydrophilic colloid and had introduced, in lieu of a donor, 

 the use of protein — gelatine — injection mixtures, to see his 

 principles of treatment in shock taken over in 1915 by Sir 

 William M Bayliss and a gum arabic mixture) had quit the 

 post of laboratory chief. The hospital staff (to which any 

 state-licensed physician was welcome) knowing its value, 

 wished it filled by the best available candidate; and would pay 



