240 no ^ oss °^ muscu ^ ar power or tactile sensation; knee reflexes 

 exaggerated; very unsteady on standing with eyes closed. 

 Otherwise he has been getting along beautifully — his neck is 

 still small and the itching has almost disappeared. He still has 

 the profuse sweating. As I said, I am worried. I promised to 

 acquaint you with the above facts; otherwise I would not 

 have written, for I think you should shed the town com- 

 pletely for at least one summer. — With my best for all my 

 friends and my worst for all my enemies, I am . . . 

 P S I cut out the vaccine & iodine for a while and increased 

 the lemonade & Vichy. Is that the right thing to do, doctor? 



A further report was made July 16, 1923 : 



I had Baehr down to see Harkness. He says, transverse myelitis 

 at about the level of the 7th dorsal. The situation has not 

 grown worse in the past week excepting, as you might expect, 

 that his gait is even more spastic with some increased weakness 

 in the muscles of the lower legs. Baehr did not think the vac- 

 cine had anything to do with the new signs but I have cut 

 the dose down to % cc once a week & will then give him a 

 rest. I have written Baehr to remind him of the need for his 

 next visit. 



Wherry was busy these days treating all manner of disease, 

 supposedly incurable but perhaps infectious, with vaccines of 

 various kind. In this way he saw some twenty sick daily. 

 How they clung to Wherry! They had been jettisoned for the 

 most part by the more orthodox of the medical fraternity, 

 steadfaster in their adherence to the articles of faith of the 

 craft. So I saw the hopelessly ill weep when Wherry would 

 depart the city for a week-end. 



He published another paper ( four pages ! ) . While growing 

 the cause of lobar pneumonia "in tandem with other bacteria, 

 it was noted that it would not grow with a spore- forming 

 ammonia producer" [67]. Since, after administration, am- 

 monia is excreted through the lungs, Wherry "was inclined 

 to believe that in addition to the expectorant action of 

 ammonium compounds, they might exert an inhibitory action 

 on the pneumococcus," as well, thus to account further "for 

 the popular and apparently beneficial action of these salts in 

 colds and bronchitis." He performed many experiments to 



