1925-1930 



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THE ideas in bacteriology that were Wherry's gathered 

 unto him a long file of coworkers and "students." His 

 first scientific walks had brought Lyon, McDill, Clegg, Mus- 

 grave, Woolley, Spelman, Agnes Walker and Wellman to his 

 side. In Cincinnati he added O V Huffman (dean, later, of 

 the Long Island medical college and beloved practitioner of 

 internal medicine to his death, 1937). 1914 saw him convert 

 the medical student, B H Lamb, into a bacteriologically- 

 minded practitioner. N E Wayson's affection for him then came 

 to flower (assistant surgeon, U S P H S, he had just shown how 

 stable and house flies carry tularense) . At Woods Hole, 

 Wherry joined up with Kite as two mercury droplets coalesce. 

 In 1916 he inducted Wade W Oliver (Huffman's successor in 

 the Long Island college) into the ways of microorganismal 

 life; and in 1917 placed D M Ervin's name on the printed 

 page. Wherry's reputation was such that, in 1920, C T Butter- 

 field (U S P H S) was assigned to Cincinnati for collaboration. 

 Others who at one time or another in the twenty-seven years 

 of his residence in Cincinnati, dipped into Wherry's laboratory 

 to get the shove that oriented them for life, make too long a 

 list to cite. 



The close of the war returned George E Rockwell to his 

 tribe ( to enlarge upon Wherry's studies on the gaseous require- 

 ments of bacterial life, to write a common sense book on 

 Streptococcic blood-stream infections, to be of the first to 

 advise the oral administration of vaccine) . C F McKhann came 

 in (to join in Rockwell's studies and go pediatric) with J A 

 Bowen (the mucous membrane of the eye can be immunized 

 locally by proper vaccine against subsequent infection with 

 a live and disease-producing diphtheria bacillus) , Merlin L 

 Cooper (the respiratory mucous membrane can be immunized 

 ditto, against an otherwise fatal strain of the pneumococcus) , 

 John H Highberger (proper oxygen and carbon dioxide pres- 

 sures are necessary for best growth of molds and yeasts, too) , 



