to fall sick in God's own way? The daughter of Charles P Taft OA.C) 

 (Mrs William T Semple) volunteered to raise the necessary 

 funds but only if Marie would go along to "look after him." 

 Besides the Tafts and Semples, the two William Cooper 

 Procters, Mary Hanna and E W Edwards subscribed — to an 

 expedition that made for great advance in the treatment of 

 typhoids but one which Wherry slyly rated as good deal of a 

 junket. He had again done the typical thing, divided his gains 

 among some members newly added to his staff — Thomas J Le 

 Blanc ( thirty- three, writer, Rockefeller health evangelist and 

 now the associate professor of preventive medicine with 

 Wherry) , Lee Foshay (thirty-one, M D out of Pennsylvania, 

 clinician via Hoover and Cleveland, Ohio) , Robert Marrenner 

 Thomas (twenty- three, Cincinnati medico from California to 

 join Florence Rena Sabin later in New York) — and taken 

 them along to Mexico. I had arrived earlier in Cuernavaca. 

 There he wrote me when he reached the capital (July 14, 

 1927): 



We arrived in Vera Cruz two days ago after a splendid trip. 

 We spent Monday at Orizaba but the mountain was obscured 

 by clouds. Just got a glimpse of its base from the train next 

 day. We are all feeling the altitude and will have to take it 

 easy for a few days. [In the precedent summer he had 

 "packed" in Michigan and had stretched his heart, according 

 to Marie. ] I don't wish to boast but I have stood the change 

 better than most of the party. Dr Bermudez of the School of 

 hygiene has been most kind and to-day introduced us to Prof 

 Medellin who is in charge of the public health work of the 

 Republic. Next week we hope to get settled in one of the labo- 

 ratories and on the track of some cases. We will have to work 

 within 4 or 5 hours by train from Mexico City. The authori- 

 ties do not advise trying anything farther away [revolutionary 

 disturbances were on in the provinces]. 



Mariana had not died by July 31, 1927: 



We have been stamping about waiting for our freight to 

 arrive. They stuck us duty on everything including the cotton 

 the bottles were wrapped in — 84 + pesosl However we got the 

 box yesterday and I will be ready for cases next week. Dr Jose 

 Sozaya, a graduate of Harvard, is temporarily director of the 



