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by the use of hypertonic salines, glucose, incision, etc; and in 

 the case of open wounds, antibacterial substances should be 

 drawn into the focus by establishing an external flow of serum. 

 As many of the parasites as can be reached should be killed by 

 the use of dyes, etc. Often the successful reduction of the 

 edema at the beginning of an acute inflammation may by itself 

 so favor the normal defense mechanism that healing follows 

 promptly. 



THE summer vacation Wherry spent in Maine. He wrote 

 of his activities from Lincoln ville (August 25, 1928) : 



I wish you were here to go sketching with us. Unfortunately 

 the fogs roll in and spoil our game. Several of my daubs tickled 

 me for a while, until it was pointed out that the perspective 

 was conspicuous by its absence, and some other vital defects 

 stared the ordinary beholder in the face but went right by the 

 admiring eyes of its creator. Occasionally we see a four or five 

 masted schooner in full sail but these will soon be gone. They 

 burned up five of the pretty things in the Portsmouth harbor 

 last week. Penobscot Bay used to be a great centre for salmon 

 fishing but this industry is on its last legs for the salmon don't 

 like the big dam built just above Bangor. Where they used to 

 see billions of young salmon in the breeding grounds, one can 

 scarcely find any now. — Thanks for letting me see Chandler's 

 letter. He expresses what many of us feel. It is too bad that 

 universities never try the graceful thing while a person like 

 Miss McVea still lives. 



The reference was to Emilie Watts McVea. Born in, and 

 warm lover of the South, she had come from Knoxville at 

 Charles William Dabney's bidding to the deanship for women 

 in Cincinnati's university, to proceed after eight years of it to 

 the presidency of Sweet Briar college for women in Virginia, 

 until illness quenched her vital fires. 



As winter came, Wherry might not see the "daubs" he had 

 made, hung for show in Closson's gallery downtown. But he 

 could read about them from his bed. His heart had gone weak. 

 It was nothing, he said. He would rest now, and then ask for 

 a long overdue sabbatical year. With this thought still fresh 



