2 60 sa ^ aman( ^ ers > bull frogs, mud-puppies, fish and carnivorous 

 birds — and as disease or death overtook it, medicine's best 

 minds stood by. The doctor, consultant, diagnostician, bacte- 

 riologist, pathologist and mortician to the gang was most 

 commonly Wherry himself. This time it was the death of a 

 parrot (June 20, 1929): 



The slides arrived and I concur with Dr Sanders's diagnosis — 

 one showed a very good section through the body of a mite 

 and a cross-section of two of the legs with muscle showing 

 plainly. The bird died of a pulmonary (bronchial) infestation 

 with a sarcoptid mite. I was sorry to hear of Ruby's death, 

 too. 



Ruby was the six-year old, $30,000 East Indian rhinoceros 

 of Cincinnati's zoo, dead of beri-beri. The animal had gone 

 paralytic some months earlier and Doctor Dock (Norton, 

 DVM, 2824 Vine street) long-time veterinarian to the park, 

 had asked me in. We had become colleagues in earlier days in 

 consultation over birds, when he had left this matter much in 

 my hands by saying: "You know my specialty is lions and 

 tigers." Wherry was a bit cruel in further comment: "It would 

 have been a great triumph if you had pulled her through. I 

 hope for your sake that the elephant does not sicken next." 



July 25, 1929, he wrote again: 



It takes time to get things going satisfactorily in new sur- 

 roundings but at last I am ready. I had hoped to get right at 

 treating more typhoids but owing to lack of interest on the 

 part of the assistant prof of medicine who handles the typhoid 

 pavilion, we have been delayed; now we have permission and 

 may get a series. — Manila is full of typhoid. Bacterial dysen- 

 tery ran high and at present we have quite a little dengue. I 

 cannot see much improvement in general health conditions. 

 They have spent $2,500,000 annually; but this was largely 

 consumed in organization & personnel and is scattered over 

 the usual public health activities which we have taught to be 

 essential. Soil pollution is widespread in Manila itself, yet 

 nothing constructive is being done to meet that situation. 



September 14, 1929, he reported to his assistant in bac- 

 teriology [the modest Craig Howard, of the best of his 

 departmental teachers] : 



