tion that one feels that he has found the right antigen. An 0~7^\ 

 additional test remains: the result of desensitization. When 

 recovery accompanies desensitization, one feels that a causal 

 relationship has been established. 



THE summer of 1931 took him to Maine. Here he painted; 

 and developed great enthusiasm for Jonas Lie on the 

 island of Mount Desert. But physically he was not well. He 

 reached home in time for the school opening. Coming to its 

 first faculty meeting, he was seized with great pain, turned 

 blue and slumped over in his chair. Three months in hospital 

 followed and another three in his home; then the gingerly 

 attempt to sit through an hour or two each day in his labora- 

 tory. From here he might direct his scientific colleagues, read 

 of the sense of fright his acute illness had given his friends, page 

 over the letters that brought him judgment of his medical 

 achievements. Topley of the London school of hygiene, Pin- 

 coffs of the University of Maryland hospital, Worden out of 

 Ravenna in Ohio, wrote in. Conscience overwhelmed his erst- 

 while student, Binzi Suyenaga, now in Nagasaki (March 9, 

 1932): 



Lately the memory that you wrote me once to send a leaf of 

 my photograph occasionally comes up to me, and I am taking 

 this opportunity to be in accord with your old requirement. 



The president of the American college of physicians invited 

 him to address his thousand in Montreal in the week of Febru- 

 ary 6, 1933. Francis M Pottenger, graduate of Cincinnati's 

 school of medicine, believed Wherry's "work on bacterial 

 allergy of tremendous importance to medicine." He answered 

 (June 13, 1932): 



I accept with pleasure. I presume it would be well to choose a 

 general title: The role of desensitization in recovery from 

 bacterial infections. — I have been laid off since last October 

 with angina pectoris but am about over it. We have gone 

 ahead trying to carry the desensitization work to its logical 

 conclusion — the production of desensitizing antisera. Dr Lee 

 Foshay's antitularensic serum works like a charm — producing 

 desensitization & recovery in a few days in cases that would 



