2"7q require three months of desensitization by direct inoculation 

 of detoxified vaccine. We are immunizing goats against six 

 other bacteria and if I can afford it, we will start two or three 

 horses this summer. 



Pottenger added to his enthusiastic acknowledgment : "You 

 are too good a man to be laid up by any infirmity.' ' Unable 

 because of his physical state to go on vacation this summer, 

 he was informed (July 20, 1932) : 



As per the minutes of Council of the City of Cincinnati, Vol- 

 ume 5 5, page 206, July 9, 1932: Mayor Wilson announced the 

 reappointment of Dr William B Wherry as a member of the 

 Board of Health for a term beginning August 2, 1932, and 

 ending August 1, 1942. Confirmed by the following vote. 

 Yeas — Messrs Druffel, Hall, Imbus, Patterson, Pollak, Rose, 

 Wilson, Woeste, Yeatman. 



That meant that confirmation was unanimous. Other docs 

 by other city councils had been thus complimented. But in 

 Wherry's instance, a bit more was involved. Cincinnati's 

 "small" council had done it — one intelligent, one free from 

 party prejudice — one that had brought to a half million 

 urbanites the designation, "best governed city in U S A." 



He wrote me August 2, 1932: 



I have had no attacks for three months and my tendency to a 

 disturbed splanchnic circulation has disappeared. Have gone 

 sketching several times as far as Moscow [Ohio] and Brook- 

 ville [Indiana] without getting exhausted. So much for the 

 case report. — It must be lovely in Florence. One gets dulled to 

 the beauty of our hills, and yet after one has been indoors for 

 several months he again sees the local loveliness. Bachmeyer 

 fixed up the stable behind the hospital garage for me and I 

 got two of the city work horses for $60 apiece, and expect 

 them daily. We will immunize one with B tularense and the 

 other with polyvalent strep. I hope by next winter to discover 

 whether or not our method yields desensitizing sera. If not, 

 we will try other schemes, for I am sure that such sera can be 

 produced for a variety of bacteria and that they will prove 

 curative as has our antitularensic serum. 



By the summer's end he ventured to visit his former chief, 

 Edwin Oakes Jordan, in Homewood, Illinois. Hektoen, ap- 



