2 "7 ft himself. There were Rockwell, Dorst, Foshay and O'Neil, he 

 said, just to mention his majors. Of them he reported: "One 

 accomplishes here in a few days by passive desensitization that 

 which can be brought about only by several months of active 

 immunization." He ended as he always did when sitting as 

 judge upon his own accomplishments: 



The hypothesis I presented, when carried to its logical con- 

 clusion is not clear in all its details but it has directed our 

 experimental work and has brought forth results. 



In March Wherry went to Seattle with Marie and Margaret 

 to see her off to Yokohama, to marry James Gordon Ziegler 

 (chief in the offices of the American express company at 

 Yokohama) . Three months later the senior pair used the 

 summer months to visit the juniors there. As to interest in 

 medicine, he had little. Upon return to Cincinnati he con- 

 gratulated the third of his masters, Theobald Smith (now 

 seventy- four) upon the receipt of another long overdue 

 medal. A beautifully handwritten answer out of Princeton, 

 N J, said (December 19, 1933): 



I was much pleased to hear from you. It is now a quarter 

 century since we parted on the grounds of the Anaconda 

 company. I travel little as it does not agree with me, hence 

 my anticipations of reaching Cincinnati someday have not 

 come true. Science is moving so fast in many directions both 

 + and - that I feel lost, and wonder why medals should come 

 this way at this stage. — I trust that you are feeling well 

 enough to take care of yourself and that your work is still 

 not a burden. 



No doubt because he was aging (sixty-eight), Jordan was 

 about to be presented with the inevitable portrait. Wherry 

 was too ill to respond at once to the invitation to subscribe. 

 These words appeared upon his envelope: "1/29/34 wrote 

 that I would send a check in a few days — 2/2/34 sent check." 



Commendation of his work increased. Albert P Krueger 

 (first to prepare vaccine by grinding the organisms to death) 

 thought Wherry's "thesis to have many points of application 

 and to explain many clinical phenomena." Roger S Greene 

 (director of Peiping Union medical college) was bringing his 

 writings "to the special attention of his departments of medi- 



