cine and bacteriology." His former student, Alfred A Draper 270 

 (director, the Steffen biological laboratories, New York) " 

 wrote: 



. . . The myth has long existed that clinical laboratories 

 must be commercial. I hope that you gain a bit of satisfaction 

 from the assurance that the scientific seeds and the anti- 

 commercial ideas which you once put into my head took root. 

 I have studied the flora of over 3 500 stool specimens. . . . 



A veritable bale of letters came from patients and friends. 

 I excerpt this sample: 



You have been calling on my wife for two years. During all 

 that time you have brought help, advice and cheer to us, the 

 great value of which cannot be adequately appraised. We 

 have been disappointed because whenever a plan of partially 

 discharging our obligation to you has been broached, it has 

 been met with refusal. Please, Doctor Wherry, regard this as 

 a sacred pact justified on the grounds of benefit to a patient 

 attainable in no other way. 



WHERRY thought it necessary to unload. He began in 

 the summer of 1934 with another excursion into 

 Japan. Upon returning, he amputated the preventive medicine 

 half of his department to make Le Blanc its head. A member 

 for almost two decades, of Cincinnati's health board, he re- 

 signed. Its energetic and effective president (the virile son in 

 the 90's of the medical college of Ohio and its associate pro- 

 fessor of contagious diseases afterwards, Mifflin B Brady) 

 answered (January 4, 193 5) : 



At the meeting this morning attended by Doctor Muhlberg, 

 Mr Freiberg, Mr Johnson and Doctor Brady [the entire 

 membership] the following action was taken: You are 

 respectfully informed that there is only one place fitting for 

 your resignation, your own waste basket. 



Now came statement from H S Cumming, Surgeon-General 

 U S P H S, Washington (January 29, 193 5) : 



I have recommended to the Secretary of the Treasury your 

 appointment as a member of the National advisory health 



