findings. Clinical histories had made me suspect that the dis- 281 

 ease develops thus, but I now have proof. These patients also 

 have the organism in the nasal mucous membrane before 

 definite skin lesions materialize. Early diagnosis will certainly 

 have to be made in many cases by neurological examination! 

 Here comes in the possibility of getting an intradermal test, 

 etc! — Plague is quiet. There seems to be some "endemic" 

 typhus. That's about all I know that might be of interest. 



Wherry now penned what was to be his last scientific paper 

 [82]. It was official report on how in undulant fever — Bru- 

 cellosis — a new antiserum, made via the vaccine injection of 

 "6 strains" of the organism into goats, had cut in two the 

 clinical manifestations of the affected. Human victims who 

 had suffered for months with recurrent, invaliding and pros- 

 trating fever had been rendered "afebrile in 9 days, asymp- 

 tomatic in 15, and able to resume occupation in 3 l /z weeks." 

 Even better, they had remained well "4 to 29 months." Here 

 again, and as final message, Wherry wrote: "We draw no 

 conclusions from this limited experience." 



Chronically lacking funds for his laboratory, he casually 

 mentioned his need to Maud Nippert (daughter of James N 

 Gamble). He wanted to enlarge his stock farm. She wrote 

 (June 14, 193 5): 



Sorry to have been so short and snappy last evening — but of 

 late, I say no first, and sometimes reconsider. In this case, just 

 because it is you, I do, and so am enclosing a check [it was for 

 a thousand] which I hope will help your pet hobby. Just what 

 that is, I do not know — but anyway, you might as well experi- 

 ment with it, as Uncle Sam. 



Cross section of what was being done with such moneys is 

 best revealed by a look at bacteriology's scientific library. In 

 five years he and his departmental workers had brought forth 

 more than forty communications. Besides those already named, 

 Robert Coulter Walker had studied quantitatively the effects 

 of dehydration of medium upon bacterial growth; Joseph T 

 Tamura had cultivated the "virus" of lymphogranuloma 

 inguinale (the sixth venereal disease) in visible form; Rock- 

 well and Herman C Van Kirk had contributed to the eternal 

 problem of the "common cold" by stressing the value of oral 



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