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  DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY

JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SCHOOL

   BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.                                Dec. 9~ 1922.
    Dear Mrs. Denison,
             Do you mind a typewritten letter, writtdn by my

own hand as proved by many mistakes.  I find them easier than hand

written after my hand has gotton tired with long use of the

miorosoope.

I have gotten tremendously interested in the study if abnormal
blood, the methods which I have developed of studyltang normal
blood have raised questions that can only be setteled by stud$ing
the abnormal and the new man here in our clinical laboratory is a

wonder.   He is a Dr. Amos who has been trained fork several yeass

?t the Roskerfeller Institute.   During the war he trainod all the

doctors who went into the laboratory division who were to have
charge of the epidemics of menirqitis and things of that sort- He

came here last year to get back into the teaching fDooe and he

is simply splendid, in fact the real putting of our medical

department into the hands to two very fine full time men,

Dr Longcope and Dro Amos seem to me to have already justified the

idea that Dr.  Edall had of it.   They both welcome me over there and

give me every possible chance to study their cases-  Moreover they

have asked me to train a student Por them so that more work can be

done.  Next Monday, week, Dr. Cunningham, Mr. Doan and I are to

give our 7lor2 c:t a medical meeting and I think after that there

will be even more interest..  Our technician developed Valta
fever which comes from eating goats milk, in this case per'paps from

cheese o  Dr. Amos made a vaccine and finally I could show that
by the vaccine he had heightened the power of the white cells to
#J eat up foreign substanoes.  Nelct week v:e arc going to take

some of his ccl rs , add some  o f the germs of his own disease and ~66
how many the cells will take uP the bacteria*


  DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY

JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SCHOOL
   BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

     The Trust Fund makes a big ingression on my mind; when you
think that the original endowment of the IIopkins Medical So-2

was only a half of a million dollars and consider how the
wise expenditure of that money has 'affected medical education and
practice in this country it'makes one feel the responsibility of

the wise use of funds fDr education.  I fcought  tha t  I would wait

before naming a successor until I heard from you or perhaps until

we could talk it over next summer.  It is certainly a wonderful
memorial and I do so hope that it will bring forth really great

results.

    Last night I went to hear the French Socialist who has come
over to answer Clemenseau- c\ ', He made a real impression on my mind.

He said that with the data at hand, which was mainly the papers

from Germany and Russia,  let out thru their revolutions we were

for the time being justif'rhed in thinking Germany more to blame

than other countries for the war;  that the data :7&s not all at hand

because Z-gland, France and Italy had published only ?vhat they

chose of their diplomstio relations.   Eut that since Germany had

become democratic we had no right to lay up against tho present

government the faults of the precceding government and th?,t we

must 136%  act under the concept that delnOGrR%iG Germnay intended

to play fair.   I have been thi-:king more and more about the

Capital and Labor troubles and it seems to me that lots of the

ideas of labor are wrong but in this one thing they are right
that they question whether the imperialistic desires of the

advanced nations to capture all the n::tural resources of the
world for their own exclusive use are worth the cost, the cost

bbing  all that w<ar means to the humtn race, millions of dead

and billions of money.
       With love,