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• overwhelming compassion for all who suffered,
• ideal of a simple way to heal all disease
• he gained an insight and understanding of human nature which was to be the basis of all his future work.
• It seemed to him that this form of healing perhaps belonged more to the Church than to the medical profession, for Christ, the Great Healer, healed body, mind and soul; and he debated within himself which profession he should enter.
• it seemed to him, must for the moment lie where he had the opportunity to study many patients, thinking that only in the hospital wards and laboratories would he find out how truly to relieve the sufferings of those patients. He did not know then that the love of Nature which he was doing his best to stifle was, in the end, to guide him in his sear...