Hilda Wade

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Hilda Wade's gift was so unique so extraordinary that I must illustrate it I think before I attempt to describe it. But first let me say a word of explanation about the Master. I have never met anyone who impressed me so much with a sense of GREATNESS as Professor Sebastian. And this was not due to his scientific eminence alone: the man's strength and keenness struck me quite as forcibly as his vast attain-ments. When he first came to St. Nathaniel's Hospital an eager fiery-eyed physiologist well past the prime of life and began to preach with all the electric force of his vivid personality that the one thing on earth worth a young man's doing was to work in his laboratory attend his lectures study disease and be a scientific doctor dozens of us were infected by his contagious enthusiasm. He proclaimed the gospel of germs; and the germ of his own zeal flew abroad in the hospital: it ran through the wards as if it were typhoid fever. Within a few months half the students were converted from lukewarm observers of medical routine into flaming apostles of the new methods.