wood or a loaf of bread or a simple note of 

 encouragement. In her latter months, when 

 her failing strength kept her on her bed, she 

 turned to wonderful use her splendid skill at 

 note-writing, and there are many of these evi- 

 dences of her love that are now treasured 

 possession of the recipients. 



When the need of a hospital for suffering 

 women and helpless little ones was mentioned 

 to her she immediately with her larger vision 

 saw a chance to help not only these sufferers 

 directly, but the whole community indirectly. 

 She saw that the greater function of a hospital 

 was as an educational institution, and she knew 

 that if she could direct the efforts of all in- 

 terested in the way of creating a place of in- 

 struction for the medical profession, the whole 

 community would share the blessing of a 

 greater efficiency. She knew, too, that a 

 teaching hospital not only does more for 

 the sufferer, but in turn the sufferer becomes 

 a benefit to the whole community. She knew 

 that her own case had proven of value to 

 patients yet unborn because it had been studied 

 in Johns Hopkins Hospital and the records 

 carefully preserved. She had felt the contact 

 with Dr. Osier's ideals in medicine enough 

 to know that the patient rather than being 

 experimented with to his torture or distress 

 was being doubly benefited by the more 

 searching investigation. Her weeks in the 

 Baltimore hospital might be thought to have 



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