been wasted, for she was not greatly helped 

 physically, but it seemed to me to have been 

 the most fruitful period of her life, for she 

 acquired in that short time with her brilliant 

 intellectual grasp an idea of the true spirit 

 of healing as it is known to the highest of the 

 medical profession, and she brought it home 

 to us and became our most helpful teacher. 

 She had learned the function of a great hos- 

 pital and she had seen how science and sym- 

 pathy could go hand in hand with progress, 

 and that, while she could not be cured, 

 she was given the blessed privilege by her 

 very sickness of lifting the load for countless 

 patients yet to come. 



It was a short step from this new point 

 of view to its application in her home town. 

 As a result of her sympathetic appreciation 

 of the needs of the medical profession she 

 was instrumental in having appointed the 

 first visiting staff of the James Walker Me- 

 morial Hospital. This single movement 

 would have justified an ordinary life, for the 

 results of it can never be reckoned because 

 of the never ending chain of good it is des- 

 tined to bring about in the years to come. 



The building now in process of construc- 

 tion on the grounds of the James Walker Me- 

 morial Hospital, a memorial to her little 

 daughter, will show in many of its details 

 something of her wonderful mind that could 

 apply its power even to hospital architecture. 



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