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QUARTIER LATIN
Quartier latin. A student’s room in
the Hôtel de l’Avenir, piles of books
everywhere, on tables, chairs and in heaps on the
floor, and on the wall a faded photograph of
Capri. Mornings in the wards of La Salpêtrière,
Hôtel-Dieu and La Pitié, going from bed to bed
to read chapter after chapter in the book of
human suffering, written with blood and tears.
Afternoons in the dissecting rooms and
amphitheatres of l’École de Médecine or in the
laboratories of the Institut Pasteur, watching in the
microscope with wondrous eyes the mystery of
the unseen world, the infinitely small beings,
arbiters of the life and death of man. Nights of
vigil in the Hôtel de l’Avenir, precious nights of
toil to master the hard facts, the classical signs
of disorder and disease collected and sifted by
observers from all lands, so necessary and so
insufficient for the making of a doctor. Work,
work, work! Summer holidays with empty
cafés in Boulevard St. Michel, École de Médecine
closed, laboratories and amphitheatres deserted,
clinics half-empty. But no holiday for suffering
in the hospital wards, no holiday for Death. No
holiday in the Hôtel de l’Avenir. No distraction
but an occasional stroll under the lime-trees of
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