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Gottlieb, seeing Arrowsmith's genius, loved him well, worked him cruelly, burned into him technic and skepticism so deeply that the boy was fashioned for his destiny before he met little Leora, who was to hold...
...Leora - Leora Tozer - was a probationer in the Zenith Hospital. She looked up from scrubbing a floor, grinned at self-important young "Dr." Arrowsmith; sassed him, understood him, made him her life. She was untidy, not brainy, not pretty. But her genius for living matched Arrowsmith's capacity for work...
Their life was a succession of frustrations. Leora's effort for a child was abortive. Arrowsmith's country practice in her home town - Wheatsylvania, N. D. - was satisfying (despite her puny relatives) until he indulged in research to cure a cattle-plague gratuitously, and was over cautious concerning a smallpox scare. The research aroused unbearable little professional jealousies. The pox turned out chicken, not small, and left raillery behind it. So again he cleared out, seeking his chance with a very modern, very shrewd private clinic in Chicago. Such clinics deal in fads, however, not in facts...
...turned up in the West Indies and he headed the McGurk Commission. He would try out his Phage, but insisted that test patients be observed first. More hostility from McGurk, from the colonial government. When he finally had his way, Death, ironic in ghastly buboes, crept in arid throttled Leora. So that stroke for Science flew wide. Her death unmanned him, his figures went to pot, and the results McGurk published were flagrantly padded...
...hunters! Gottlieb was decrepit, Leora gone. Arrowsmith tried life as the scientist husband of a rich widow. No good. Finally he buried himself in the Vermont woods, tracking down bacteriological verities with Terry Wickett. As the world saw it, he had "failed...