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". The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the co-operation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first. " _Manual, Interstellar Medical Service._ P. 189.
Calhoun worked all night, tending and inspecting the culture incubators which were part of the Med ship's technical equipment. In the children's shelters, he'd swabbed throats. In the ship, he'd diluted the swabbings and examined them microscopically. He'd been depressingly assured of his very worst fears as a medical man -- all of which could have been worked out in detail from the psych circuit system of child care boastfully described by Fredericks. He could have written out his present results in advance from a glance at the child Jak shown him by the younger Walker's wife. But he hated to find that objective information agreed with what he would have predicted by theory.