Doctors and medicine in the products of L. N. Tolstoy

Abstract

In a number of all human knowledge, there is hardly another branch that would so closely touch the interests of everyone and everyone, like medicine. The endless attachment to life inherent in man, the so-called instinct of self-preservation, creates in him a well-known, irresistible need always and everywhere to seek help from those around him in moments of comprehending his ailments. By virtue of this, one might say, universal, vital need, a person not only himself always from time immemorial used medical aid, but always still had and has a tendency to heal others, his neighbors. In a word, every person feels and finds in himself, to some extent, a need and a calling to heal and alleviate the suffering of other people.

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