Sybil Crawley

Combeferre nodded, once again appreciating her steady practicality. "Few things are are entirely positive when in excess," he agreed. "And treating the sick requires balance. Galen seems to have gotten that right, if he was wrong about nearly everything else." Despite his words, the young would-be doctor could only feint at such cautious wisdom. The sights and smells of epidemic were still too recent in his memories to, in his heart, think sensibly about modern medicine's miracle cures. "Cholera was particularly bad in Paris this spring - right before I got here, that is," he said with a sobered expression. "To think, we could have so easily combated it, if we had only known how."