Darkover was experiencing a flare-up of trailmen's fever, a disease that
would decimate the entire human population of Darkover, from the Comyn
to the Terrans. The Medical Branch at Terran HQ had the start of a cure,
but in order to finish it, they needed trailmen to come out of their
mountain heights and donate blood. Only one man on Darkover stood any
chance of persuading the trailmen to help, but he occupied the same body
as the doctor capable of doing the medical side of the work, and he was
the personality the doctor had utterly suppressed. Even with hypnosis,
only one of them could be active at a time, and the solution needed both
of them.
This story first appeared in Amazing Stories, November, 1958.