The Shenley Laboratories, producer of penicill and Shenley and Shenley Pharmaceuticals, presents the OnCore Theory, The on Core thea of play Tonight, Doctor Elix's Magic Bullet.
Our star is Charles Becker.
The Night Shenley Laboratories presents another and a new series of great dramatic programs. Some of our stories are fact, the struggles and accomplishments of great men of medicine. Others of fiction, stories of devotion to an ideal individual, heroism
or great courage. By these programs, Shenley Laboratories would remind you that medical science and progress is not cold in personal research or pages of statistics, but a warm human story told in living terms, whether it's the life of one of medicine's immortals or the everyday record of service rendered by the lone physician. Now Doctor Elick's Magic Bullet starring Charles Bickford as Doctor Eric.
The facts are history. Now the words have been recorded for all to read. The man has been set in his rightful spot of honor among those designated by science and medicine for immortality. Listen to his story, the story of a man against a microbe. Let us go back to his younger years, when he was working in the Kaiser Wilhelm Hospital in Berlin. A man with a poor, undernourished body, sustained and driven by inner fires. In those days, he was not thought much of and his laboratory experiments
were ridiculed. But he became friendly with another young doctor and through him he received the most important invitation, Doctor Perring.
I can't tell you how I'm delighted to see you.
Professor Coke has called this meeting to announce the most exciting discovery.
Very kind of you to ask me.
That was a very important minute here today there is alt off over there, the Minister of Science. No, no, over there, the one with the muttonshoff whiskeys. Come on, we'd better sit down. It comes Professor Coke under the platform.
Now, gentlemen, it has long been my belief that tuberculosis is caused by a living microbe. Today I am able to announce that the search for this microbe has.
Come to a successful conclusion.
I have discovered the cause of tuberculosis and the corp of person suffering from this disease.
It is a living germ with a long rod like shape.
I invite you all to come forward and you a specimen of it under the microscope. Unfortunately, the bacilli do not stand out clearly. Only those whose eyes are trained and the use of the microscope will be able to see them. That, of course, makes my discovery of little or no value to the average doctor in diagnosing the causes of the berculosis.
It might be possible to see the basili by staining. Earlik, what's that? Who spoke? It was? Ihir? Professor? What did you say it? Come down front? These I can't hear you? Yes, sir?
Did you say stain the BASILEI?
Yes, sir. We must compound a die which combined with the substance of this microbe. Then the microbe will be plainly seen for it and nothing else on the slide will be stained.
Did you ever stain a microbe and nothing else on the slide?
Well? No, As a matter of fact, that I have reasona believe it's possible. It's it is possible.
I advise you to do so your fame in science will be guaranteed.
May I have a culture by.
All means, But be careful of the contents of this cube, young man.
They're very dangerous. Thank you, doctor coach, and good luck, young man. You'll need it.
Oh, Paul, that cough has me worried.
Oh I'm all right, Sadie got backing so much like a wife.
You were saying, Amiel, have you been working on those slides for months without getting anywhere?
Paul? Maybe you should give up. Perhaps your theory is wrong. Don't say that, Amel. I know my theory is right. Paul.
That cold too cold for you in your laboratory. I made a fire.
What did you say, you lit a fire?
Yes?
Oh no, what's a pole ruin my slide? That's what I've told you to stay out of here. I've told you a dozen times.
I'm sorry, Paul. Please forgive me.
Look at them, a week's work gone for not give me that towel. Headaches. We'll get them off the stove. Maybe they won't be spoiled. Yeah, put them here on the table. We'll look at them, and I have much hope, am Look the microbe, it's tame. The heat. The heat must have fixed the guy. You see them a meal? Of course I see them. The red rod like shapes are the tubercobacilli.
Anyone can see them now, well, this is marvelous, Paul, marvelous.
My dear dear missus Ilich. Will you marry me.
My darling, doctor Erlick, Of course I will.
Here you are, Professor Coke, my my microbe a bright red, My dear early how did you do it?
By applying fusion red, eating the slide and watching it for alcohol. It's the heat that does the trick. Oh, this is a great contribution.
The doctors, little doctors everywhere will be able to diagnosed tuberculosis with one accuracy. I owe you an apology, Dr Elich. My attitude taught you at the meeting.
Why you make me very happy, Professor.
Coche, Doctor Eli, I want you to join my staff. What I said in Irony holds good. Your place in science is guaranteed.
Man against the microbe.
It was the beginning of the fight for him, and he would still be fighting when he died. They sent him to Egypt before they let him work to get rid of his cough, and while he was there he began to study the effects of snake fights on people, and they began to wonder why snake bites were fatal in some cases and not in others.
So when he came back, and this is your laboratory, Doctor Elichh. I hope you find it's satisfactory. Now you can go ahead developing new staining methods.
I'm very grateful, but with your indulgence, I'd rather not work on dies at present.
Indeed, well, in that case you might join your friend doctor Barring in his diphtheria experiments. The number of new cases is alarming, most alarming it. It looks as if we're in for an epidemic.
I'm afraid diph theory is not what I'm looking for either. What in heaven do you want to do right now? I want to work on snakes.
Well, I may. I laughed at you before, and I was wrong. If it's snakes you want, very well, you shall have snakes.
Get three more snakes and prepare them for me to collect the venom. These are depleaded. Oh yes, doctor Eman.
Halloa amil, but not oh every child I tried the diphtherious ceremon died.
It didn't work at all. I can't figure it out, Paul, But the guinea pigs had worked perfectly. And I'm in the midst of an experiment another time. I'll be glad to listen another time. Perhaps all the children in Germany will have choked to death by then. But of course your own experiment must comfort Amy. Listen to me, you don't know what you're talking about. When I was in Egypt, a man and a boy were bitten by an adder the same snake. The boy died horribly, but the man
wasn't even made sick. I'm only interested in dip theory. Please a Mael. Here's the point. Three times before he had been bitten three times. Each time the venom had less effect, the symptoms became less and less severe. This
last time he wasn't even sick. I muna for weeks now, I've done the same thing, experimentally infecting animals with gradually larger doses of snake venom until they were getting shots that would ordinarily kill a hundred of their species to one, all of which proves that immunity is not the quality of the blood, but something in the blood, specific substances that are formed by the cells, a chemical army which destroys bacteria and poisons. I'm beginning to see what you're
getting at. Look. This graph represents the development of immunity to snake venomon. It shows how you can increase the quantity of antibodies to neutralize any given amount of poison. Yes? Yes, do you think in diph theory A, You're not. We have only to store a sufficient quantity of antibodies and an animal by injecting it not once, but ten, twenty thirty times. You mean that the blood of a horse, perhaps which had withstood twenty increasingly large doses of diphtheria toxin,
would cure a child. It's my theory, Paul, PAULA. I want to beg your pardon, Amil. There's never any need for apologies between friends. Friends become friends because they understand one another. Here, let's get to work.
There's no use bringing any more children to this hospital. We can't do anything for us. They might as well die at home.
I have given orders to put up beds in the corridors, in the offices. We can't let them die in the streets. Come in, doctor Eric, doctor Berrying, what are you doing here? We have a new serum we're going to try.
We were set over by Professor Koch at the specific urging of Minister oltof bearing.
What's the use you tried your serum several times before and it feels the laboratory, this new serum showed itself one hundred times as effective as the old bearings. Old serum was good in the laboratory too. Nothing can stop the epidemic unless it is this serum. You cannot ignore the possibility. You are right, doctor Eliic, We cannot ignore any possibility. We will give the serum a last and final test. I will give you a ward with forty theory of patients in it. You will give the serum
to twenty patients and withhold it from the rest. If there is a higher percentage of recovery among the patients treated than among the untreated ones, we will know the serum has some value. As long as there's a chance the serum may work, I think we should give it to everybody. Only with a controlled experiment can we establish the value of your serum once and for all. So remember, twenty get the serum, and twenty do without alcohol. New needle,
too much? Check again? Another syringe? All right, prepare this boy, Paul, he would make twenty one. Look at his eyes. If you do, I am a chance to live. No, but Hartman said, I Am going to inject them all. Whyre you with me. I'm with you, Paul.
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for treatment of certain eye infections. In addition, Shenley Laboratories maintains a continuing research program for the study and development of other drugs derived from many sources and processes, so that tomorrow your doctor may have even more and better pharmaceuticals to aid him in his fight against disease. Now, the second act of Doctor Elick's Magic Bullet, starring Charles Bickford.
Alec had a bitter quarrel with Hartman after they'd finished the injection, and he and Barring left the hospital with the knowledge that if their serum failed there would be objects of ridicule. They went to Alec's small house and began to pace the hours until they should hear and at last an orderly came with an ominous message that his excellency, Minister Aldhaff was waiting to see them at the hospital.
Seen swim do young research mean? Ignore the instructions of distinguished physicians. In all my experience, I have never heard of such a thing.
I was wrong, your excellency, I know, But if you could have seen the faces of these children as they fought for breath.
And if you had known that there was even a chance they might be saved.
You may consider yourselves very fortunate indeed that things turned out as they did.
Why, your Excellency, is the news from the DIPI award.
Is it possible that you haven't heard heard what every one of the children you injected is recovering. The antitoxin saved them. I am issuing orders that bachelors of the serum be made up and sent to every city in Germany. Gentlemen, have a cigar all life.
I think i'd better sit down.
I'm going to see that both of you young men get the recognition you deserve. Doctor Erlik for you, I am going to create a research laboratory where you can be your own master.
What do you say, well, there is an idea, a theory that I want to experiment on a theory. Yes, I believe it will be possible one day manufacture immunity to disease and a test tube, mold little magic bullets to shoot into the bloodstream and destroy invading micro And what.
Disease are you specifically going after with this magic bullet?
Sephalis ten years.
Of study, experiment, experiment study ten years.
Gentlemen, we have two factors to reckon with the poisonous effect on the sons of the micro which of course would affect a cure, and the poisonous effect on the cells of the body, which would be fatal to the patient. Each shall be represented by a lion on this chart. The further apart we can push these two lines, the closer we shall be to success. When they are the width of this chart apart, we shall have found the magic bullet. It may take heaven.
Ten years of concentration and labor, disappointment and progress, ten years at the end of which Bearing now a distinguished professor came to see him, and an old friendship seemed lost. For Bearing an Alick found themselves stranger.
Oh, I have come here administer Olof's request. He's been having difficulty with the budget committee. They don't want to grant your appropriation. Altop has asked me to express an opinion as to the value of your work. He believes it would have sufficient weight to overbalance the opposition. Well, well, it places me in a very unpleasant position. The idea of shooting chemicals into the veins of human beings fills me with horror. If you will not, my friend, I would attack it publicly.
I'm not asking you to be silent. Put it in writing so that one day I can wave it before your nose. No, no use doing that, because you can't see beyond your nose. I'm sure you know how much our friendship means to me. No, we were friends ten years ago when your mind was open to new ideas, but we could never be friends with your present attitude. Good day, Paul, goodbye, Amiel.
Perring went back with his unfavorable report, and Airlex funds were cut in half, but funds were secured for him from private sources and the work went on.
Gentlemen, we have discovered beyond any shadow of doubt that arsenic is the key that fits the molecules to which the microbe is composed. But it also fits the molecules of which the brain and nerves are composed. We must now shape our key so that it fits only the microbe.
The days became weeks, the weeks months, and the numbers on his great chart representing experiments mounted into the hundreds, and gradually the lines grew farther and farther, until the numbers on the chart reached six or six and the lines were the width of the chart apart.
Doctor Elick, board of Directors of the German Medical Association has delegated us to ask you when you will submit your drug for recommendation. You must realize, doctor Erick, that every position throughout the world is eager to use your new specific. No, gentlemen, I'm sorry, but I cannot release the specific at this time. First I must find out how the preparation affects people with complications with diseases, with high blood pressure, but nervous conditions. You must give me more time.
Gentlemen, I have a patient, to a young girl. It would be a tragedy if she should die of this horrible thing.
With six or six her life can be saved. I am an old man, doctor Eleck.
And you will forgive me if I speak freely. I recall that some years ago there was a deterior epidemic, and a young doctor unknown and transcended the scientific attitude to relieve some suffering children. If there is a remedy in the name of humanity, surely that doctor will release it to the public.
There is nothing I can say an answer to so eloquence a flea doctor. I will see that you, gentlemen, get the specific as you require it.
It was the gesture of the humanitarian, not the wise of motiontionless decision of the man of science.
And he was in trouble very fast. In how many gifts will fit? Do you have absolute proof that Erlich's come pun with the cause? Thirty eight?
As publisher of the most influential newspapers in the country, it is your duty to reveal the truth about this damnable drug.
I have here an article of my own writing which will serve to launch the attack. I'll read you part of it. The victims of six oh six were as surely murdered as if they had been stabbed from behind. How can such a dangerous drug be distributed in enormous quantities in our country? The reason is that its discoverer, Paul Erlick, and the rhyin chemical industries incorporated, through their influence with persons in high station, have been able to
put pressure on physicians health offices. We publish that Erlick will sue you for libel. I wouldn't ask anything better. A trial would bring everything into the open. It would be the finish of Erlic and his so called specific One of the biggest names of science would testify in our behalf Amiel von Behring himself.
Before resuming, the court must once more remind all parties concerned that this is a trial of libel and that the sole question which concerns us at this time is did doctor Erlik distribute a poisonous product which caused the deaths of numerous individuals? And did he continue to market the product for personal profit after he had knowledge of these deaths, as stated by the defendant of Wilfrid in his article A defense attorney will continue.
Please, doctor Lynch, you have heard the previous witnesses in this case testify to the deaths of thirty eight persons. Were the symptoms in all these instances precisely similar to those of your patient Freedom MESCA. Yes, And in your opinion, what was the cause of Freedom Metzker's.
Death, awsenic poisoning your honor. Of course, arsenic is a poison. There can be no question but that arsenic killed them.
I object doctor Aerlick is injuring himself to testifying without legal advice.
I want no legal advice. It's a question of truth to a great extent. I am responsible for these deaths. It would not have occurred had I withheld six O six until I was able to test every reaction to the drug. These fatalities, however, have taught us that in certain rare instances, a chemistry occurs within the body which
breaks down the compound and releases the arsenic. And now we know also that each of these individuals flies a danger flag, an intense itching of the skin, which manifests itself in ample time to discontinue treatment in the future. The preparation may be prescribed to any sufferer without risk.
We are not concerned with the rosy future which doctor Erlick paints. The relevant point is his admission that six those six cause the deaths of thirty eight people.
I am only trying to help the court understand the real nature of these deaths.
The court understands well enough without your assistance.
I demand that the counsel for the defense show respect toward my clients. Gentlemen.
Gentlemen, I'm afraid that your observations are irrelevant for this issue, Doctor Elick.
Irrelevant. Next witness, all Metal, dud. It's the books of the Erlick Institute, mister Metal.
Is there a special fund devoted to further work on six h six?
Yes, it operates on the sums I received from the Rhine Chemical Industries Incorporated.
Does doctor Erlick take money from this fund for his personal use at any time?
No, that would be impossible. It is a trust fund which can be used only for test animals, laboratory equipment, and salaried assistance.
Your honor, Yes, Doctor Wolford. In view of this testimony, I feel called upon to make a public apology to doctor Elick for accusing him of capitalizing on his specific It must be remembered, however, that the main issue is in no way affected by the present revelation. My original statement that six O six is a poison and not a cure remains unchained. I'm sure that Professor von Bring will corroborate this statement.
Will Professor Emu von Bering take the stand, please, Professor Bearing, Is there any scientific means of proof by which it is possible to determine whether or not six oh six performs lasting cures?
Only time which tries all truth?
In your opinion worthy thirty eight deaths mentioned in the evidence here due to six O six.
In my opinion, they were so that while no cures can be attributed to six six, thirty eight deaths resulted from its use thirty nine thirty nine. You know of another, yes, Siphlis, But her Professor, you have written and lectured against the arlic theory of chemical therapy. Doctor Wolfrid must realize that it is the task of science to discover the truth and that there is no shame attached to recognition of errors. In the past six months.
I have studied hundreds of cases, and I am now convinced that six O six is a complete success. Six O six stops infectiousness. The individuals who are treated with it are no longer capable of passing on the disease to others, and if there is no transmission of the infection, the disease must necessarily die out. Two thirty eight individuals are dead from six o six, but those dead must
be thought of his martyrs to the public good. If ten times their number had fallen, I would still say it is all for the best or through it, and only through six o six, or possibly some new drug not yet discovered, can the fight against this dread disease be won.
A court is satisfied from the evidence that six oh six is recognized by the medical profession as the best remedy yet developed for syphilis. And it is the court's hoped that this trial will not only serve to vindicate doctor Arlick of the accusations made by the defendant, but also that it will impress upon the world the full
value of his great contribution to mankind. Therefore, in accordance with paragraph one eighty six of the Code, the defendant, doctor Hants Wolfrit stands convicted of criminal libel and this sentence to one year in prison. In view of the fact that he's not previously been convicted of any crime, the prison sentence will be suspended and he'll be placed on probation.
Amiel, I don't know what to say to you, how to thank you for your testimony. Don't thank me, Paul. For the rest of my life.
I am going to be thanking you, and so will all doctors and all people, not only in our time, but in all the times to come. You're an honor to your profession, your country, and your century.
In a moment, we'll bring our star Charles Bickford back to this microphone. But first we leave this thought with you. Is it serious, doctor you ask when you are ill. Whatever your physician's answer, common sense dictates that the sooner you consult him about any disturbing symptoms, the more certain
the control or cure of your ailment will be. Shenley Laboratory suggest you consult your physician when you're worried about your health, have a regular physical check up even when you feel all right, and your chances of a long and health filled life will be far greater for it. Now Here is the star of to Night's play Charles Beckford, Ladies.
And gentlemen, to sum up the spirit of this Shenley Laboratories program. This simple and beautiful prayer of the physician, written centuries ago by my modernly deeds, seems to me to be apt and fitting. The eternal Providence has appointed me to watch over the life and death of all thy creatures. I always see in the patient a fellow creature in pain. Grant me strength an opportunity always to extend the domain of my craft. This is the of
the physician. It is ages old, yet today it is as new as the hope for a peaceful way of life for all the world. May we invite you to listen again next week at this same time, when Shenley Laboratory presents Dark Victory, starring franch Art Tone and Susan Peters, two great stars in a great story. Good Night.
Doctor Alex's Magic Bullet was produced and directed by Bill Lawrence and was presented to the courtesy of Warner Brothers, who this year is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Sound Pictures. It was a Gene Holloway adaptation Charles Bickford will soon be seen in the Dory Sherry RKO production Katie for Congress. This is Frank Graham speaking for Shenley Laboratories, producer of penicillin Shenley and inviting udism next Tuesday at the same time when you will hear Franchotne and.
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