Doctor Bull Page #5

- Oh, did I?

- Yeah.

- The crazy guy.

You can only take tonsils out once.

- Hello, Mary.

Unless they grow back in again.

Of course,

mine didn't grow back in again.

While you sit here messing

with your old cow medicine...

people in this town need ya!

I've just been over to see Susie.

I tell you, it isn't spring fever.

It's typhoid fever!

- What?

- That's what I said.

Susie's got it. I can smell her!

Say, typhoid fever's a disease...

caused by a specific organism

called Bacillus typhosus.

It don't fall on you out of the trees...

or like manna down from heaven.

Yes, but in plain words,

it's a germ, ain't it?

And you can get it

at your mouth, can't you?

Well, let it go a couple of days,

and we'll see what happens.

And let others catch it.

Catch it! You don't catch it.

It's an intestinal disease.

But sometimes them bugs

get into water, don't they?

And people drink the water,

don't they?

How did Susie look?

She's got a burning fever

and pains in her stomach.

Has she got any splotches

on her skin-

kind of rose-colored splotches?

She looks awful red.

Well, I told you.

Do you want tea or coffee

for supper?

Do you want

tea or coffee for your supper?

Kenneth?

Coffee.

Say, is all this yours, Doc?

- Oh, yes.

With an exhibit like this, you ought to

have taken it to the Century of Progress.

If the machinery will do you any good, you

ought to keep people living a hundred years.

Will you come in, Doctor?

Wouldn't mind

being a patient here myself.

Yes, we have all the latest equipment.

Will you sit down?

I'm gonna give you a chance

to try some of it out.

You know, Doctor, I got 11 cases of sickness

in my little town over there.

It's all broke out in the last couple of days.

In fact, since the rain.

Yes, I heard about it.

I got a specimen.

There's a specimen of blood there.

That's from our cook, Susie.

I want you to try that out

on your fancy apparati in there...

and see what's in it.

- What do you think is here?

- Typhoid.

Oh, I doubt that.

Well, of course you're a specialist,

and I'm an old cow doctor, but...

well, in fact, it wasn't me that discovered

the idea that it was typhoid.

It was- It was Aunt Myra.

She smelled it.

Smelled-

Nonsense.

But there should be

a source of infection.

Oh, Mrs. Janet Cardmaker supplies

the village with milk, doesn't she?

Yeah. It's the best milk

ever was milked too.

Has it examined

by the State every week.

Oh, Miss Stanley.

I want to do a typhoid culture.

Put 50 cubic centimeters of that solution

we have in the lab in an Ehrlenmeyer flask...

and three of this specimen of Dr. Bull's,

and shoot it in the incubator.

Immediately, Doctor.

- Where'd you get her, Doc?

- Oh, she's a bit new. She's a nice girl.

Well, I'll let you know

the results tomorrow.

By the way, I had a letter from the foundation

about that Joe Tupping case.

There's absolutely no chance.

I'm sorry.

Well, I am too.

I'm still working on him with a little serum

that I cooked up myself.

What?

Uh, you know,

I got a theory that, uh-

well, uh, well, what Joes

nervous system needs...

is a- it's a shock, you know...

like a-well, like a watch

when it ain't running.

You drop it,

and it starts sometimes.

Yes, I see.

Sounds kind of simple, don't it?

Yes, very.

- Good day, Doc.

- Good-bye, Doctor.

- Howdy, Doc.

- Hello, Gaylord.

- How's the cows?

- Pretty pert.

I hear Miss Janets got some new ones.

Is this one of em?

Don't you know her?

- No, I don't know her. How'd I know her?

- That's the cow you doctored.

Yeah?

- Didn't that old cow die?

- Die? Kicked me this mornin'.

Say, was-

Was she really afflicted

like you said she was?

That cow didn't move a leg

in three weeks.

- Plumb paralyzed, huh?

- Plumb.

By golly, I wish I could remember

what I give her.

Here. Joe.

This ain't gonna hurt... much.

Didn't hurt, did it?

How does the old leg feel?

About the same, Doc.

May, see those toes stickin' up there?

Gonna have them wiggling

pretty soon.

You keep up the rubbing on the leg.

Say, where's the-

where's the hot water bottle?

- Gosh, I'm freezing to death here, Doc.

Yeah.

You'll be sweating pretty soon.

What is that stuff you give me, Doc?

Oh. Oh, this?

Oh, it's, uh-

Oh. Oh, it's got a-

It's got a long Latin name here.

You wouldn't know what it was.

I can't hardly say it myself.

But it'll do the trick.

- The trick, huh?

- Mm-hmm.

About two more shots, and we got it.

Your Aunt Myra wants you to come over

to Susie's right away.

Susie's?

Say, uh, by the way, what are you-

what are you doing out here today?

- How come you ain't working?

- Doris is taking my place.

Well, that's fine. That's great.

Take good care of Joe there now.

He's, uh- He's getting along fine.

All he needs is a little more sleep.

I think you need some sleep, Dr. Bull.

Who, me? Doctor?

Sleep?

We gotta die to get any sleep.

- So long.

- So long, Doc.

- Say, uh, I'll be back tomorrow.

- All right, Doc.

Oh, Joe.

Did you hear what he said?

Yes, and what's the big idea?

- Hello, Doc. How are you?

Good morning, Bull.

Hello, Helen. Anything for me?

Yeah, here's a special for you.

By golly, Aunt Myra was right.

- Bad news, Doc?

- Yeah.

Say, we got a-we got

a typhoid epidemic in this town.

- Huh?

- What's that?

Here's a report

from the Verney Laboratory.

Says it's typhoid.

Now we gotta get busy.

- I knew something was wrong.

- Are you sure of that?

Yeah. Now, uh, we got

to boil all the water...

and everybody in town's

gotta be inoculated.

I won't let any child of mine

be shot full of them bugs!

My brother Howard nearly lost his arm

that time you stuck him for smallpox.

Do you mean to tell me that's what's wrong

with my little girl? Typhoid?

Well, l- I'm afraid it is.

I'm going to call Dr. Verney.

- And you say the water's contaminated?

- It may be.

How did it get contaminated?

Well, it's my opinion that it's the drainage

from that construction camp.

You're the health officer!

When did you last inspect that camp?

Well, l- Banning and Snyder-

I told them to keep it clean.

But you're the health officer,

ain't you?

Aw, there's a lot of sickness

in this town.

I've got no time to run around

looking at water!

Who cares what caused it?

It's here, ain't it?

I'm gonna vaccinate all the children

at the schoolhouse in the morning.

I want you parents

to have 'em there too.

I got some good news for you kids.

How would you like

to have a day's vacation?

- Swell!

- That's great.

Well, now, uh, all in the world

you're gonna have to do...

is just to, uh-

is to roll up your sleeve.

No, no. Your left sleeve.

You ain't gonna stick

that needle in us, are you, Doc?

If I did, it wouldn't hurt you.

I never did hurt any of you kids, did I?

No, you ain't done nothin'

but give us a lot of pills.

Yeah, my old man says

that's all you can do.

Oh, is that so?

Wait till your old man gets sick again.

- See what happens to him.

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