Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet Page #5

You please leave

this hospital at once.

'Dr. Hartmann,

please be reasonable. '

'If you don't leave

the hospital, I'll call the police. '

If you call the police

before I finish my injections

I'm gonna tell the parents

that you're preventing me

From treating

these children.

This is blackmail.

Criminal blackmail,

and don't think it ends here.

I'm going

to hold you responsible.

- Will they get well, doctor?

- Any hope for my child?

Did you find out anything?

No. Nothing.

Eight o'clock.

We should know by now

whether the race is won or lost.

I wasn't allowed to enter

the hospital.

No.

Our serum's a failure.

Hartmann will see to it

that the both of us

Are finished in science.

Both?

You aren't concerned.

The quarrel is between

Hartmann and me.

The devil you say,

this is a collaboration.

We share equally in everything,

blame included.

There's no reason

why you should assume

Responsibility

for my action.

Now, Paul, listen...

- Dr. Behring, Dr. Ehrlich.

- 'Yes. '

Any news about the children?

His excellency Minister Althoff,

instruct you to appear

Before him at once

at the hospital.

- Althoff?

- Althoff at the hospital.

My orders

are to bring you there.

Well, that's it.

Being discharged is enough.

I'm not going.

- Where is Von Behring?

- He's, uh...

Never mind. Sit down.

Since when have young research

workers threaten distinguish

Physicians

with mob violence?

In all my experience,

I never heard of such a thing.

I was wrong,

Your Excellency, I know.

If you'd have seen the

faces of those children

As they were struggling

to breath.

If you'd known there was a

chance they might be saved.

It's very fortunate for you that

things turned out as they did.

Why so, Your Excellency?

Is there news

from the diphtheria ward?

Can it be

that you haven't heard?

Heard what?

Every one of the children you

injected is recovering.

- The antitoxin saved them.

- Really?

- I must go and see them.

- Wait!

'I must talk to you. '

- Have a cigar.

- Thank you.

Sit down.

Ehrlich, I have plans for you.

Really, Your Excellency?

I want you to develop a similar

serum for typhoid.

But Behring is the originator

of the diphtheria serum.

I only helped him.

Behring shall

have a professorship

At Marburg University.

And as for you, I intend to

establish a research laboratory

In which you can be

your own master.

It would be

for the specific purpose

Of developing new serums?

Oh, yes, of course.

Well, then I cannot accept,

Your Excellency.

What are you saying?

Well, I have an idea,

a theory, if you will.

I want to experiment.

Try to prove it.

What practical results

are you looking for?

Well, if my theory is right...

It will be possible one day

to manufacture immunity

To disease in a test tube.

More little magic bullets

to shoot into the bloodstream

And destroy invading microbes.

Magic bullets?

I can't go to

a bunch of committee

And talk about

magic bullets.

But I'll convince 'em

that your work is valuable.

You shall have your laboratory

to do anything.

Cut out paper dolls

for all I care.

- You won't regret it.

- Oh, won't I?

I'm beginning

to regret it already.

Now, you get out of here

before I change my mind.

Oh, Ehrlich.

Come with me.

You didn't have to tell me

about the children's faces

As they fought to get breath

into their lungs.

My grandchild.

'Saved by your serum. '

Magic bullets.

And only we know about it.

So you see, my dear Weissman

My opponents don't understand

the principles of chemotherapy.

If you argue with them,

it's just like

Discussing... colors

with the color blind.

Just finish

that letter, Marquardt.

Marvelous reaction.

Beautiful color.

Careful.

Letter to Dr. Theodore Smith,

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dear Dr. Smith...

- Pretzel have his breakfast?

- 'Hmm. '

Beautiful color. Beautiful.

The committee is here,

professor.

"Dear, Dr. Smith",

you got that, Marquardt?

How's that?

- Oh, the committee.

- What committee?

The budget committee,

Herr professor

To inspect the institute.

So...

How many heads has the monster?

Four, Herr professor.

Show the committee in.

'Yes, Herr professor. '

I mustn't lose my temper.

I must remember that committee

is a necessary evil.

If I show any signs of

forgetfulness, do something.

Blow your nose...

Drop a book, anything.

Just help me to remember.

- Good afternoon, Herr doctor.

- Good afternoon.

- Good afternoon.

- Good afternoon.

May I present our new

member, Dr. Wolfert.

We need no introduction.

Wolfert and I are old friends.

- Aren't we, Wolfert?

- Indeed.

And of course,

you know Herr Mittelmeyer.

How do you do, Herr Mittelmeyer?

Be seated, gentlemen.

Have a cigar?

Thank you.

- They're excellent cigars.

- No, thank you.

- Wrapped in Havana.

- No, thank you.

Well, gentlemen,

what is your pleasure?

Would you care to look

around the institute?

First of all, we'd like to ask

a few general questions.

At your service.

Is it true, Herr doctor

That for some years

you've been working

To find a cure for a disease

that afflicts mice?

Yes, that's true.

Why, may I ask?

It's not because

I am prompted by any special

Tenderness

toward a mice.

Others look for ways

to get rid of mice.

But Dr. Ehrlich decorates the

walls of his rooms with them.

Hmm?

If the gentlemen would care

to look into the microscope...

The curving

snake-like objects

'You see are trypanosomes. '

'They're the cause of the

mouse disease you just mentioned. '

'I chose them because

their size and singular shape

'Make them easy to identify

under the microscope. '

Uh, maybe one of you

gentlemen remembers

My staining

the tubercle bacillus.

Well, following

the same idea of affinity

I compounded

an arsenic preparation.

Which when injected

in to the bloodstream

Combines with the microbe

and destroys it.

Like a magic bullet.

May I enquire

to what practical use

You intend to put

this discovery?

Well, I'm trying to find

magic bullets

Who wish to fight

human diseases.

How soon do you expect

expect your first success?

Oh, in a reasonably

short time.

Let's say, uh,

ten or fifteen years.

- But, doctor.

- Really, Herr doctor?

Ten or fifteen years, huh?

But I dare say, the disease

will still be with us then.

- Dr. Kraus.

- Yes.

'Now, I'm going to put

you in the hands of Dr. Kraus. '

'He will show you around.

Feel free to ask any questions. '

The institute is yours,

gentlemen.

Dr. Morgenroth, gentlemen.

From the commission.

How do you do?

I see you're working with

rabbits, doctor, why?

Rabbits are better

for our purpose.

What is your purpose

here, Herr doctor?

- To inject them.

- Inject them with what?

Infectious diseases.

Infects...

Mittelmeyer,

there's no danger.

Dr. Hata, gentlemen.

- How do you do?

- How do you do, doctor?

- You're not German, are you?

- Oh, no.

Now, back to your cage,

Mittelmeyer.

What?

What did you say?

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