Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet Page #7
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- 1940
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To overbalance the opposition.
Well?
Well...
Paul, why don't you
give up this dream
Of curing with chemicals?
There's no good in it.
Emil, how can you
doubt in the face
Of what I showed you
this afternoon?
You saw with your own eyes
How a chemical injected into the
mice destroyed the germs.
And set them crazy.
Yes, but that's
only a passing phase.
Eventually all that
will be done away with.
The idea of shooting chemicals
into the veins of human beings
Fills me with horror.
If you weren't my friend,
I'd attack it publicly.
But 'cause you are,
I can only remain silent.
I'm not asking you
to be silent.
Put it in writing, I want you
to put it in writing
So that I can, I can wave it
before your nose someday.
can't see beyond your nose.
'Paul. '
You know, you know what
our friendship means to me.
When your mind
was open to ideas.
Before you had a waistline
above your ears.
I'm sorry, Hedi. Thanks for your
kindness. Goodnight.
Emil, this isn't possible,
you mustn't leave like this.
I'm afraid I must.
Paul...
You and Emil
after all these years...
Let him go.
Emil!
What a pity.
He isn't the old Emil anymore.
No use mourning the loss.
I must work doubly fast now
to get something accomplished
Before the committee
can cut off my funds.
'A hundred and twenty
thousand marks for test animals. '
Ninety four thousand marks
for chemicals.
Sixty one thousand marks
for salaries.
for equipment.
And no practical results.
I move that
the debate be closed
And that the question
of the appropriation
For Paul Ehrlich
be put to a vote.
Aye.
All those in favor
of cutting the appropriation
For the Paul Ehrlich institute
by 50 percent
Signify by raising
the right hand.
And those oppose?
Uh, Mittelmeyer,
are you for or against?
Well, one the one hand,
there is science, but...
Are you for or against?
I am for... the reduction.
Only today we made
a great step forward.
I wish now, we hadn't.
This can't happen, Paul,
it absolutely cannot.
Well, it has.
Well, there must be something
that we can do, there must be.
I'd like to know what?
We should go to see
Franziska Speyer.
What about?
Well, I shall try to get
the money you need from her.
People like Franziska Speyer
don't give money away.
That's why they have money,
'cause they don't give it away.
No harm in trying.
So, you turn to me
like everyone else
Who wants money,
you turn to Franziska Speyer.
Ever since I said
I wanted to do something
In honor of my husband
It has been
My husband is doing
It must go on.
You are a good wife,
but I was a good wife too.
My husband's estate
mustn't be thrown away.
It must go where it can do
No one will ever
forget the name of Speyer
If you will help my husband.
I've got to find out for myself.
You bring Paul Ehrlich
to dinner next week.
Say, Thursday.
And let me make up
my mind about him.
No one can really like it
or even pretend to.
Dr. Ehrlich, what are you
experimenting on now, may I ask?
Syphilis.
I beg your pardon?
- Herr doctor, did you say...
- Yes, Franz Speyer.
- He said syphilis.
- Oh, I declare.
Well, uh, syphilis is
an infectious disease.
And like all other
infectious diseases
It's caused by microbes.
And, uh, people may get it
in very innocent ways.
Uh, from a public drinking cup.
From a table utensil, even.
What are you doing about it,
Herr doctor?
Well, I'm trying
to find a cure.
'Does that mean
you are developing a serum?'
No, I'm working
on a new principle.
What is this new principle?
Be careful, Franz Speyer
Please do, doctor,
we're most interested.
Well...
Nobody has ever
seen a molecule.
But let's imagine,
that they look like this.
'Paul. '
Not on Franz Speyer's
table cloth.
Let him alone. How am I
to understand otherwise?
Now, if we imagine the
molecules composing of microbes
To look like this key hole...
We can readily see that
any chemical molecule
That's gonna combine with them
must be shaped like a key
That would fit into it.
Now, this is the basis
of my theory of affinity.
So, after many years,
I discovered that arsenic
Was the key
which fit in the molecules
Of which
the microbe is composed.
But it also fits the
molecules of which the brain
And the nerves are composed.
Now if you must shape
our key
So that it fits
only the microbe.
It's just there are thousands
of chemical combinations
It will take
thousands of experiments.
Fascinating,
really fascinating.
In fact, the most fascinating
thing I have ever heard.
Today, we are ready to show you
the results of the 606th test.
A complete recovery.
- It's unbelievable.
- 'It's wonderful, miraculous. '
He shows no ill effects at all.
Think of our first test
with the mice.
And now, at last,
a complete recovery.
It's harder to believe
the realization and the dream.
It's too wonderful to be true.
So... we come
to the end of the road.
A road full of twists and turns.
Six hundred and six.
When we began,
I remember that I said
That it might take
even 100 experiments.
And I thought
I was exaggerating.
more than a score or two
And that'd take over
a few months at the most.
You've shown courage, fortitude.
I've very proud of you,
each one of you.
Very.
We're proud to have
served under you, Herr doctor.
You was the example
you set us.
Six-o-six...
Sounds magical.
Number to conjure with.
Six-o-six,
the magic number
By which devils may be
cast out of the bodies of men.
Maybe...
For as yet, ours is
a theoretical trial.
The last step
is yet to be taken.
If it cures
man's nearest relation
Sure, it should cure a man.
I'm afraid, it's not
so simple as you think.
If we injected humans
with unfortunate results...
Our specific may be
damned from it's exception.
'How can we avoid it?'
Now we must proceed
with the utmost secrecy.
Should the unexpected occur
I want your promises...
That the outside world
will never know.
But, Herr professor...
We'll discuss
the details tomorrow.
Kadereit,
may I have the coat?
Oh, if you want to take
the afternoon off
I'll never know.
- 'Kraus. '
- Yes?
- You know what I think?
- No, what?
The old man intends
to inject himself.
Nonsense.
Morgenroth, have you...
Rapid but... quite alright.
Attention.
I've asked you here today
hoping that out of your number
A few would volunteer
to undergo a new treatment
For the disease
that affect you.
This new
treatment involve some danger.
And neither the hospital
nor I personally
Can guarantee you
any results whatsoever.
Those who wish to volunteer,
hold up your hands.
Take me, doctor,
take me, doctor.
Alright, Kellner.
Quiet, please, quiet.
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