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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,699 --> 00:00:12,699 Subtitles: Luís Filipe Bernardes 2 00:01:46,700 --> 00:01:49,000 Michael, it's Elizabeth! 3 00:01:49,601 --> 00:01:52,301 - Hello, Alan. - Hello, Miss Kenny, glad to see you back. 4 00:01:52,332 --> 00:01:53,602 Thank you! 5 00:01:53,653 --> 00:01:55,803 - Mother! - Darling! 6 00:01:55,834 --> 00:01:58,904 - Elizabeth! - Oh, Father darling. 7 00:01:58,945 --> 00:02:01,705 - How does it feel to be home again? - Oh, wonderful. How are you? 8 00:02:01,736 --> 00:02:04,206 Just fine, couldn't be better. How are you, Dr. McDonnell? 9 00:02:04,207 --> 00:02:06,400 Hello, Mr. Kenny. Well, what do you think of your daughter now? 10 00:02:06,428 --> 00:02:08,258 Oh, she's a little too grown-up to suit me. 11 00:02:08,279 --> 00:02:09,800 I don't know what kind of a nurse she's going to make. 12 00:02:09,821 --> 00:02:11,601 I guess I'll have to get sick to find out. 13 00:02:11,622 --> 00:02:14,600 Your father and I wanted to go to your graduation but he's been so busy and... 14 00:02:14,643 --> 00:02:17,900 Anyway, we wanted to meet you at the train. Why didn't you telegraph? 15 00:02:20,601 --> 00:02:22,531 Did you see her graduate, doctor? 16 00:02:22,552 --> 00:02:24,652 He walked right in in the middle of my oath. 17 00:02:24,773 --> 00:02:27,100 Oh, I was there in time for the last paragraph... 18 00:02:27,121 --> 00:02:29,100 - ...and that's the important part of it. - What was that? 19 00:02:29,301 --> 00:02:32,500 With loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician in his work. 20 00:02:32,552 --> 00:02:34,402 Precisely, and don't you forget it. 21 00:02:34,423 --> 00:02:36,333 - You'll never make a good nurse. - Why, Father? 22 00:02:36,354 --> 00:02:38,400 Nursing is a career for a homely woman... 23 00:02:38,431 --> 00:02:40,491 ...and not one of the Kenny girls is homely. 24 00:02:40,492 --> 00:02:41,900 - Oh, you hear? - Dr. McDonnell, 25 00:02:41,921 --> 00:02:44,551 you're going to have trouble when she walks through the wards for the first time... 26 00:02:44,572 --> 00:02:46,522 I'm a bit concerned about that myself. 27 00:02:46,543 --> 00:02:49,200 It's the duty of the nurse to keep the patients cheerful. 28 00:02:49,231 --> 00:02:50,800 Not that cheerful. 29 00:02:51,601 --> 00:02:54,501 You haven't told us all the news about Mrs. McDonnell, have you, Doctor? 30 00:02:54,532 --> 00:02:57,000 Well... we uh... heard that she... 31 00:02:57,031 --> 00:02:59,500 Michael means we heard that Nellie was going to have a baby. 32 00:02:59,501 --> 00:03:02,801 Yes, she lost it. 33 00:03:02,802 --> 00:03:06,400 Oh, dear, again? She loves children so. 34 00:03:06,431 --> 00:03:08,401 Yes, she's very good with them too. 35 00:03:09,502 --> 00:03:13,002 She wants Elizabeth to stay with us when she comes in to the hospital. 36 00:03:13,603 --> 00:03:16,063 Do you remember the first time you stayed with us when you broke your arm? 37 00:03:16,084 --> 00:03:17,654 I certainly do. 38 00:03:17,655 --> 00:03:19,800 Is that when you decided I wanted to be a nurse? 39 00:03:20,101 --> 00:03:22,780 I didn't decide it at all, I just discovered a talent. 40 00:03:22,799 --> 00:03:24,681 Of course you didn't encourage it? 41 00:03:24,699 --> 00:03:27,100 Whatever you did you did of your own free will. 42 00:03:27,131 --> 00:03:30,650 Hm, so many people do exactly as you want and always of their own free will. 43 00:03:30,671 --> 00:03:32,800 You're a born nurse and you know it. 44 00:03:33,401 --> 00:03:35,301 Our hospital's a fine chance for you. 45 00:03:35,322 --> 00:03:37,702 It's going to grow. Someday you'll be matron there. 46 00:03:37,733 --> 00:03:39,300 How soon can you start? 47 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,801 I'm not going to your hospital, Dr. McDonnell, I'm staying here. 48 00:03:46,502 --> 00:03:49,302 - What are you going to do? - Be a bush nurse. 49 00:03:49,323 --> 00:03:50,323 Bush nurse? 50 00:03:50,324 --> 00:03:52,580 Do you remember what you said years ago when I broke my arm? 51 00:03:52,599 --> 00:03:54,581 You said it to Mother, but I never forgot. 52 00:03:54,700 --> 00:03:57,183 You said a good bush nurse could have set that arm... 53 00:03:57,199 --> 00:03:59,300 ...and you wouldn't have to break it to set it straight again. 54 00:03:59,501 --> 00:04:03,101 Well, I'm going to be that bush nurse. 55 00:04:04,802 --> 00:04:07,552 It's quite a responsibility, you know. I'm the nearest doctor... 56 00:04:07,573 --> 00:04:09,883 - ...and I'm fifty miles away. - That's just the point. 57 00:04:09,924 --> 00:04:12,174 You think you have enough experience. Don't you think a couple of years... 58 00:04:12,195 --> 00:04:14,175 ...at the hospital can give you more confidence? 59 00:04:14,196 --> 00:04:16,386 Two years in your hospital and I'd never be a bush nurse. 60 00:04:16,387 --> 00:04:19,887 I don't know... Where did you get this crazy idea anyway? 61 00:04:20,488 --> 00:04:21,999 From you. 62 00:04:22,020 --> 00:04:24,200 Oh, that's ridiculous. Why start something you can't finish? 63 00:04:24,231 --> 00:04:26,401 Being a bush nurse is a killing life. You couldn't stand it. 64 00:04:26,422 --> 00:04:28,652 - I grew up here in the bush. - Not as a nurse. 65 00:04:28,653 --> 00:04:32,253 Forty miles from one neighbor to the next. In the saddle all the time. 66 00:04:32,274 --> 00:04:35,754 Bad roads, dirty cabins, boiling bed clothes, scrubbing floors... 67 00:04:35,775 --> 00:04:37,855 - I thought of all that. - You couldn't stand it. 68 00:04:37,886 --> 00:04:39,756 If you wanted to be really useful as a nurse, 69 00:04:39,777 --> 00:04:42,100 would you work in a hospital or out here in the bush? 70 00:04:42,131 --> 00:04:45,601 - Who's asking questions around here? - Come on, tell me I'm not needed here. 71 00:04:47,602 --> 00:04:52,100 Elizabeth, I'm very worried about you. 72 00:04:52,903 --> 00:04:55,903 Someday that stubborn streak's going to get you into trouble. 73 00:04:56,104 --> 00:04:57,804 How soon do you think? 74 00:04:58,505 --> 00:05:00,750 In six months you'll be applying at the hospital... 75 00:05:00,771 --> 00:05:02,951 ...either as a nurse or as a patient. 76 00:05:58,752 --> 00:06:01,100 Whisht! Whisht, everybody! 77 00:06:02,801 --> 00:06:05,000 Elizabeth Kenny, your friends and neighbors... 78 00:06:05,021 --> 00:06:07,000 ...have gathered here tonight to do you honor. 79 00:06:07,021 --> 00:06:08,121 And it's about time. 80 00:06:08,302 --> 00:06:09,602 Whisht, Weir! 81 00:06:09,633 --> 00:06:12,803 As I was saying, to do you honor, and it's about time. 82 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,554 For the best part of three years you've labored amongst us... 83 00:06:16,575 --> 00:06:18,255 without a thought for yourself... 84 00:06:18,275 --> 00:06:21,805 in the lonely watches of the night, in foul weather and fair, 85 00:06:21,846 --> 00:06:24,706 - in sickness and in health. - Get on with it, Angus! 86 00:06:25,007 --> 00:06:27,600 If you think you can do it any better, Patrick O'Shea, 87 00:06:27,631 --> 00:06:29,200 come up here and do it! 88 00:06:31,801 --> 00:06:34,700 Where was I? You see, he's driven it completely out of my head. 89 00:06:34,721 --> 00:06:36,601 It's a beautiful speech, Mr. Frazier. 90 00:06:36,642 --> 00:06:38,602 It was when I tried it on Maggie. 91 00:06:40,633 --> 00:06:42,553 But what I want to say is... 92 00:06:42,654 --> 00:06:46,554 ...that some of us here wouldn't even be here if you hadn't patched us up. 93 00:06:46,555 --> 00:06:50,555 Look at me. Two years ago, when I had a broken leg, 94 00:06:50,576 --> 00:06:52,556 I thought I'd never walk again. 95 00:06:52,777 --> 00:06:55,780 And all those Bearns you brought into the world, 96 00:06:55,781 --> 00:06:58,781 Ah, they're a bonnie crop of Aussies. 97 00:06:58,799 --> 00:07:00,582 Aye, that they are, Angus! 98 00:07:00,599 --> 00:07:04,083 Don't forget me, Angus. She pulled me through pneumonia. 99 00:07:04,099 --> 00:07:07,384 Aye, she did. But she's allowed one mistake! 100 00:07:09,785 --> 00:07:11,700 Now, to come to the point, Nurse Kenny, 101 00:07:11,731 --> 00:07:14,101 since you won't take a penny for what you've done, 102 00:07:14,122 --> 00:07:16,102 we've all got together and... 103 00:07:16,133 --> 00:07:18,503 Archie! Archie! 104 00:07:33,404 --> 00:07:35,904 Speech! Speech! 105 00:07:37,205 --> 00:07:39,105 I... 106 00:07:39,606 --> 00:07:41,906 I don't know what to say. 107 00:07:43,707 --> 00:07:45,900 Of course you shouldn't have done this. 108 00:07:45,901 --> 00:07:48,101 I can't tell you how... how much it... 109 00:07:50,902 --> 00:07:53,302 I'm not very good at making speeches... 110 00:07:53,333 --> 00:07:54,500 But I... 111 00:07:58,301 --> 00:08:01,201 He seems to be able to say it far better than I can. 112 00:08:04,202 --> 00:08:06,802 Thank you. Thank you all. 113 00:08:07,103 --> 00:08:09,603 Now, let's go on with the dance. 114 00:08:11,004 --> 00:08:13,000 I'll take him, Miss Kenny. 115 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,804 Does it hurt here, darling? 116 00:09:15,205 --> 00:09:16,705 Here too? 117 00:09:16,746 --> 00:09:20,606 She went lame yesterday just like I've seen cows do before they fell down. 118 00:09:25,007 --> 00:09:27,207 Can't you straighten your leg, Dorrie? 119 00:09:30,408 --> 00:09:32,808 Try this one, try now. 120 00:09:35,209 --> 00:09:37,900 There, don't cry, darling. 121 00:09:38,101 --> 00:09:39,900 We're not going to hurt you. 122 00:09:40,101 --> 00:09:42,401 Don't you think you could try and go to sleep now? 123 00:09:42,402 --> 00:09:45,302 It hurts... it hurts all over. 124 00:09:48,203 --> 00:09:50,003 Yes. 125 00:09:51,404 --> 00:09:53,304 But we're going to fix you up. 126 00:10:07,105 --> 00:10:09,605 Are you sure it isn't the cow sickness? 127 00:10:10,906 --> 00:10:12,806 What ails her, Nurse Kenny? 128 00:10:12,847 --> 00:10:14,107 Yes, what is it? 129 00:10:19,108 --> 00:10:21,108 Don't you know what it is? 130 00:10:23,109 --> 00:10:25,109 No, Martha, I don't. 131 00:10:26,410 --> 00:10:29,000 - Where's the nearest telegraph office? - Dry Fork. 132 00:10:29,021 --> 00:10:32,301 - How long will it take you to get there? - About an hour, if I take the shortcuts. 133 00:10:32,502 --> 00:10:35,600 Wake up the operator if he's gone to bed. This has got to get straight through. 134 00:10:36,101 --> 00:10:38,100 Wait for the answer and bring it back as soon as you can. 135 00:10:38,121 --> 00:10:39,801 It's to Dr. McDonnell in Toowoomba. 136 00:10:40,002 --> 00:10:41,802 But he can't get away out here. 137 00:10:41,803 --> 00:10:44,203 He can tell me what to do. I've described her symptoms. 138 00:10:44,254 --> 00:10:45,404 Please hurry. 139 00:10:50,105 --> 00:10:52,105 Mommy, can I go with Daddy? 140 00:10:53,306 --> 00:10:55,406 You go back to sleep now, Nora. 141 00:10:56,307 --> 00:10:59,107 Martha, you'd better keep the twins away from Dorrie. 142 00:10:59,148 --> 00:11:01,208 It might be catching. 143 00:11:02,709 --> 00:11:06,600 Oh, can't you do something for her? The pain's so bad. 144 00:11:06,631 --> 00:11:09,100 I can't do anything until I hear from Dr. McDonnell. 145 00:11:09,301 --> 00:11:10,801 It's just that... 146 00:11:10,902 --> 00:11:13,402 I can't stand to hear her cry like that. 147 00:11:13,443 --> 00:11:17,003 Martha, you go make some tea for yourself and try and get some rest. 148 00:11:17,004 --> 00:11:19,999 Everything will be all right when we hear from Dr. McDonnell. 149 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:13,900 Nurse Kenny! Nurse Kenny! 150 00:12:19,001 --> 00:12:20,601 Did you get an answer? 151 00:12:23,402 --> 00:12:24,802 What is it? 152 00:12:25,303 --> 00:12:28,003 - What does it say? - Infantile paralysis. 153 00:12:28,504 --> 00:12:31,104 - Paralysis? - They don't know any way to treat it. 154 00:12:31,195 --> 00:12:33,505 What kind of help is that from a doctor? 155 00:12:39,306 --> 00:12:42,306 - No known treatment? - That's what it says. 156 00:12:59,207 --> 00:13:00,807 What are we going to do? 157 00:13:00,838 --> 00:13:04,108 - What the telegram says. - But it says there's no known treatment. 158 00:13:04,109 --> 00:13:06,609 It says something else, Martha. Read it again. 159 00:13:08,010 --> 00:13:10,610 Do the best you can with the symp... 160 00:13:10,641 --> 00:13:13,811 With the symptoms presenting themselves. 161 00:13:15,712 --> 00:13:18,000 Oh, she's twisted into knots. 162 00:13:18,001 --> 00:13:22,701 Yes, these muscles are contracted. They're pulling her into knots. 163 00:13:22,732 --> 00:13:24,302 You mean they're paralyzed? 164 00:13:24,303 --> 00:13:27,000 If they were paralyzed, they couldn't pull. 165 00:13:27,401 --> 00:13:29,801 They feel tense and straining. 166 00:13:30,202 --> 00:13:32,302 Her back is arched. 167 00:13:32,703 --> 00:13:35,303 The spinal muscles feel contracted. 168 00:13:43,704 --> 00:13:45,904 Her posterior neck muscles too. 169 00:13:49,605 --> 00:13:50,905 Better? 170 00:13:55,606 --> 00:13:58,806 They look to me to be shorter than they should be. 171 00:14:02,007 --> 00:14:05,707 They're pulling against other muscles. That's why she's in pain. 172 00:14:08,108 --> 00:14:10,208 You see, this muscle isn't tense. 173 00:14:12,009 --> 00:14:14,209 This opposing muscle is. 174 00:14:15,110 --> 00:14:20,410 Looks to me to be drawn up in a kind of spasm or something. 175 00:14:24,910 --> 00:14:26,811 Spasm. 176 00:14:31,212 --> 00:14:32,912 I'll need your help, Martha. 177 00:14:34,113 --> 00:14:35,403 I'm going to try moist heat. 178 00:14:35,424 --> 00:14:37,180 I want to put it on her as hot as she can stand it. 179 00:14:37,214 --> 00:14:39,774 Have you got some pieces of wool? Er... get an old blanket, 180 00:14:39,775 --> 00:14:42,475 We'll tear it into strips. Mr. MacIntyre, go about the fire. 181 00:14:42,499 --> 00:14:44,676 Get me the basin first, please. 182 00:14:44,777 --> 00:14:47,177 Martha, you'd better bring some towels. 183 00:14:47,278 --> 00:14:49,178 Just set it right here. 184 00:14:49,879 --> 00:14:52,379 Help Martha first, please. Take that towel. 185 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:56,780 Take the other end of it, Martha. 186 00:14:58,781 --> 00:15:00,381 Hold it over the basin. 187 00:15:01,082 --> 00:15:03,282 Now you keep fixing these strips... 188 00:15:03,483 --> 00:15:05,983 ...and I'll put them on Dorrie just as fast as you get them ready. 189 00:15:06,284 --> 00:15:08,084 Here, give me that end. 190 00:15:08,485 --> 00:15:09,885 Lift the basin, Martha. 191 00:15:10,285 --> 00:15:11,880 Twist it now, twist it hard. 192 00:15:11,931 --> 00:15:15,581 There mustn't be any water in that wool or it will scald her skin. 193 00:15:15,682 --> 00:15:18,082 Remember, every drop of water out. 194 00:15:18,123 --> 00:15:19,883 There, now do it like that. 195 00:15:19,884 --> 00:15:21,684 Hurry, get another one ready. 196 00:15:21,685 --> 00:15:23,585 You'll have to keep doing this whenever they lose their heat. 197 00:15:25,486 --> 00:15:28,986 Now, Dorrie, this is going to feel hot, but it won't burn you. 198 00:15:30,087 --> 00:15:31,587 Don't you be frightened. 199 00:15:32,388 --> 00:15:34,888 I'm going to wrap you all up in hot rags. 200 00:15:49,489 --> 00:15:51,389 I won't need any more, Martha. 201 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:08,300 There. 202 00:16:08,391 --> 00:16:10,691 Now we'll keep the heat in. 203 00:16:13,092 --> 00:16:14,892 Feeling better, Dorrie? 204 00:16:17,393 --> 00:16:19,193 Dorrie. 205 00:16:19,594 --> 00:16:21,494 She's asleep. 206 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,395 Hello, Kevin! 207 00:16:45,396 --> 00:16:49,496 Well, well, well, how are you, my boy? 208 00:16:49,527 --> 00:16:53,297 Hello, Mother Kenny! My, you look younger that ever. 209 00:16:53,298 --> 00:16:57,000 - It's wonderful to have you here again. - Well, the Army hasn't done you any harm. 210 00:16:57,021 --> 00:16:59,101 But it feels pretty good to get out of it. 211 00:16:59,122 --> 00:17:02,702 This country suits me. I'm never going to wear a uniform again. 212 00:17:02,703 --> 00:17:04,800 - We were expecting you last night. - Oh? 213 00:17:05,401 --> 00:17:08,999 - Where's Elizabeth? - Oh, we've hardly seen her for ten days. 214 00:17:09,020 --> 00:17:11,700 Infantile paralysis. She's got five cases now. 215 00:17:11,721 --> 00:17:14,101 I don't know what she's going to do if it spreads any more. 216 00:17:16,802 --> 00:17:19,402 Well, if you want an epidemic, just send for me. 217 00:17:19,403 --> 00:17:22,203 - What did you say it was? - Infantile paralysis. 218 00:17:23,904 --> 00:17:26,004 - That's bad, isn't it? - It's terrible. 219 00:17:26,035 --> 00:17:28,905 It would break your heart to see those children. 220 00:17:29,999 --> 00:17:33,606 - Is it contagious? - Nobody seems to know anything about it. 221 00:17:35,207 --> 00:17:37,107 Here she comes. 222 00:17:42,108 --> 00:17:43,908 Get back from the window, she'll see you. 223 00:17:43,999 --> 00:17:47,700 Now remember what you have to do. Go on now, my boy, get in the pantry. 224 00:17:47,721 --> 00:17:49,700 Come on now, Mary, get busy. Act as though you're doing something. 225 00:17:49,701 --> 00:17:51,801 I still think it's mean. 226 00:17:51,832 --> 00:17:54,600 Oh, come on, Mary. Cut a slice of bread, 227 00:17:54,631 --> 00:17:57,500 pour a cup of tea, but whatever you do, do it naturally. 228 00:17:57,642 --> 00:17:59,102 - Michael. - Hm? 229 00:18:06,703 --> 00:18:08,100 Is he here yet? 230 00:18:08,101 --> 00:18:10,200 Are you sure he was to arrive here today? 231 00:18:10,224 --> 00:18:13,444 Well, you saw his letter. 232 00:18:15,045 --> 00:18:17,945 - Any more cases, dear? - No, thank goodness. 233 00:18:18,946 --> 00:18:20,646 How's the little Benson girl? 234 00:18:20,697 --> 00:18:23,147 Only fair, Mother. I'm going over there again tonight. 235 00:18:23,748 --> 00:18:25,848 Got to get on the McIntyres first. 236 00:18:26,449 --> 00:18:27,749 What about Kevin? 237 00:18:27,770 --> 00:18:30,850 Oh, dear, why does that man have to come at a time like this? 238 00:18:30,871 --> 00:18:32,900 - Elizabeth! - I mean it. 239 00:18:34,601 --> 00:18:36,700 It's a fine way to talk about a fine boy like Captain Connors... 240 00:18:36,721 --> 00:18:38,600 ...fighting in India for the motherland. 241 00:18:38,601 --> 00:18:43,701 Nonsense, Father. He was just sitting on a small bare hill in Afghanistan. 242 00:18:43,722 --> 00:18:46,200 Now what would he say if he heard that? 243 00:18:46,201 --> 00:18:47,370 That's what he told me. 244 00:18:47,391 --> 00:18:50,571 Now don't you talk about him like that, you know you want to see him. 245 00:18:50,572 --> 00:18:54,700 Of course I do, I'm dying to see him. But look at me, I'm a sight. 246 00:18:54,701 --> 00:18:56,249 I don't want things to happen this time... 247 00:18:56,271 --> 00:18:58,100 ...the way they happened the last time he was here. 248 00:18:58,501 --> 00:19:01,000 There's some nice cold mutton in the pantry. 249 00:19:01,031 --> 00:19:03,301 - Don't you want to get it? - All I want is a cup of tea. 250 00:19:05,302 --> 00:19:07,300 Hm, why the best china? 251 00:19:09,201 --> 00:19:10,901 Pretty, isn't it? 252 00:19:17,102 --> 00:19:20,902 Oh, dear, I've misplaced my spectacles somewhere. 253 00:19:20,903 --> 00:19:24,700 Now where is... Oh, yes, I was fixing a shelf in the pantry. 254 00:19:24,701 --> 00:19:26,601 Elizabeth, would you mind ge... 255 00:19:28,602 --> 00:19:30,102 Thank you. 256 00:19:32,403 --> 00:19:34,503 Think I will have some of that mutton. 257 00:19:49,304 --> 00:19:51,904 Kevin, I don't think you should come with me. 258 00:19:51,935 --> 00:19:54,900 Look, darling, you said you've only found one case in a family... 259 00:19:54,931 --> 00:19:56,700 ...and then in houses miles apart. 260 00:19:56,991 --> 00:19:59,401 That doesn't prove it isn't catching. 261 00:19:59,402 --> 00:20:02,900 My only chance of getting any attention from you is to get sick myself, eh? 262 00:20:02,931 --> 00:20:03,991 Get in. 263 00:20:05,592 --> 00:20:08,592 I want to see Dorrie McIntyre. Come on, boy. 264 00:20:09,193 --> 00:20:10,593 Whoa. 265 00:20:15,694 --> 00:20:16,994 Whoa! 266 00:20:16,995 --> 00:20:19,895 Nurse Kenny, my mother wants you to come as quick as you can. 267 00:20:19,936 --> 00:20:21,496 What's happened to her, Jordy? 268 00:20:21,517 --> 00:20:23,297 It's my brother, he's got it. 269 00:20:23,999 --> 00:20:24,999 Oh... 270 00:20:25,300 --> 00:20:26,900 Is he in much pain? 271 00:20:26,941 --> 00:20:29,551 Yes, ma'am, his back's all bent and he can't hardly breathe. 272 00:20:29,572 --> 00:20:32,200 My mom told me to fetch you. Will you come? 273 00:20:32,231 --> 00:20:34,501 Yes, Jordy, I'll come. 274 00:20:39,702 --> 00:20:41,400 But, Liz, can't I drive you? 275 00:20:41,421 --> 00:20:43,841 If it's contagious, it's contagious this time. 276 00:20:43,862 --> 00:20:47,342 Oh, would you go on to the McIntyres? Tell them I'll be along as soon as I can. 277 00:20:51,743 --> 00:20:54,143 I'll drive over with Jordy, you can bring me back. 278 00:20:54,164 --> 00:20:55,444 Giddy up! 279 00:21:08,245 --> 00:21:11,645 Come on, boy. Take your time. 280 00:21:14,546 --> 00:21:17,146 Dorrie, that's exactly what happened. 281 00:21:17,147 --> 00:21:19,357 Just when I was all ready for a buggy ride, 282 00:21:19,378 --> 00:21:22,658 Nurse Kenny rode off with another chap, left me flat. 283 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:25,759 Dorrie here is just as bad, Nurse Kenny. 284 00:21:25,790 --> 00:21:28,380 When I walked in here she didn't even remember me. 285 00:21:28,399 --> 00:21:30,581 Oh, you remember him, don't you, Dorrie? 286 00:21:30,599 --> 00:21:32,000 No, I don't. 287 00:21:32,031 --> 00:21:34,901 Why, only three years ago you went to sleep in my arms. 288 00:21:34,922 --> 00:21:36,100 No, I didn't. 289 00:21:36,101 --> 00:21:38,700 He's the man that brought your little brother and sister. 290 00:21:38,731 --> 00:21:40,301 No, he didn't. 291 00:21:40,802 --> 00:21:43,402 - By the way, where are the twins? - They're over at my sister-in-law's. 292 00:21:43,433 --> 00:21:46,103 Nurse Kenny was scared it might be catching. 293 00:21:46,144 --> 00:21:47,704 Does that hurt, Dorrie? 294 00:21:47,755 --> 00:21:50,405 - No. - You're a good girl. 295 00:21:50,426 --> 00:21:54,406 Oh, she has been a good girl, Nurse Kenny. So still and patient. 296 00:21:54,437 --> 00:21:57,507 Even when we changed the hot rags she never stirred. 297 00:21:57,538 --> 00:22:00,008 And I don't think she's going to need any more hot rags. 298 00:22:00,209 --> 00:22:04,609 The spasms are all gone. These muscles look fine, relaxed. 299 00:22:04,630 --> 00:22:07,510 You'll be dancing around like a kangaroo in a few days. 300 00:22:07,531 --> 00:22:10,011 - Will you dance with me, Dorrie? - Don't know how to dance. 301 00:22:10,032 --> 00:22:14,112 Well, I'll teach you. And Captain Connors is a wonderful dancer. 302 00:22:14,613 --> 00:22:16,600 I don't know how she knows. 303 00:22:16,621 --> 00:22:18,101 You always thought you were. 304 00:22:19,202 --> 00:22:21,502 Well, Dorrie, I don't think you'll need me anymore. 305 00:22:21,533 --> 00:22:23,603 - Can she get up now? - Yes, for a little while. 306 00:22:23,634 --> 00:22:25,424 Sit up, dear, we'll put your nightie on. 307 00:22:27,225 --> 00:22:29,225 All the way up, dear. 308 00:22:29,226 --> 00:22:32,000 Dorrie, you mustn't tease Nurse Kenny that way. Come on, sit up. 309 00:22:32,301 --> 00:22:33,701 Here's your nightie. 310 00:22:33,732 --> 00:22:35,402 - Dorrie... - Just a minute. 311 00:22:35,443 --> 00:22:37,103 Don't you want to sit up, Dorrie? 312 00:22:37,104 --> 00:22:38,604 Yes. 313 00:22:40,105 --> 00:22:42,000 Just lie still, dear. 314 00:22:52,001 --> 00:22:53,601 Now do that yourself. 315 00:22:53,672 --> 00:22:57,302 Put your knee up, dear. That's the first thing a little girl does when she walks. 316 00:22:58,703 --> 00:23:01,703 Pull it up, darling. Try, dear. 317 00:23:04,604 --> 00:23:07,204 - Try hard. - I can't. 318 00:23:09,305 --> 00:23:12,405 Move your leg, dear... just move it. 319 00:23:13,006 --> 00:23:14,300 I can't. 320 00:23:14,332 --> 00:23:16,201 - She's paralyzed! - Martha! 321 00:23:24,302 --> 00:23:26,402 Does this leg feel numb, Dorrie? 322 00:23:26,453 --> 00:23:28,103 It feels funny. 323 00:23:28,184 --> 00:23:30,000 Of course it does. 324 00:23:30,601 --> 00:23:33,001 See how I'm moving your leg now, Dorrie? 325 00:23:33,702 --> 00:23:35,702 It's as if you were walking in bed. 326 00:23:37,303 --> 00:23:39,803 Those legs look perfectly normal to me. 327 00:23:42,404 --> 00:23:44,904 You know, Dorrie, I think you're just lazy. 328 00:23:45,305 --> 00:23:48,305 I think you want me to move your legs for you when you walk. 329 00:23:49,506 --> 00:23:51,906 That's a silly idea, isn't it? 330 00:23:54,207 --> 00:23:55,408 There now. 331 00:23:55,408 --> 00:23:57,908 I'm tired of walking for you. You do it for yourself. 332 00:24:00,009 --> 00:24:02,009 Lift your legs as if you were walking, Dorrie. 333 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,210 - Try, Dorrie! - I can't, I can't... 334 00:24:09,231 --> 00:24:14,211 Oh, my baby! She's paralyzed! 335 00:24:26,512 --> 00:24:29,212 Teach me how to dance, Nurse Kenny. 336 00:24:29,263 --> 00:24:32,013 Oh, my baby! My baby! 337 00:24:40,514 --> 00:24:42,414 You know what I think the trouble is? 338 00:24:42,815 --> 00:24:46,000 I think you've forgotten how to walk. You've been in bed so long. 339 00:24:46,001 --> 00:24:49,301 I didn't forget. My legs just won't do it. 340 00:24:50,302 --> 00:24:53,202 Very well, then, we'll blame your legs. 341 00:24:53,253 --> 00:24:56,503 Dorrie didn't forget, they forgot. 342 00:24:58,304 --> 00:25:02,304 Look at those wicked legs. They've forgotten how to walk. 343 00:25:03,505 --> 00:25:05,805 Now I'm going to have to teach them all over again. 344 00:25:07,806 --> 00:25:10,306 How can I teach them when they haven't got ears? 345 00:25:11,607 --> 00:25:15,307 You know, Dorrie, you should have grown ears on your legs. 346 00:25:17,408 --> 00:25:20,508 Do you know how people talk to each other when they haven't got ears? 347 00:25:21,309 --> 00:25:23,609 They talk with their hands. 348 00:25:26,410 --> 00:25:28,209 That's what we're going to do. 349 00:25:34,211 --> 00:25:36,211 Oh, you don't know it, Dorrie... 350 00:25:36,412 --> 00:25:39,412 but I'm scolding away at these muscles. 351 00:25:43,113 --> 00:25:47,713 Yes, I'm giving them such a talking to. 352 00:25:50,614 --> 00:25:53,514 Dorrie, one of them just answered back. 353 00:25:53,655 --> 00:25:55,515 What did it say? 354 00:25:55,916 --> 00:25:58,916 It said it couldn't seem to remember. 355 00:25:58,999 --> 00:26:01,499 I told it it had to remember. 356 00:26:01,521 --> 00:26:04,801 Think, dear, think hard. Try to remember. 357 00:26:04,832 --> 00:26:07,302 Please, Martha, this has nothing to do with her memory. 358 00:26:07,333 --> 00:26:09,800 Right now I don't want her to think of a thing. 359 00:26:11,301 --> 00:26:14,201 - Look. - What is it? 360 00:26:14,272 --> 00:26:18,202 Dorrie, your leg just told me something. 361 00:26:18,903 --> 00:26:21,303 It's beginning to think it can remember. 362 00:26:25,604 --> 00:26:27,999 Now you think, Dorrie. 363 00:26:28,020 --> 00:26:29,800 Think with it. 364 00:26:31,601 --> 00:26:34,001 Think of pulling from here. 365 00:26:50,602 --> 00:26:52,702 Pulling from here, Dorrie. 366 00:26:55,103 --> 00:26:57,000 Now lift your leg. 367 00:26:59,001 --> 00:27:00,800 Lift your leg. 368 00:27:13,101 --> 00:27:15,301 You wicked leg. 369 00:27:15,702 --> 00:27:17,702 Oh, I wouldn't scold it, Dorrie. 370 00:27:18,603 --> 00:27:21,303 The last thing it said to me was that it was going to be good. 371 00:27:25,404 --> 00:27:27,204 You're going to walk again, Dorrie. 372 00:27:27,305 --> 00:27:29,000 And dance too. 373 00:27:29,031 --> 00:27:31,001 It's going to take time. 374 00:27:31,502 --> 00:27:33,202 That's enough for today. 375 00:27:41,603 --> 00:27:43,903 Oh, Kevin, I was scared. 376 00:27:44,504 --> 00:27:48,204 I sort of thought so. But Dorrie didn't know it. 377 00:27:48,255 --> 00:27:49,605 Neither did her mother. 378 00:27:49,999 --> 00:27:53,900 Liz, before Dorrie moved her leg, you told me to look. 379 00:27:53,941 --> 00:27:56,751 - What was I supposed to see? - The tendon. 380 00:27:56,772 --> 00:27:58,952 It began to stand out, just below the knee. 381 00:27:58,973 --> 00:28:01,253 Then I knew the muscle wasn't paralyzed. 382 00:28:01,284 --> 00:28:03,554 I'd been trying to get that reflex. 383 00:28:03,700 --> 00:28:07,100 Of course if I'd been a doctor I would have known what to do in the first place. 384 00:28:07,601 --> 00:28:09,900 Just as well I found out in my first case. 385 00:28:09,941 --> 00:28:12,301 I may run up against the same thing with the others. 386 00:28:12,302 --> 00:28:16,402 - How's Jordy's brother? - Pretty bad. 387 00:28:18,303 --> 00:28:20,903 You know, there's sometimes I get scared. 388 00:28:22,804 --> 00:28:25,604 What made you take up nursing in the first place? 389 00:28:26,305 --> 00:28:28,200 I liked nursing. 390 00:28:29,401 --> 00:28:31,000 Where is it going to end? 391 00:28:31,801 --> 00:28:34,201 Kevin, what are you afraid of? 392 00:28:35,002 --> 00:28:37,302 You... and nursing. 393 00:28:37,353 --> 00:28:40,303 Oh, darling, don't be ridiculous. 394 00:28:40,304 --> 00:28:42,904 I told you I'd give it up when you came back. 395 00:28:42,995 --> 00:28:46,205 - Well, I'm here. - And I'm going to marry you. 396 00:28:46,266 --> 00:28:49,200 - When? - As soon as these children are well. 397 00:28:49,231 --> 00:28:51,761 - No more cases? - No more cases. 398 00:28:51,782 --> 00:28:54,162 - No more babies? - No more ba... 399 00:28:54,163 --> 00:28:56,363 - Well... - Except our own? 400 00:29:22,664 --> 00:29:24,964 - Cold feet? - They're freezing. 401 00:29:24,965 --> 00:29:26,885 - Well, you don't know him. - Oh... 402 00:29:26,886 --> 00:29:29,400 Oh, Kevin, do you mind if I see him alone first? 403 00:29:29,431 --> 00:29:31,501 Sure, I don't want to see him. 404 00:29:31,532 --> 00:29:34,402 - I still don't see why you have to. - I'll only be two minutes. 405 00:29:34,403 --> 00:29:37,204 Alright, Dorrie and I will just wait two minutes. Come on, Dorrie. 406 00:29:42,004 --> 00:29:44,704 Well, Elizabeth! You look as if you're going to a party. 407 00:29:44,799 --> 00:29:47,105 - You like it? - Yes... 408 00:29:47,106 --> 00:29:49,606 Have a chicken leg? I'm just eating my lunch. 409 00:29:49,627 --> 00:29:51,007 - Well, you eat it. - Thank you. 410 00:29:51,208 --> 00:29:53,108 - Have a pickle? - No, thank you. 411 00:29:53,109 --> 00:29:56,109 Dr. McDonnell, you're going to be awful disappointed in me. 412 00:29:56,110 --> 00:29:58,999 Oh, no, Elizabeth, I have no doubt you did the right thing. 413 00:29:59,901 --> 00:30:03,200 - You knew about it all the time? - Why, of course! 414 00:30:03,241 --> 00:30:06,401 Well... who told you? 415 00:30:06,402 --> 00:30:08,702 You did! You sent me the telegram, didn't you? 416 00:30:09,403 --> 00:30:12,900 - Oh, dear, this has nothing to do with it. - Infantile paralysis is a frightening thing. 417 00:30:12,931 --> 00:30:15,180 I asked Dr. Brack to go but he simply didn't have time. 418 00:30:15,199 --> 00:30:17,100 With so many cases here it was almost an epidemic. 419 00:30:17,121 --> 00:30:19,800 - Thank goodness you had only one. - I had six. 420 00:30:21,001 --> 00:30:22,901 - Six? - Six. 421 00:30:23,302 --> 00:30:24,902 Oh, dear! 422 00:30:24,903 --> 00:30:27,680 Just to get things straight as to why I'm here. 423 00:30:27,699 --> 00:30:30,381 - There's a young man outside... - How many of these cases did you lose? 424 00:30:31,399 --> 00:30:33,282 How many of the children died? 425 00:30:33,283 --> 00:30:34,883 Why, none. 426 00:30:36,684 --> 00:30:40,000 Dr. McDonnell, I want you to meet a young man I've brought to the hospital. 427 00:30:40,021 --> 00:30:42,200 - He's waiting outside. - I'll examine him later. 428 00:30:42,201 --> 00:30:44,501 Tell me. What percentage of crippling did you have? 429 00:30:44,802 --> 00:30:47,002 How many of the children are deformed? 430 00:30:47,033 --> 00:30:48,503 Why, not any! 431 00:30:48,524 --> 00:30:50,400 You mean to say you had five more cases... 432 00:30:50,431 --> 00:30:53,301 ...like the one you described in your telegram and they all recovered? 433 00:30:53,362 --> 00:30:56,000 - Yes. - That's fantastic. 434 00:30:56,021 --> 00:30:57,901 Oh, but I'm still working on my last case. 435 00:30:57,932 --> 00:31:00,802 I'm not satisfied with the way he walks. I'm still reeducating his muscles. 436 00:31:00,803 --> 00:31:03,603 - You're doing what to his muscles? - Teaching them to work again. 437 00:31:03,604 --> 00:31:06,404 I don't know how to put it. Teaching, reeducating... 438 00:31:06,435 --> 00:31:07,905 You must know all about it. 439 00:31:07,936 --> 00:31:10,300 Well, I only did what you told me to do in the telegram! 440 00:31:10,351 --> 00:31:12,501 What did I tell you to do in the telegram? 441 00:31:12,602 --> 00:31:15,700 Treat the symptoms. For spasm, moist heat. 442 00:31:15,773 --> 00:31:18,400 Then I got an awful shock when I found I had to reeducate the muscles. 443 00:31:18,401 --> 00:31:19,901 You didn't know about that. 444 00:31:19,922 --> 00:31:23,100 Reeducation, moist heat, spasm, there's not one of those terms in this book... 445 00:31:23,141 --> 00:31:25,200 ...and this is the standard work in infantile paralysis. 446 00:31:25,221 --> 00:31:27,001 Sir Robert Jenkins, it's Brack's Bible. 447 00:31:27,042 --> 00:31:28,502 May I see it? 448 00:31:29,003 --> 00:31:31,200 You're going to see something else first. Come along with me. 449 00:31:31,501 --> 00:31:33,501 Well, I don't know, but one of us is crazy. 450 00:31:34,702 --> 00:31:36,902 - Liz! - How do you do? Be with you in a moment. 451 00:31:45,003 --> 00:31:48,300 Now these are cases of infantile paralysis that ran true to form. 452 00:31:51,401 --> 00:31:53,801 - Hello, Doctor. - Hello, nurse, how's Becky? 453 00:31:53,852 --> 00:31:55,652 Oh, Becky's fine today. 454 00:31:56,353 --> 00:31:59,153 Hello, Dr. McDonnell. 455 00:31:59,184 --> 00:32:00,654 Hello, David. 456 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,999 Are they getting better? 457 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,500 They get worse instead of better. 458 00:32:08,601 --> 00:32:12,001 Eighty-eight out of every hundred cases finish this way. 459 00:32:23,502 --> 00:32:26,500 Let's go over this again. You had six cases and they all recovered. 460 00:32:26,521 --> 00:32:28,121 - Yes. - That's fantastic. 461 00:32:28,122 --> 00:32:30,100 - Let's check the symptoms. Headache? - That's right. 462 00:32:30,121 --> 00:32:31,121 - Fever? - Yes. 463 00:32:31,142 --> 00:32:33,900 Muscular pain, afraid to be touched? Limbs twisted? 464 00:32:33,921 --> 00:32:35,180 - Back arched? - Yes. 465 00:32:35,199 --> 00:32:37,281 - What about breathing, any trouble? - One case. 466 00:32:37,299 --> 00:32:38,800 - That's bulbar, it's very bad. - Liz! 467 00:32:38,951 --> 00:32:40,201 Be with you in a moment. 468 00:32:40,802 --> 00:32:44,102 It couldn't be a clearer picture, Elizabeth. 469 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,503 There's infantile paralysis in the acute stage. 470 00:32:48,504 --> 00:32:49,780 - Is that what you saw? - Yes, yes... 471 00:32:49,799 --> 00:32:51,400 That's exactly like my second case. 472 00:32:51,999 --> 00:32:54,000 That's like the little Benson girl. 473 00:32:54,031 --> 00:32:55,800 Yes, those same muscles were shortened. 474 00:32:56,501 --> 00:32:58,500 - Shortened? - They were in spasm. 475 00:32:59,101 --> 00:33:01,501 You told me to treat the symptoms, that's all I did. 476 00:33:02,402 --> 00:33:03,902 That's what you think. 477 00:33:05,803 --> 00:33:08,700 Elizabeth, I don't think you realize what you've done. 478 00:33:11,001 --> 00:33:13,301 Of course I may be wrong, I'm just a general practitioner. 479 00:33:13,602 --> 00:33:16,600 Dr. Brack will know, it's his field. We'd better go to his office right away. 480 00:33:17,801 --> 00:33:20,700 Brack's made a study of polio. He's one of the best men in the country. 481 00:33:20,701 --> 00:33:22,801 - Dr. McDonnell! - I'll be with you in a moment. 482 00:33:29,002 --> 00:33:31,202 We'll stop this. 483 00:33:35,403 --> 00:33:37,703 Oh,no, I shall never forget that telegram. 484 00:33:37,994 --> 00:33:40,904 McDonnell and I agreed it was a model of brevity. 485 00:33:40,925 --> 00:33:42,600 About as concise a description... 486 00:33:42,621 --> 00:33:45,501 ...of the classical symptoms of poliomyolitis that I've ever seen. 487 00:33:45,522 --> 00:33:46,780 Oh, thank you, Dr. Brack. 488 00:33:46,799 --> 00:33:50,181 Come and sit down. I want to hear everything that happened. 489 00:33:50,199 --> 00:33:51,700 - It was a little girl, wasn't it? - Yes. 490 00:33:51,721 --> 00:33:53,900 Tragic business. Is she badly crippled? 491 00:33:53,901 --> 00:33:55,800 - No... - Fine, fine. 492 00:33:56,101 --> 00:33:58,401 You were lucky only one case developed. 493 00:33:58,472 --> 00:34:00,102 She had six cases. 494 00:34:00,603 --> 00:34:02,203 Really? 495 00:34:02,204 --> 00:34:04,904 Well, but... why weren't they reported? 496 00:34:04,905 --> 00:34:07,505 They have all recovered and there is no crippling. 497 00:34:08,406 --> 00:34:11,000 - Extraordinary. - No crippling, Brack. 498 00:34:11,101 --> 00:34:17,100 I er... I don't know another instance of an epidemic that was so light. 499 00:34:17,132 --> 00:34:19,900 I wouldn't call it exactly light, Dr. Brack. 500 00:34:19,951 --> 00:34:22,100 I don't think you've got the point yet, Doctor. 501 00:34:22,131 --> 00:34:25,201 I may be wrong, I'm no expert, but if I have my facts right... 502 00:34:25,242 --> 00:34:29,302 Nurse Kenny has discovered an entirely new treatment for infantile paralysis. 503 00:34:29,343 --> 00:34:31,303 And what's more, it's successful. 504 00:34:31,334 --> 00:34:35,104 Well, offhand, McDonnell, I should say you haven't got your facts right. 505 00:34:35,105 --> 00:34:37,905 However, let's hear what they are. Sit down, Nurse Kenny. 506 00:34:37,936 --> 00:34:39,956 - Sit down. - You sit down. 507 00:34:40,757 --> 00:34:44,200 You mustn't mind my skepticism. McDonnell here is quite a joker. 508 00:34:44,231 --> 00:34:46,501 I'm never sure he's not trying to pull my leg. 509 00:34:46,502 --> 00:34:48,302 Now tell me, what did you do? 510 00:34:49,003 --> 00:34:52,400 Well, first I treated the shortened muscles for spasm. 511 00:34:52,901 --> 00:34:55,001 - Spasm? - Spasm. 512 00:34:55,602 --> 00:34:56,902 And then what? 513 00:34:57,303 --> 00:34:59,403 Then I thought they were well, but they weren't. 514 00:34:59,434 --> 00:35:01,604 You found some muscles were paralyzed. 515 00:35:01,999 --> 00:35:04,600 Well, there was an awful moment when I thought they were. 516 00:35:04,601 --> 00:35:06,401 What do you mean thought they were? Weren't they? 517 00:35:06,552 --> 00:35:08,999 Well, they were disconnected from the brain. 518 00:35:09,700 --> 00:35:13,100 Alienated. They certainly didn't work. 519 00:35:13,501 --> 00:35:16,100 Oh, I see... alienated. 520 00:35:16,121 --> 00:35:18,701 Oh, it wasn't the sick muscles that were alienated. 521 00:35:18,722 --> 00:35:19,752 It was the other ones. 522 00:35:19,773 --> 00:35:22,600 You hear that, McDonnell, the other ones were alienated. 523 00:35:22,641 --> 00:35:23,900 Hm-hmm. 524 00:35:23,901 --> 00:35:25,600 And so, then what did you do? 525 00:35:25,631 --> 00:35:27,999 Well, then I found there was still some reflex. 526 00:35:28,020 --> 00:35:30,300 So I proceeded to reeducate the muscles. 527 00:35:31,701 --> 00:35:35,300 And they lived happily ever after. 528 00:35:36,501 --> 00:35:38,701 McDonnell, are you serious about this? 529 00:35:39,002 --> 00:35:40,702 I certainly am. 530 00:35:41,203 --> 00:35:43,603 Then you're a bigger fool than I thought you were. 531 00:35:44,304 --> 00:35:46,304 Nurse Kenny, I don't want to hurt your feelings. 532 00:35:46,355 --> 00:35:48,305 I have no doubt you did a fine job. 533 00:35:48,336 --> 00:35:52,480 But in future it might be useful for you to know just what really happens in polio. 534 00:35:52,499 --> 00:35:56,181 The point is, Brack, that what happens didn't happen. 535 00:35:56,199 --> 00:35:57,882 Oh, we'll come to that in a minute, Doctor. 536 00:35:57,899 --> 00:35:59,583 Come here. 537 00:36:01,584 --> 00:36:05,900 I use this model to demonstrate how infantile paralysis produces deformity. 538 00:36:06,901 --> 00:36:09,301 Now, this is the normal functioning of the leg. 539 00:36:09,352 --> 00:36:12,802 You see, the muscles pull against each other in pairs. 540 00:36:12,833 --> 00:36:15,003 Now what happens in infantile paralysis? 541 00:36:15,404 --> 00:36:19,704 Assume that these muscles become paralyzed and can't pull back as they should. 542 00:36:20,105 --> 00:36:24,300 Then these normal muscles contract, and meeting no resistance, 543 00:36:24,331 --> 00:36:27,101 pull the leg back into a deformed position. 544 00:36:27,102 --> 00:36:28,800 - Is that what you saw in your patient? - Yes. 545 00:36:28,891 --> 00:36:32,901 It becomes impossible to straighten the leg and it may become a permanent deformity. 546 00:36:33,302 --> 00:36:34,900 What have you to say to that, Elizabeth? 547 00:36:34,901 --> 00:36:39,100 - You say these muscles are sick. - Paralyzed. 548 00:36:39,999 --> 00:36:41,900 But if they were not paralyzed, 549 00:36:41,931 --> 00:36:45,101 if they were not sick at all, if they were perfectly normal, 550 00:36:45,102 --> 00:36:49,202 and these muscles were sick, shortened, being drawn up in spasm, 551 00:36:49,233 --> 00:36:52,803 they would contract and you would ge the same deformity, wouldn't you? 552 00:36:52,804 --> 00:36:55,104 - Exactly what occurred to me. - Nonsense. 553 00:36:55,905 --> 00:36:59,300 You're trying to find a reason for an irrational concept. 554 00:37:00,001 --> 00:37:01,441 I think it's quite rational. 555 00:37:01,462 --> 00:37:04,100 You can't take a theory that's been accepted for half a century... 556 00:37:04,131 --> 00:37:05,801 ...and turn it upside down like that. 557 00:37:06,202 --> 00:37:09,702 Spasm, reeducation, alienation, I don't know what they mean. 558 00:37:09,733 --> 00:37:11,703 How could you, Brack, they're not in the books. 559 00:37:11,734 --> 00:37:13,900 I have a notion Nurse Kenny knows what they mean. 560 00:37:13,921 --> 00:37:15,401 Now, just a minute, Doctor. 561 00:37:15,442 --> 00:37:17,202 If her theories were correct, 562 00:37:17,243 --> 00:37:21,000 She'd have discovered not a new treatment but an entirely new disease. 563 00:37:21,031 --> 00:37:23,440 Well, I have no objection to her discovering a new disease... 564 00:37:23,461 --> 00:37:24,999 ...so long as she can cure it. 565 00:37:25,030 --> 00:37:26,750 Well, I don't want to be rude, 566 00:37:26,771 --> 00:37:29,000 but are we to take Nurse Kenny's word against Sir Robert Jenkins'? 567 00:37:29,022 --> 00:37:30,022 Oh, no! 568 00:37:30,023 --> 00:37:32,523 Obviously you can't take her word when you haven't heard it. 569 00:37:32,924 --> 00:37:37,224 Now, I'm no orthopedic man, but I think this is very important. 570 00:37:37,275 --> 00:37:40,225 I'm asking you to sit down and to listen to what she did. 571 00:37:40,996 --> 00:37:43,800 Oh... very well, very well. 572 00:37:52,201 --> 00:37:54,601 Oh, sorry. 573 00:37:57,602 --> 00:37:59,602 Where's Miss Kenny? 574 00:37:59,903 --> 00:38:02,303 Well, it's about time to find out, Dorrie. 575 00:38:03,504 --> 00:38:04,604 Come on. 576 00:38:09,005 --> 00:38:12,880 Let me see if I can sum up the interpretation... 577 00:38:12,899 --> 00:38:15,500 ...you put on the symptoms you observed. 578 00:38:16,399 --> 00:38:19,999 First you say that the muscle we call sick is not sick. 579 00:38:20,030 --> 00:38:22,200 That it's the opposing muscle that's affected. 580 00:38:23,901 --> 00:38:28,101 Secondly, you say that the sick muscles do not become paralyzed, 581 00:38:28,102 --> 00:38:32,302 but that the opposing muscles, being pulled out of their normal resting length, 582 00:38:32,333 --> 00:38:33,803 lose their function. 583 00:38:33,834 --> 00:38:35,604 become alienated, as you put it. 584 00:38:35,805 --> 00:38:37,255 Yes, Doctor. 585 00:38:37,556 --> 00:38:41,600 Third, you believe that these apparently paralyzed muscles... 586 00:38:41,641 --> 00:38:45,601 ...can have their functions restored by stimulating certain reflexes. 587 00:38:45,632 --> 00:38:47,802 What you call reeducation. 588 00:38:47,899 --> 00:38:49,303 That's it, Doctor. 589 00:38:50,604 --> 00:38:55,904 Well, yes, these certainly are revolutionary discoveries. 590 00:38:55,999 --> 00:38:58,905 Then you do think I found a way to help these children. 591 00:38:58,996 --> 00:39:01,506 No, you've wasted two hours of my time. 592 00:39:01,537 --> 00:39:04,907 Before you try to revolutionize medicine you should learn a little more about it. 593 00:39:04,938 --> 00:39:07,608 Medical science is a business of facts, not fancies. 594 00:39:07,639 --> 00:39:10,200 - Now, surely, Brack... - Just a minute, Doctor. 595 00:39:10,231 --> 00:39:13,101 It's taken me twenty years to collect this library. 596 00:39:13,702 --> 00:39:16,902 Every book on this section is by an authority on polio. 597 00:39:17,303 --> 00:39:19,903 Spasm, reeducation, alienation, 598 00:39:19,924 --> 00:39:22,254 you won't find one of those terms in any of those books. 599 00:39:22,275 --> 00:39:24,300 They deal with facts, and that's what we need, facts. 600 00:39:24,331 --> 00:39:26,501 But that's what we are here for. 601 00:39:26,532 --> 00:39:29,200 Nurse Kenny's brought a few facts and they're new ones. 602 00:39:29,231 --> 00:39:31,600 You only seem to recognize the fact that is printed in the book. 603 00:39:31,631 --> 00:39:33,801 - She did something. - She did something very dangerous... 604 00:39:33,832 --> 00:39:35,200 ...and you shouldn't encourage it. 605 00:39:35,221 --> 00:39:38,100 There is no treatment for the acute stage. 606 00:39:38,131 --> 00:39:41,301 The fight against polio is the fight against frightful deformity. 607 00:39:41,452 --> 00:39:45,400 And the only way that offers any hope is prompt and complete immobilization. 608 00:39:45,421 --> 00:39:46,421 How, Doctor? 609 00:39:46,442 --> 00:39:49,200 Well, how do you immobilize a broken leg? You put it in splints, don't you? 610 00:39:49,251 --> 00:39:50,880 But the children must be in agony. 611 00:39:50,881 --> 00:39:53,781 Can there be any agony worse than lifelong deformity? 612 00:39:54,382 --> 00:39:57,582 But if you make the arms and legs rigid so the child can't move, 613 00:39:57,599 --> 00:39:59,683 how can it ever learn to walk again? 614 00:39:59,984 --> 00:40:01,784 My dear, girl... 615 00:40:02,585 --> 00:40:03,985 Yes? 616 00:40:06,486 --> 00:40:07,986 He can do it now, Dr. Brack. 617 00:40:08,037 --> 00:40:11,880 I told him he could show you tomorrow, but he insisted on coming right now. 618 00:40:11,908 --> 00:40:15,140 Oh, excellent, I want to see that. You're very clever, David. 619 00:40:16,001 --> 00:40:17,901 Go ahead, you've got an audience. 620 00:40:17,902 --> 00:40:20,802 - Easy, David, easy. - Go, go, David, kick as hard as you can! 621 00:40:22,903 --> 00:40:24,503 Oh, I'm sorry, Dr. Brack! 622 00:40:25,204 --> 00:40:27,300 Oh, not at all, not at all, that's er... 623 00:40:27,701 --> 00:40:30,400 That was very clever of you, David. Glad you came in. 624 00:40:31,501 --> 00:40:35,001 Nurse Kenny, this is an example of poliomyelitis in it's... 625 00:40:35,042 --> 00:40:36,402 ...chronic stage. 626 00:40:36,803 --> 00:40:41,600 This boy had no spasm, no hot pad, no alienation and no reeducation. 627 00:40:41,631 --> 00:40:43,101 I think it's a pretty serious thing, McDonnell... 628 00:40:43,122 --> 00:40:44,900 to encourage a nurse to contradict the greatest... 629 00:40:44,921 --> 00:40:48,101 - ...orthopedical authorities in the world. - I'm not contradicting you, Dr. Brack. 630 00:40:48,122 --> 00:40:50,902 - I'm not referring to myself. - I'm not contradicting anybody. 631 00:40:50,933 --> 00:40:53,803 But I cannot deny what I saw with my own eyes. 632 00:40:53,834 --> 00:40:57,554 I didn't know what infantile paralysis was until I got your telegram. 633 00:40:57,575 --> 00:41:00,200 - It was your diagnosis, Brack. - Now, just a minute. 634 00:41:00,201 --> 00:41:01,800 You say that your patients are not deformed. 635 00:41:01,821 --> 00:41:04,501 - No. - Well, deformities often develop later. 636 00:41:04,522 --> 00:41:06,402 I'd like to examine one of your patients. 637 00:41:06,433 --> 00:41:08,703 Isn't that the man you wanted me to examine? 638 00:41:08,734 --> 00:41:10,700 Oh, no, no... it's the child. 639 00:41:10,721 --> 00:41:13,001 This is my first patient, Dr. Brack, Dorrie McIntyre. 640 00:41:13,032 --> 00:41:14,200 Come here, dear. 641 00:41:14,221 --> 00:41:16,200 Well, take a look at her, Brack. Is she recovered or not? 642 00:41:16,201 --> 00:41:18,401 Oh, we'll very soon find out. 643 00:41:18,432 --> 00:41:21,600 Oh, Kevin, come in. I'll explain in just a minute. 644 00:41:21,601 --> 00:41:24,041 Take her clothes off, nurse. I want to test her muscles. 645 00:41:24,062 --> 00:41:25,242 Yes, Doctor. 646 00:41:28,243 --> 00:41:30,443 - Which leg was affected? - Both legs, Doctor. 647 00:41:31,544 --> 00:41:32,844 Sit down, dear. 648 00:41:32,865 --> 00:41:35,045 - Arms? - No, not the arms. 649 00:41:36,746 --> 00:41:39,446 - Spine? - Yes, and the posterior neck muscles. 650 00:41:41,047 --> 00:41:43,747 Oh, Dorrie, look at those knees. You got them all dirty. 651 00:41:45,848 --> 00:41:47,648 Those hands aren't too clean either. 652 00:41:48,549 --> 00:41:50,949 That's it, now lie down for the doctor, right here. 653 00:41:51,851 --> 00:41:53,250 Okay. 654 00:41:53,451 --> 00:41:55,651 Now flex your leg. 655 00:41:59,152 --> 00:42:00,852 Hold your leg against my hand. 656 00:42:00,883 --> 00:42:02,653 Hold tight. 657 00:42:04,354 --> 00:42:06,554 Normal strength, she takes full resistance. 658 00:42:07,255 --> 00:42:09,255 Now, pull your foot up. 659 00:42:12,056 --> 00:42:13,556 Push down. 660 00:42:16,057 --> 00:42:18,257 Yes... sit up. 661 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:21,358 Lean forward. 662 00:42:24,859 --> 00:42:26,659 Perfectly straight, no scoliosis. 663 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:27,900 All right, sit up again. 664 00:42:27,901 --> 00:42:30,701 You did a good job, Elizabeth. She looks perfectly well to me. 665 00:42:30,722 --> 00:42:31,852 Perfectly. 666 00:42:31,853 --> 00:42:34,000 Oh, I knew all you had to do was to see her, Dr. Brack. 667 00:42:34,051 --> 00:42:36,501 Come on, Dorrie, show the doctor how you can run. 668 00:42:36,602 --> 00:42:38,702 I can dance too. 669 00:42:38,733 --> 00:42:40,803 She learned me how to dance. 670 00:42:40,964 --> 00:42:42,704 I can do cartwheels. 671 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:52,605 And there it is, Brack. 672 00:42:53,306 --> 00:42:54,876 That's what we've been talking about. 673 00:42:54,899 --> 00:42:57,600 They're both the same disease and different treatments. 674 00:42:57,621 --> 00:43:01,201 - Are you sick? - I was, but I'm well now. 675 00:43:02,102 --> 00:43:04,902 - What's your name? - David. 676 00:43:04,903 --> 00:43:07,703 - What's your name? - Dorrie. 677 00:43:09,204 --> 00:43:12,304 You know what? I can kick a football. 678 00:43:12,505 --> 00:43:14,805 Wanna see me dance again? 679 00:43:15,206 --> 00:43:18,706 No, turn another cartwheel. 680 00:43:18,707 --> 00:43:20,000 Uh, Dorrie... 681 00:43:24,501 --> 00:43:26,301 Come along, David. 682 00:43:26,302 --> 00:43:28,102 - Nurse, take him out of here. - Yes, Doctor. 683 00:43:35,203 --> 00:43:37,803 - Goodbye. - Bye. 684 00:43:48,904 --> 00:43:51,204 Well, Brack, it looks as if this little fact to you... 685 00:43:51,235 --> 00:43:53,800 with her dirty knees is not in your books, in your braces... 686 00:43:53,801 --> 00:43:56,201 ...in your orthodox treatment and your cocked hat. 687 00:43:56,222 --> 00:43:57,900 My dear McDonnell, I told you when you came in here... 688 00:43:57,931 --> 00:43:59,601 ...I didn't think you had your facts right. 689 00:43:59,632 --> 00:44:01,702 Well, here's your first wrong fact. 690 00:44:02,403 --> 00:44:04,903 This child never had infantile paralysis. 691 00:44:06,304 --> 00:44:08,504 - Never had it? - Not a trace of it. 692 00:44:08,505 --> 00:44:12,100 - Brack, are you out of your mind? - All my experience proves conclusively... 693 00:44:12,139 --> 00:44:16,081 ...that no child could possibly recover from poliomyelitis in such a short time. 694 00:44:16,782 --> 00:44:18,941 - Then what did she have? - I haven't the slightest idea. 695 00:44:18,963 --> 00:44:21,000 - I wasn't there. - But the telegram. 696 00:44:21,021 --> 00:44:23,301 It's quite clear that the symptoms were not accurately observed. 697 00:44:23,332 --> 00:44:26,802 I don't know what this is all about, Liz, but if you want me as a witness, I... 698 00:44:26,823 --> 00:44:27,820 No, no, Kevin, please. 699 00:44:27,841 --> 00:44:31,000 If Nurse Kenny said those symptoms were observed, they were there! 700 00:44:31,001 --> 00:44:33,401 - No doubt, she's a very good nurse. - She's more than that! 701 00:44:33,422 --> 00:44:35,102 Oh, has she got degrees I don't know about? 702 00:44:35,123 --> 00:44:36,603 That's just the point! 703 00:44:36,634 --> 00:44:39,200 If she'd been a doctor, she'd have followed the orthodox treatment. 704 00:44:39,221 --> 00:44:41,402 She wouldn't have done the things she did. She wouldn't have dared. 705 00:44:41,423 --> 00:44:43,740 Oh, perhaps you should turn our business over to nurses. 706 00:44:43,761 --> 00:44:45,241 Well, if they could do better, I wouldn't mind. 707 00:44:45,262 --> 00:44:46,800 If that's the case, I don't think we have much to discuss. 708 00:44:46,821 --> 00:44:48,250 Just a minute, doctor. 709 00:44:48,271 --> 00:44:50,251 I saw this child when she couldn't move. 710 00:44:50,272 --> 00:44:52,152 I saw what Nurse Kenny did. 711 00:44:52,153 --> 00:44:54,300 Oh, are you a doctor too? 712 00:44:54,321 --> 00:44:56,400 No, but I saw her make Dorrie walk. 713 00:44:58,001 --> 00:45:01,500 Nurse Kenny. Your friends are going to lead you into great trouble. 714 00:45:01,901 --> 00:45:05,201 I advise you to stick to nursing and not meddle with orthopedic medicine. 715 00:45:05,222 --> 00:45:07,052 It's a complicated subject which is difficult enough... 716 00:45:07,073 --> 00:45:09,153 ...for those who spend a lifetime studying it. 717 00:45:09,554 --> 00:45:11,154 Now if you'll excuse me. 718 00:45:11,555 --> 00:45:12,755 Brack! 719 00:45:12,956 --> 00:45:17,106 No one who knows your record can doubt your sincerity or your ability. 720 00:45:17,207 --> 00:45:20,200 But, since I know Nurse Kenny better than you do, 721 00:45:20,231 --> 00:45:22,771 I can't dismiss this incident without investigation. 722 00:45:22,792 --> 00:45:26,372 All you have to do is to try Nurse Kenny's treatment... 723 00:45:26,393 --> 00:45:28,400 ...on one acute case in this hospital. 724 00:45:28,421 --> 00:45:30,501 Never in the world will I consent to it. 725 00:45:30,522 --> 00:45:33,402 You can't play with children's lives. 726 00:45:33,423 --> 00:45:36,403 This is a tragic business. You don't know how tragic it is. 727 00:45:36,424 --> 00:45:38,654 That's just why I'm asking. 728 00:45:38,675 --> 00:45:41,955 You've seen only a few cases, McDonnell, I've seen thousands. 729 00:45:41,976 --> 00:45:45,000 I'm in charge of the orthopedic work in this hospital, not you. 730 00:45:45,021 --> 00:45:47,400 But if no new treatment were ever tried. 731 00:45:47,421 --> 00:45:50,601 I will not experiment with the lives of children. 732 00:45:50,622 --> 00:45:52,402 Not even to save them? 733 00:45:52,433 --> 00:45:54,903 Even if you think your treatment is wrong, dangerous, 734 00:45:54,934 --> 00:45:57,304 it's your duty to try it on one sick child. 735 00:45:57,335 --> 00:45:59,555 Guinea pigs, yes, children, no. 736 00:45:59,576 --> 00:46:02,000 I wouldn't submit my own children to such an experiment. 737 00:46:02,051 --> 00:46:04,000 Well, I would. 738 00:46:04,801 --> 00:46:06,701 You have no children. 739 00:46:24,802 --> 00:46:26,800 Well, I'm glad you're through with it. 740 00:46:28,001 --> 00:46:30,401 We're not licked yet, Elizabeth. 741 00:46:31,702 --> 00:46:34,702 As long as I live, I'll never forget David. 742 00:46:35,603 --> 00:46:37,003 Ever. 743 00:46:59,104 --> 00:47:02,804 I don't know who's having the best time, Dorrie or Mrs. McDonnell. 744 00:47:02,805 --> 00:47:05,805 You know, Liz, I don't think we should have any children. 745 00:47:06,106 --> 00:47:09,106 - Why? - You wouldn't have any time left for me. 746 00:47:09,607 --> 00:47:11,607 Then I won't have any. 747 00:47:11,999 --> 00:47:14,808 Fine. That's settled. 748 00:47:17,009 --> 00:47:18,999 No brats. 749 00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,700 How many do you really want? 750 00:47:21,731 --> 00:47:24,101 Well, I plan on ten the first five years. 751 00:47:24,252 --> 00:47:26,302 I think I'd better go on being a nurse. 752 00:47:26,333 --> 00:47:28,103 Not after next Saturday, you won't. 753 00:47:28,134 --> 00:47:30,004 No married nurses in this country. 754 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,505 Liz, in all the excitement, you forgot to tell me. 755 00:47:34,506 --> 00:47:36,906 - What did McDonnell say? - About what? 756 00:47:36,997 --> 00:47:38,507 Our getting married. 757 00:47:39,808 --> 00:47:41,308 Did he get angry? 758 00:47:41,409 --> 00:47:42,700 No... 759 00:47:43,701 --> 00:47:45,901 You forgot to tell him. 760 00:47:48,702 --> 00:47:50,802 What's the matter, Liz, are you ashamed of me? 761 00:47:50,833 --> 00:47:52,603 Oh, no! 762 00:47:53,504 --> 00:47:55,404 Well, here's your chance to prove it. 763 00:47:59,805 --> 00:48:01,205 I'll be with you in a moment. 764 00:48:04,706 --> 00:48:06,999 He must have had another fight with Dr. Brack. 765 00:48:15,500 --> 00:48:17,800 - The doctor's in his office. - Oh, thanks, dear. 766 00:48:26,101 --> 00:48:28,101 - Hello, darling. - Hello, Nellie. 767 00:48:29,202 --> 00:48:32,150 - Have you had any food? - No, I haven't. Could you get me a snack? 768 00:48:32,171 --> 00:48:33,451 I'll warm it up. 769 00:48:36,252 --> 00:48:37,999 Come in here, you two. 770 00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:50,700 Well, Elizabeth, this is tougher than I thought. 771 00:48:50,701 --> 00:48:52,501 Didn't you get anywhere with him, Doctor? 772 00:48:52,522 --> 00:48:53,822 About that far. 773 00:48:53,843 --> 00:48:57,323 He wouldn't let you touch an acute case of infantile paralysis with a ten-foot pole. 774 00:48:57,324 --> 00:48:59,624 Well, Brack isn't the only specialist in Australia. 775 00:48:59,645 --> 00:49:02,725 Right now every other orthopedic man in the country would back him up. 776 00:49:02,756 --> 00:49:05,000 He's a brilliant man, he's absolutely sincere. 777 00:49:05,031 --> 00:49:08,300 In his opinion, he's defending the lives of children, that's his job. 778 00:49:08,421 --> 00:49:10,201 He'll never let you touch an acute case. 779 00:49:10,202 --> 00:49:12,102 But I did it as a nurse. 780 00:49:12,303 --> 00:49:14,103 Try it again and you'll be prosecuted. 781 00:49:14,804 --> 00:49:16,604 This thing is bigger than it was in the afternoon. 782 00:49:16,605 --> 00:49:20,105 Brack's in the warpath. Even my scalp feels a bit loose at the edges. 783 00:49:20,146 --> 00:49:22,306 He'd look pretty silly if you took it to the newspapers. 784 00:49:22,337 --> 00:49:24,657 - Tell them everything. - Kevin that's wonderful. 785 00:49:24,678 --> 00:49:26,558 He wouldn't have a leg to stand on. 786 00:49:26,700 --> 00:49:29,759 If you were a quack, Elizabeth, that's exactly what I'd tell you to do. 787 00:49:29,780 --> 00:49:31,360 You'd hang yourself in no time. 788 00:49:31,391 --> 00:49:34,000 Medical questions aren't settled in the newspapers. 789 00:49:34,031 --> 00:49:37,000 You'd brand yourself as a fake in the eyes of every decent doctor in the country. 790 00:49:37,011 --> 00:49:40,601 You mean to say that every decent doctor in the country is a pig-headed fool? 791 00:49:40,752 --> 00:49:42,302 Well now, look, Captain. 792 00:49:42,503 --> 00:49:45,232 Suppose a civilian came to you in the field and told you... 793 00:49:45,234 --> 00:49:47,200 ...your military science was all wrong. 794 00:49:47,231 --> 00:49:48,901 You'd tell him to go to blazes, wouldn't you? 795 00:49:49,502 --> 00:49:53,502 Well, the medical profession is society's only defense against quackery. 796 00:49:53,703 --> 00:49:59,333 Our degrees, our licenses, our medical associations are a wall to protect society. 797 00:49:59,354 --> 00:50:03,634 ...against vicious men who are willing to trade on human ignorance and misery. 798 00:50:03,635 --> 00:50:05,340 That's a beautiful speech, Doctor. 799 00:50:05,391 --> 00:50:07,741 So inside the wall you go on making cripples. 800 00:50:08,442 --> 00:50:11,742 Surely there must be some way you can try what I did. 801 00:50:11,799 --> 00:50:13,243 I can't. 802 00:50:14,344 --> 00:50:16,044 But you can. 803 00:50:19,245 --> 00:50:20,955 Elizabeth, do you believe in your achievement? 804 00:50:20,976 --> 00:50:23,856 - Of course I do. - Then take their failures. 805 00:50:24,357 --> 00:50:27,757 The Davids, you can find plenty of them, children the doctors have given up. 806 00:50:28,788 --> 00:50:30,600 You saw some of them today. 807 00:50:30,651 --> 00:50:33,601 They'll be discharged soon, hidden away in little houses, 808 00:50:33,632 --> 00:50:37,302 in forgotten streets with broken hearts and parents. 809 00:50:37,333 --> 00:50:40,600 Take the worst cases. Take ten that can't walk. 810 00:50:40,691 --> 00:50:42,301 Make them walk. 811 00:50:42,302 --> 00:50:44,000 And your treatment... 812 00:50:44,301 --> 00:50:46,001 the Kenny treatment, 813 00:50:46,032 --> 00:50:49,202 will be adopted in every hospital in Australia. 814 00:50:50,303 --> 00:50:52,103 In the world. 815 00:50:53,104 --> 00:50:55,104 Take their failures. 816 00:50:57,005 --> 00:50:58,605 What's the matter? 817 00:51:00,506 --> 00:51:03,106 We came here to tell you we're going to be married. 818 00:51:05,007 --> 00:51:06,607 Oh. 819 00:51:10,208 --> 00:51:12,108 Congratulations. 820 00:51:40,709 --> 00:51:42,309 I'll help you, Richard. 821 00:51:44,110 --> 00:51:46,610 - Goodbye, Nurse Kenny. - Goodbye, Valerie. 822 00:51:46,811 --> 00:51:49,111 - Goodbye, Nurse Kenny. - Goodbye, Dorothy. 823 00:51:49,812 --> 00:51:52,000 You know this isn't our doing, Nurse Kenny. 824 00:51:52,021 --> 00:51:55,201 - I know that, Mrs. Hicks. - We think it a wicked shame. 825 00:51:58,702 --> 00:52:03,102 - Hasn't his parents come, Nurse Kenny? - Richard has no parents, doctor. 826 00:52:03,133 --> 00:52:05,503 We have a court order to take him to the orphanage. 827 00:52:05,504 --> 00:52:08,204 - Is that his case history? - Yes. 828 00:52:08,805 --> 00:52:12,005 Does it say that he was given up six months ago as a hopeless cripple? 829 00:52:12,036 --> 00:52:15,506 That's right. By a general practitioner, however. 830 00:52:16,307 --> 00:52:19,807 Of course any specialist can see he never had infantile paralysis. 831 00:52:19,858 --> 00:52:21,108 Precisely. 832 00:52:21,109 --> 00:52:24,509 What was it that twisted his legs out of shape? Muscular cramp? 833 00:52:24,540 --> 00:52:26,441 I've heard that before too. 834 00:52:26,441 --> 00:52:29,000 According to the record he had an obscure nervous derangement. 835 00:52:29,091 --> 00:52:32,801 Well, that's a new one. He had an obscure nervous derangement. 836 00:52:32,872 --> 00:52:35,400 So he was treated for five months for infantile paralysis. 837 00:52:35,431 --> 00:52:39,401 May I remind you, Nurse Kenny, we don't discuss these matters in front of patients. 838 00:52:39,432 --> 00:52:41,900 That makes it rather difficult for me. Sit up, dear. 839 00:52:41,971 --> 00:52:45,101 The only time I see a doctor is when they come to take my patients away. 840 00:52:46,302 --> 00:52:48,302 I had twelve children here. 841 00:52:48,363 --> 00:52:51,400 All of them were carried in. Seven of them walked out tonight. 842 00:52:51,801 --> 00:52:56,201 - Richard here was the worst. - I have no intention of arguing the matter. 843 00:52:56,252 --> 00:52:58,602 - All right, my boy... - You don't need to lift him. 844 00:52:59,603 --> 00:53:01,303 Come on, Richard. 845 00:53:06,604 --> 00:53:09,404 - We've had fun here, haven't we? - Yes, Nurse Kenny. 846 00:53:10,405 --> 00:53:12,805 Well, you have a good time where you're going. 847 00:53:12,856 --> 00:53:15,000 There will be lots of children for you to play with. 848 00:53:15,701 --> 00:53:18,999 Now, will you remember all the exercises I've taught you? 849 00:53:19,030 --> 00:53:20,800 Yes, Nurse Kenny. 850 00:53:20,801 --> 00:53:23,101 All right, then. Off you go. 851 00:53:23,103 --> 00:53:24,502 - Come on. - Don't touch him! 852 00:53:24,503 --> 00:53:26,503 He's going to walk out of here by himself. 853 00:53:34,304 --> 00:53:35,804 Just a moment. 854 00:53:38,305 --> 00:53:40,200 You forgot something. 855 00:54:31,701 --> 00:54:33,800 Is there anything more I can do for you? 856 00:54:34,501 --> 00:54:36,701 You've done too much already, Mrs. Gordon. 857 00:54:36,902 --> 00:54:40,802 - I wish I could have paid you. - I've been well paid, my dear. 858 00:54:56,503 --> 00:55:00,503 It's a long way to Tiperrary 859 00:55:00,604 --> 00:55:04,404 It's a long way to go 860 00:55:04,505 --> 00:55:08,405 It's a long way to Tiperrary 861 00:55:08,445 --> 00:55:12,606 To the sweetest girl I know 862 00:55:12,657 --> 00:55:16,700 Goodbye Piccadilly 863 00:55:16,791 --> 00:55:20,501 Farewell Leicester Square 864 00:55:20,572 --> 00:55:24,402 It's a long, long way to Tiperrary 865 00:55:24,403 --> 00:55:28,503 But my heart's right there 866 00:55:53,504 --> 00:55:55,104 Kevin! 867 00:55:58,905 --> 00:56:00,305 Oh, Kevin... 868 00:56:00,506 --> 00:56:03,106 This is the first time I've ever seen you in uniform. You look wonderful. 869 00:56:03,127 --> 00:56:04,900 Best tailor in Toowoomba. 870 00:56:05,101 --> 00:56:06,750 - How are you, Liz? - I'm fine... 871 00:56:06,781 --> 00:56:08,350 ...except for the fact you're going away. 872 00:56:08,352 --> 00:56:09,452 It won't be for long, 873 00:56:09,473 --> 00:56:10,953 Why didn't you tell me you were going so soon? 874 00:56:10,974 --> 00:56:12,754 - I didn't know. - When do you sail? 875 00:56:12,785 --> 00:56:16,155 Soon as we get to Sidney. Here, this address will find me overseas. 876 00:56:16,186 --> 00:56:18,000 I'll write tonight. 877 00:56:18,401 --> 00:56:19,700 Kevin! 878 00:56:19,721 --> 00:56:22,001 Don't worry, Liz, I'll be back for Christmas. 879 00:56:22,132 --> 00:56:24,402 Whatever you do, don't fall in love with a nurse. 880 00:56:24,423 --> 00:56:26,103 I can't, I already am. 881 00:56:26,134 --> 00:56:28,340 Oh, here. Your mother sent this for the children. How are they? 882 00:56:28,361 --> 00:56:31,001 - Fine, seven walking. - Is everything going well? 883 00:56:31,033 --> 00:56:32,402 - Couldn't be better. - Goodbye, darling. 884 00:56:32,433 --> 00:56:33,703 Goodbye, Kevin. 885 00:56:33,734 --> 00:56:34,900 Careful sir. 886 00:56:52,401 --> 00:56:54,601 I still don't see why you want to go in the army. 887 00:56:54,622 --> 00:56:57,402 Oh, I'm used to a fight. I might as well get in a good one. 888 00:56:57,803 --> 00:57:00,403 Well, I think they'll take you. But not in that hat. 889 00:57:00,604 --> 00:57:03,234 Have you written to Captain Connors you're going overseas? 890 00:57:03,255 --> 00:57:04,300 Not yet. 891 00:57:04,341 --> 00:57:06,801 But I've cabled Von Hindenburg to cease firing... 892 00:57:06,832 --> 00:57:08,702 ...so that we can have a holiday in Paris. 893 00:57:08,803 --> 00:57:10,603 I wouldn't put it past you. 894 00:57:10,999 --> 00:57:14,104 I want to get one thing straight. And that's the last question I'll ask you. 895 00:57:14,205 --> 00:57:17,400 You don't start this massage in the acute stage. 896 00:57:17,426 --> 00:57:20,400 No, no, not until the pain is all gone. And don't call it massage. 897 00:57:20,421 --> 00:57:21,780 You sound like Dr. Brack. 898 00:57:21,799 --> 00:57:24,000 Well, what is it? You use your hands, what do you do? 899 00:57:24,021 --> 00:57:27,840 It's very simple. I stimulate subconscious neuromotor impulses... 900 00:57:27,861 --> 00:57:30,901 ...by agitating the proprioreceptive receptors in the periphery. 901 00:57:30,942 --> 00:57:32,100 You what? 902 00:57:32,121 --> 00:57:34,531 I stimulate subconscious neuromo... 903 00:57:34,732 --> 00:57:36,732 Why are you asking all these questions? 904 00:57:38,333 --> 00:57:40,133 Well, er... 905 00:57:40,534 --> 00:57:42,234 in France... 906 00:57:42,285 --> 00:57:44,800 ...you might forget about it. Take care of yourself, Elizabeth. 907 00:57:44,841 --> 00:57:47,800 Oh, you take care of yourself... for a change. 908 00:57:47,852 --> 00:57:51,502 And don't forget. The fight against polio will go on longer than the war. 909 00:57:51,543 --> 00:57:54,403 Oh, it'll probably go on until the last doctor dies of it. 910 00:58:10,204 --> 00:58:13,600 Well, this is a new one. Putting a soldier on the ground before he's dead. 911 00:58:14,501 --> 00:58:17,100 - Who ordered this transfer? - I don't know, sir. 912 00:58:17,121 --> 00:58:18,400 Just carrying out orders. 913 00:58:18,421 --> 00:58:21,201 I was alright where I was. Why did I have to be moved? 914 00:58:21,221 --> 00:58:22,550 You're supposed to be quiet, sir. 915 00:58:22,571 --> 00:58:25,751 I'm gonna make a nuisance of myself till I find out who ordered this transfer. 916 00:58:27,452 --> 00:58:29,500 Take it easy, sir. We'll get you off. 917 00:58:29,531 --> 00:58:31,501 It's alright. I can make it alright myself. 918 00:58:38,702 --> 00:58:40,502 Wait a minute, you chaps. 919 00:58:40,999 --> 00:58:43,400 Who's in charge around here? Who ordered this transfer? 920 00:58:45,101 --> 00:58:46,701 I did, sir. 921 00:58:48,402 --> 00:58:49,702 Liz! 922 00:58:53,203 --> 00:58:54,799 Anything else, nurse? 923 00:58:54,820 --> 00:58:56,300 No, thank you. 924 00:59:04,601 --> 00:59:08,401 - Any further complaints, Major Connors? - I can't believe it. 925 00:59:09,302 --> 00:59:12,402 Liz, your last letter. This is from Lyons. 926 00:59:12,803 --> 00:59:15,203 - How did you get here? - I had myself transferred. 927 00:59:15,234 --> 00:59:17,904 Then I had you transferred. That's all there was to it. 928 00:59:18,405 --> 00:59:19,855 I wish I had your brains. 929 00:59:19,876 --> 00:59:21,800 Will you come and see me in the guard house? 930 00:59:23,401 --> 00:59:25,301 - Forgery. - Almost. 931 00:59:25,402 --> 00:59:27,000 Oh, darling, how is your leg? 932 00:59:27,401 --> 00:59:30,500 All it needs is a little time. And a good nurse. 933 00:59:30,521 --> 00:59:31,831 You sure it's not bad? 934 00:59:31,862 --> 00:59:35,832 Right now I think it's the luckiest thing that's happened to me in four years. 935 00:59:41,833 --> 00:59:43,600 Now let's see, er... 936 00:59:43,691 --> 00:59:46,501 Oh, yes, yes... Think of nothing, Clarence. 937 00:59:47,502 --> 00:59:50,002 - What's nothing? - It's, er... 938 00:59:51,203 --> 00:59:53,903 Well, it doesn't matter. Don't pay any attention to what I'm doing. 939 00:59:53,944 --> 00:59:55,804 Alright, alright. 940 00:59:55,805 --> 00:59:58,305 - Is there any pain there? - Uh-uh. 941 01:00:02,106 --> 01:00:03,906 Oh, Doctor, I told Dr. McDonnell... 942 01:00:03,937 --> 01:00:07,207 ...you gave strict orders not to remove any splints from your patient. 943 01:00:07,238 --> 01:00:09,000 All right, nurse, I gave permission. 944 01:00:09,021 --> 01:00:10,700 That's what I've been trying to tell her. 945 01:00:10,901 --> 01:00:12,401 What's that for? 946 01:00:12,999 --> 01:00:15,280 You're not supposed to pay any attention to what I'm doing here. 947 01:00:15,299 --> 01:00:16,881 You're supposed to relax. 948 01:00:19,282 --> 01:00:21,000 Why don't you relax? 949 01:00:21,051 --> 01:00:22,301 Clarence. 950 01:00:25,402 --> 01:00:27,922 - What are you doing? - I wish you'd stop asking questions. 951 01:00:27,943 --> 01:00:30,623 I don't quite know myself what I'm doing, but I'm trying to find out. 952 01:00:30,644 --> 01:00:32,824 Well, if you don't know, I don't. 953 01:00:34,425 --> 01:00:35,825 Well, if you want to know what I'm doing... 954 01:00:35,846 --> 01:00:38,526 I'm trying to stimulate subconscious neuromotor impulses... 955 01:00:38,547 --> 01:00:41,700 ...by agitating the proprioreceptive receptors in the periphery. 956 01:00:41,731 --> 01:00:42,901 Oh. 957 01:00:47,002 --> 01:00:48,302 Now... 958 01:00:49,403 --> 01:00:50,903 Now you can watch. 959 01:00:51,104 --> 01:00:52,999 No, lie down, lie down. 960 01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:58,400 Pull from here. Now think. 961 01:01:01,701 --> 01:01:04,800 Now you see what I'm doing, I'm exercising your quadriceps. 962 01:01:07,901 --> 01:01:09,600 Now do that yourself. 963 01:01:11,901 --> 01:01:13,301 Come on, lift your leg. 964 01:01:13,802 --> 01:01:15,402 Can't you lift it? 965 01:01:15,433 --> 01:01:17,303 If I could, I'd walk out of here. 966 01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:26,804 - Have you finished, doctor? - Hm? 967 01:01:26,845 --> 01:01:29,105 Yes, yes, I'm finished. 968 01:01:31,206 --> 01:01:32,999 Good night, Clarence. 969 01:01:33,020 --> 01:01:34,200 Bye, Doc. 970 01:01:34,221 --> 01:01:37,401 - Can I have my splint back? - All right, nurse, put back his splint. 971 01:01:37,402 --> 01:01:38,502 Yes, doctor. 972 01:01:41,403 --> 01:01:43,103 Well, McDonnell. 973 01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:46,604 Do you want to experiment on any more of my patients? 974 01:01:47,705 --> 01:01:49,505 No, I'm no good at it. 975 01:01:49,656 --> 01:01:51,606 But Kenny can do it! 976 01:01:51,657 --> 01:01:53,507 Not in this hospital. 977 01:02:18,308 --> 01:02:19,999 Elizabeth! 978 01:02:21,500 --> 01:02:23,800 - From where did you spring? - Hello, Doctor McDonnell. 979 01:02:23,830 --> 01:02:25,600 Your mother said you wouldn't be here for another month. 980 01:02:25,621 --> 01:02:28,281 Well, I was on my way home and the Armistice was signed on the hospital ship. 981 01:02:28,299 --> 01:02:31,282 - My, my, you look fine. - And so do you. How is Nellie? XXX 982 01:02:31,283 --> 01:02:33,883 - Nellie? I've never seen her so happy. - Ahh! 983 01:02:33,884 --> 01:02:36,684 - You have a son. - Hm, She's very proud. 984 01:02:36,699 --> 01:02:38,685 - And you're not. - Well... 985 01:02:38,699 --> 01:02:40,800 He's quite a remarkable child, you know. 986 01:02:42,501 --> 01:02:44,301 Brack delivered him. 987 01:02:44,602 --> 01:02:46,250 Couldn't you get anybody else? 988 01:02:46,251 --> 01:02:48,751 It was in a bit of a hurry. Come and sit down. 989 01:02:48,799 --> 01:02:50,752 Congratulations on your promotion. 990 01:02:50,753 --> 01:02:53,100 What am I supposed to call you now? Sister Kenny? 991 01:02:53,121 --> 01:02:56,201 Sister Kenny. And please have a little respect for my military rank. 992 01:02:56,222 --> 01:02:58,700 I will! How's Major Connors? 993 01:02:58,722 --> 01:03:00,650 He's in a hospital in England. 994 01:03:00,651 --> 01:03:02,551 It'll be six months before he can walk. 995 01:03:02,572 --> 01:03:04,752 - But he'll walk. - He'll walk. 996 01:03:04,753 --> 01:03:07,553 Good! Oh, that's fine, that's fine. 997 01:03:08,054 --> 01:03:09,754 And now what do you plan to do? 998 01:03:09,785 --> 01:03:11,650 I'm going home and wait for Kevin. 999 01:03:11,671 --> 01:03:12,851 Uh-huh. 1000 01:03:13,952 --> 01:03:16,052 You're not interested in nursing. 1001 01:03:16,153 --> 01:03:17,453 No. 1002 01:03:19,054 --> 01:03:21,954 - No more clinics? - No. 1003 01:03:25,755 --> 01:03:27,200 Feeling you need a rest, eh? 1004 01:03:27,221 --> 01:03:29,551 I certainly do. Mother's all alone now. 1005 01:03:29,572 --> 01:03:31,552 I'll wait there for Kevin. 1006 01:03:32,353 --> 01:03:34,253 What about polio? 1007 01:03:34,754 --> 01:03:36,454 Never heard of it. 1008 01:03:36,755 --> 01:03:38,999 Did you ever hear of the Kenny treatment? 1009 01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:41,200 - Kenny, Elizabeth Kenny? - Uh-huh. 1010 01:03:41,201 --> 01:03:43,700 She's a fake, doctor. A dangerous quack. 1011 01:03:44,201 --> 01:03:46,500 Every doctor in Australia knows that. 1012 01:03:47,401 --> 01:03:49,401 So you've lost your faith in her. 1013 01:03:49,402 --> 01:03:52,382 Not at all. But let somebody else do it. 1014 01:03:54,083 --> 01:03:56,700 Trouble is, they don't know enough about it. 1015 01:03:57,100 --> 01:04:00,500 When they try it, it doesn't work. 1016 01:04:00,541 --> 01:04:03,000 Then they're stupid. It's perfectly simple. 1017 01:04:03,801 --> 01:04:05,701 Who's been trying it? 1018 01:04:06,702 --> 01:04:07,902 How should I know? 1019 01:04:07,933 --> 01:04:10,103 Well, you just said they don't know very much... 1020 01:04:10,154 --> 01:04:11,154 Oh, dear! 1021 01:04:11,355 --> 01:04:13,555 I forgot to look at that patient in ward 3. 1022 01:04:13,586 --> 01:04:14,956 I'll be back in a minute. 1023 01:04:14,997 --> 01:04:17,300 - Would you like to look at the paper? - Hm. 1024 01:04:20,201 --> 01:04:23,101 You're right. You ought to have a fine six months at home. 1025 01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:59,602 Sister, how soon is tea? - Oh, pretty soon now, Mickey. 1026 01:04:59,633 --> 01:05:02,203 - I'm getting hungry. - There we are, Caroline. 1027 01:05:07,804 --> 01:05:09,304 Hm-hmm. 1028 01:05:09,705 --> 01:05:12,905 Very good. Turn over now, dear. On your face. 1029 01:05:15,006 --> 01:05:16,900 That's a girl. 1030 01:05:17,701 --> 01:05:20,800 Now. We're going to pull those shoulder blades back. 1031 01:05:22,901 --> 01:05:24,401 Pull them back, dear. 1032 01:05:27,802 --> 01:05:29,602 Can't you hold that there, Caroline? 1033 01:05:29,693 --> 01:05:32,503 You know, you've got to learn to anchor that scapula. 1034 01:05:33,304 --> 01:05:35,904 Try this one. Hold it there... 1035 01:05:39,005 --> 01:05:40,600 Oh, Nurse Warren. 1036 01:05:41,501 --> 01:05:44,501 - Give Caroline her exercises, please. - Yes, Sister. 1037 01:05:55,602 --> 01:05:57,602 Hello, Liz. 1038 01:05:57,803 --> 01:05:59,403 Come in, Kevin. 1039 01:06:06,304 --> 01:06:08,400 Would you like to see the children? 1040 01:06:08,441 --> 01:06:12,200 No, Liz. I read your letter. And I don't understand it. 1041 01:06:12,252 --> 01:06:14,702 Well, I tried to be definite. 1042 01:06:14,753 --> 01:06:17,203 You certainly were definite. 1043 01:06:18,204 --> 01:06:21,000 Liz, this seems absurd to me. I won't accept it. 1044 01:06:21,021 --> 01:06:22,600 I have the greatest sympathy with your work... 1045 01:06:22,621 --> 01:06:26,301 ...but I can't sit by and see you throw away every chance of personal happiness. 1046 01:06:26,902 --> 01:06:28,802 Let's sit down, darling. 1047 01:06:35,103 --> 01:06:36,603 Well? 1048 01:06:38,804 --> 01:06:41,604 You may be right. I may be wasting my life. 1049 01:06:41,805 --> 01:06:43,955 But I haven't got the right to waste yours too... 1050 01:06:43,976 --> 01:06:45,656 ...and I have no intention of doing it. 1051 01:06:45,677 --> 01:06:47,357 - Nonsense. - No, no it isn't, Kevin. 1052 01:06:47,958 --> 01:06:51,258 You've been so good each time I asked you to wait. You never said a word. 1053 01:06:51,959 --> 01:06:54,759 You didn't let me realize how unfair it was. 1054 01:06:54,780 --> 01:06:56,960 I guess I didn't want to realize it. 1055 01:06:56,988 --> 01:06:59,961 Liz, if I choose to wait, it's my doing, it's my responsibility. 1056 01:06:59,988 --> 01:07:01,642 Maybe I'm a fool. 1057 01:07:02,243 --> 01:07:05,243 Alright, I'm a fool. Go on and finish your job here in Townsville. 1058 01:07:05,744 --> 01:07:07,544 How long is it going to take? 1059 01:07:09,045 --> 01:07:11,245 Well, when do you think you'll be finished? 1060 01:07:12,046 --> 01:07:14,146 I don't think I'll ever be finished, Kevin. 1061 01:07:14,167 --> 01:07:15,600 Let's say two years. 1062 01:07:15,601 --> 01:07:18,601 We've always said something like that. It'll go on and on. 1063 01:07:18,632 --> 01:07:22,002 The day the doctors let me treat an acute case I'll be in sight of the end... 1064 01:07:22,023 --> 01:07:23,153 ...but that's all. 1065 01:07:23,174 --> 01:07:25,154 Let's face facts, Liz. 1066 01:07:25,175 --> 01:07:28,000 Are you any nearer to that today than you were ten years ago? 1067 01:07:29,801 --> 01:07:32,201 Yes... a little, I think. 1068 01:07:33,102 --> 01:07:35,502 I'm learning a lot about polio I didn't know. 1069 01:07:35,873 --> 01:07:38,403 I'm getting better results with the children. 1070 01:07:38,604 --> 01:07:40,904 You know, I rather wanted some children too. 1071 01:07:44,206 --> 01:07:47,455 - That's a little unfair, Kevin. - Maybe it is, but it's true. 1072 01:07:47,956 --> 01:07:50,200 You're wrong, Liz, I know it. 1073 01:07:51,601 --> 01:07:52,900 That's my decision. 1074 01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:56,001 I'm not going to let you throw yourself away on this work any longer. 1075 01:07:56,002 --> 01:07:58,602 If there was the slightest hope, Liz... 1076 01:08:06,603 --> 01:08:09,603 - Sister Kenny? - Come in, please. 1077 01:08:16,404 --> 01:08:18,304 My name's Johnson, Sister. 1078 01:08:18,385 --> 01:08:20,605 I've come clear from Brisbane. 1079 01:08:20,636 --> 01:08:23,000 - This is my little girl, Emily. - Hello, Emily. 1080 01:08:23,021 --> 01:08:24,301 Hello, Sister. 1081 01:08:24,802 --> 01:08:27,780 I've got my money, Sister. But if you... 1082 01:08:27,799 --> 01:08:30,400 If you could... take Emily here... 1083 01:08:30,431 --> 01:08:33,501 ...maybe I could work for you, scrubbing, or something. 1084 01:08:33,902 --> 01:08:36,102 Let's have a look at you, Emily. 1085 01:08:37,403 --> 01:08:40,103 Well, how old are you? 1086 01:08:40,154 --> 01:08:41,504 Eight. 1087 01:08:41,555 --> 01:08:45,105 - No, eight and a half. - Well, when did you take sick? 1088 01:08:45,136 --> 01:08:48,306 - I don't remember. - She was only three, Sister. 1089 01:08:48,337 --> 01:08:49,457 Oh... 1090 01:08:49,488 --> 01:08:52,600 Well, I can't tell you whether I can help you till I examine you thoroughly. 1091 01:08:52,631 --> 01:08:54,501 But we're going to try. 1092 01:08:54,542 --> 01:08:57,200 First thing we're going to do is to take off those braces. 1093 01:08:57,291 --> 01:08:59,801 I think you'll have a good time here, Emily. 1094 01:08:59,852 --> 01:09:02,402 There are lots of little girls here to make friends with. 1095 01:09:02,433 --> 01:09:05,703 Do you hear them out there? Well, we'll meet them in just a minute. 1096 01:09:05,734 --> 01:09:09,304 Most of the time we live outside here, where we get lots of sun... 1097 01:09:09,325 --> 01:09:10,505 And the... 1098 01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:46,306 Now we're going to take you out into the sun. 1099 01:09:59,507 --> 01:10:02,207 - Joe, have you seen Sister Kenny? - Yes, just a minute ago, doctor. 1100 01:10:02,208 --> 01:10:04,608 - Did she buy a ticket to Brisbane? - Yes. 1101 01:10:06,209 --> 01:10:07,909 - Ticket! - Oh, hello, Doctor. 1102 01:10:14,610 --> 01:10:16,210 Elizabeth! 1103 01:10:16,241 --> 01:10:17,811 Well, what are you doing here? 1104 01:10:17,812 --> 01:10:20,812 Did you actually think you could see Dr. Brisbane without telling me? 1105 01:10:21,513 --> 01:10:24,713 What are you so excited about? Ten years ago you would have sent me there. 1106 01:10:24,714 --> 01:10:26,350 I've learned something in ten years you haven't. 1107 01:10:26,371 --> 01:10:27,700 You're as stubborn as you were in Townsville. 1108 01:10:27,731 --> 01:10:29,701 Don't be ridiculous, I know what I'm doing. Give me my bag. 1109 01:10:29,722 --> 01:10:32,232 In this epidemic there will be nothing but the orthodox treatment. 1110 01:10:32,252 --> 01:10:34,333 - Brack's and Brisbane's. - That's one reason I'm going. 1111 01:10:34,354 --> 01:10:35,700 You told me to convince the doctors. 1112 01:10:35,721 --> 01:10:37,700 You open a clinic there and they'll shut you up in a week. 1113 01:10:37,721 --> 01:10:40,000 I don't think I'd mind if I could get my hands on one acute case. 1114 01:10:40,021 --> 01:10:42,000 You touch an acute case and they'll shut you up in a minute. 1115 01:10:42,021 --> 01:10:43,601 - And in jail. - Anyway, I'm going. 1116 01:10:44,102 --> 01:10:47,202 Alright, alright, just sit down for a minute. You've still got time. 1117 01:10:50,003 --> 01:10:51,403 Now look, Elizabeth, 1118 01:10:51,494 --> 01:10:53,604 there's one thing you don't seem to realize. 1119 01:10:53,755 --> 01:10:58,000 Big people make little people feel small, and naturally they resent it. 1120 01:10:58,021 --> 01:11:00,101 Now, when a big person happens to be a nurse... 1121 01:11:00,102 --> 01:11:02,552 Well, you know as well as I do what a shock it is to a doctor... 1122 01:11:02,573 --> 01:11:03,953 ...to be told off by a nurse. 1123 01:11:03,974 --> 01:11:07,100 Now, I've heard a lot of stories complaining about the same thing. 1124 01:11:07,121 --> 01:11:08,900 You antagonize them, Elizabeth. 1125 01:11:08,961 --> 01:11:11,401 You've said some very unkind things about doctors. 1126 01:11:11,422 --> 01:11:13,602 I've never said anything unkind about doctors. 1127 01:11:13,623 --> 01:11:14,800 Ha! 1128 01:11:14,831 --> 01:11:16,801 I'd like to see a few of them in their own splints. 1129 01:11:16,999 --> 01:11:18,680 Now look, Elizabeth, the train's going in a minute... 1130 01:11:18,699 --> 01:11:20,430 ...and there are two things I want to get off my chest. First... 1131 01:11:20,431 --> 01:11:24,031 - Use more tact, more patience. - I'm never impatient! 1132 01:11:24,532 --> 01:11:27,132 And the second point is this. You're bound to run into Brack. 1133 01:11:27,233 --> 01:11:30,900 Now you use four words that aren't in the books and that drives him mad. 1134 01:11:30,931 --> 01:11:34,201 If you say spasm, he'll have a spasm. 1135 01:11:34,242 --> 01:11:37,351 Alienation, incoordination, reeducation. 1136 01:11:37,393 --> 01:11:39,523 He just doesn't know what you mean when you use those words. 1137 01:11:39,544 --> 01:11:42,524 - And he won't take the trouble to find out. - That's one of the facts you have to face. 1138 01:11:43,055 --> 01:11:46,725 To him and to all the specialists, those are not scientific terms. 1139 01:11:46,746 --> 01:11:47,770 So don't use them. 1140 01:11:47,791 --> 01:11:49,531 What are you going to call spasm except spasm? 1141 01:11:49,532 --> 01:11:51,800 Call it a, er... muscle condition. 1142 01:11:51,821 --> 01:11:54,800 - A muscle condition? - Muscle condition, but not spasm. 1143 01:12:04,501 --> 01:12:07,000 - Goodbye, Doctor. - Goodbye, good luck. 1144 01:12:07,031 --> 01:12:09,101 - And no spasm. - No spasm. 1145 01:12:47,302 --> 01:12:49,302 I'm sorry about this, Sister. 1146 01:12:49,403 --> 01:12:53,999 When I let you move in here, I didn't know the place was unfit for hospital purposes. 1147 01:12:54,400 --> 01:12:58,200 When I moved in here, Mr. Todd, it was not unfit for hospital purposes. 1148 01:12:58,231 --> 01:12:59,951 Not until I put that up. 1149 01:12:59,972 --> 01:13:02,152 Let me know if there's anything I can do. 1150 01:13:02,253 --> 01:13:03,453 Thank you, Mr. Todd. 1151 01:13:09,154 --> 01:13:12,454 This patient has just finished his quarantine isolation. 1152 01:13:13,055 --> 01:13:16,999 At the onset of the attack, the familiar symptoms of polio appeared. 1153 01:13:17,030 --> 01:13:20,800 A stiff neck, headache, fever with ensuing muscular pain... 1154 01:13:20,801 --> 01:13:23,501 followed by the loss of the use of arms and legs. 1155 01:13:23,902 --> 01:13:28,102 This boy was brought here immediately and I advised total immobilization. 1156 01:13:28,803 --> 01:13:31,253 Certain muscles have become paralyzed... 1157 01:13:31,284 --> 01:13:35,000 ...owing to the destruction of the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord. 1158 01:13:35,031 --> 01:13:37,601 The result was that strong unaffected muscles... 1159 01:13:37,632 --> 01:13:41,500 ...were pulling against weak paralyzed muscles and producing deformity. 1160 01:13:41,551 --> 01:13:44,701 You doctors who have worked so many years in orthopedic medicine... 1161 01:13:44,742 --> 01:13:47,902 ...know the familiar tortured position of the victims very well. 1162 01:13:48,103 --> 01:13:52,880 Here you see the most modern application of splints to prevent deformity. 1163 01:13:52,899 --> 01:13:54,281 Dr. Brack. 1164 01:13:59,299 --> 01:14:02,882 Here on the right arm, I've applied the latest type of airplane splints. 1165 01:14:02,899 --> 01:14:04,583 Dr. Brack! 1166 01:14:07,884 --> 01:14:12,000 Ladies and gentlemen, this is Miss Elizabeth Kenny, 1167 01:14:12,300 --> 01:14:16,900 who has some original notions on the pathology and treatment of this disease. 1168 01:14:17,801 --> 01:14:21,201 Miss Kenny, I presume you've come to discuss infantile paralysis. 1169 01:14:21,252 --> 01:14:22,782 Yes, Dr. Brack. 1170 01:14:22,799 --> 01:14:25,100 Well, in order not to waste the time of these busy people... 1171 01:14:25,131 --> 01:14:27,000 who after all came to hear me, 1172 01:14:27,031 --> 01:14:29,900 I suggest that we postpone the discussion. 1173 01:14:29,971 --> 01:14:31,801 How many years, Doctor? 1174 01:14:31,802 --> 01:14:33,852 Miss Kenny, I'll be glad if you were to call at my office. 1175 01:14:33,873 --> 01:14:36,500 I've called at your office on three different occasions. 1176 01:14:36,531 --> 01:14:39,701 - Did you have an appointment? - Your secretary refused to give me one. 1177 01:14:39,722 --> 01:14:42,402 Well, get in touch with her again. I'm sure it can be arranged. 1178 01:14:42,453 --> 01:14:45,903 We're in the middle of an epidemic. It's quite likely that I was engaged. 1179 01:14:45,994 --> 01:14:48,604 The last time I was there you were having tea. 1180 01:14:49,405 --> 01:14:53,405 Well, I hope that this class will not be further disturbed. 1181 01:14:53,706 --> 01:14:55,206 Now where was I? 1182 01:14:55,207 --> 01:14:58,107 Oh, yes. The type of splint I've applied on the right arm... 1183 01:14:58,148 --> 01:15:00,300 Dr. Brack. 1184 01:15:01,101 --> 01:15:03,101 I don't like this any more than you do. 1185 01:15:03,102 --> 01:15:06,102 But I have no reason to believe I'll ever see you in your office. 1186 01:15:06,143 --> 01:15:09,903 And I must have an answer, and a public one if possible, to this question. 1187 01:15:09,944 --> 01:15:12,444 Why do you prevent me from doing my work? 1188 01:15:12,465 --> 01:15:14,700 Miss Kenny, I don't prevent you doing your work. 1189 01:15:14,791 --> 01:15:17,801 - It's the authorities. - At your request. 1190 01:15:17,802 --> 01:15:19,802 Isn't that putting it rather rudely? 1191 01:15:19,999 --> 01:15:22,203 Do you know how to put it politely? 1192 01:15:22,234 --> 01:15:23,444 Shh! 1193 01:15:23,445 --> 01:15:27,400 Ladies and gentlemen, since we cannot avoid this interruption, 1194 01:15:27,421 --> 01:15:29,101 perhaps we can make use of it. 1195 01:15:29,192 --> 01:15:34,002 As open-minded men of science, we do not reject ideas without examination. 1196 01:15:34,403 --> 01:15:38,000 Now, Miss Kenny's ideas were familiar to me 20 years ago. 1197 01:15:38,201 --> 01:15:42,601 I even permitted a general practitioner, Dr. McDonnell of Toowoomba, 1198 01:15:43,232 --> 01:15:47,202 to test them with very sad results. 1199 01:15:48,903 --> 01:15:52,343 Nobody who reads the newspapers in which Miss Kenny's name appears... 1200 01:15:52,364 --> 01:15:56,300 ...more and more frequently, can be unaware of her existence. 1201 01:15:56,601 --> 01:15:59,101 But they may be unfamiliar with her ideas. 1202 01:15:59,142 --> 01:16:03,802 Now, how many of you hear know anything of the so-called Kenny treatment? 1203 01:16:08,503 --> 01:16:12,803 Miss Kenny, would you like to tell this class how ignorant I am? 1204 01:16:13,204 --> 01:16:16,704 And how dangerous the orthodox treatment of this disease is? 1205 01:16:18,005 --> 01:16:20,105 I certainly would. 1206 01:16:20,205 --> 01:16:22,806 But I don't think you're ignorant. Only pig-headed. 1207 01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:26,997 Well, come down here, please. 1208 01:16:33,598 --> 01:16:35,498 Come over here. 1209 01:16:36,599 --> 01:16:38,399 Speak freely. 1210 01:16:38,800 --> 01:16:40,500 Explain your theory. 1211 01:16:42,501 --> 01:16:45,700 Well, the fundamental difference between us... 1212 01:16:45,721 --> 01:16:47,700 ...is which muscle is sick. 1213 01:16:48,201 --> 01:16:49,601 Go on. 1214 01:16:50,402 --> 01:16:54,102 Dr. Brack, I didn't expect to find you so tolerant. 1215 01:16:54,803 --> 01:16:59,203 This is the first time in 20 years I've been given a hearing before orthopedic men. 1216 01:16:59,234 --> 01:17:01,104 Yes, yes, Miss Kenny. Go on. 1217 01:17:01,805 --> 01:17:06,105 Well, Dr. Brack considers that one muscle is paralyzed... 1218 01:17:06,126 --> 01:17:08,206 ...and the opposing muscle is healthy. 1219 01:17:08,357 --> 01:17:11,047 I say the opposing muscle is sick, in spa... 1220 01:17:11,348 --> 01:17:14,548 Well, call it a muscle condition. 1221 01:17:14,849 --> 01:17:18,200 Now, the first thing to do when you find a muscle condition like that... 1222 01:17:18,270 --> 01:17:22,450 ...is to apply moist heat and reduce the sp... the muscle condition. 1223 01:17:22,651 --> 01:17:25,751 The first thing to do is to keep the muscles relaxed. 1224 01:17:25,752 --> 01:17:28,052 If you put them in splints, you'll only make the sp... 1225 01:17:28,083 --> 01:17:30,053 I mean, the muscle condition worse. 1226 01:17:30,454 --> 01:17:34,054 Yes, that would be quite reasonable, if your concept were correct. 1227 01:17:34,085 --> 01:17:36,355 Now come to the convalescence stage. 1228 01:17:36,556 --> 01:17:39,700 - Well, after the spasm... - Spasm? 1229 01:17:40,401 --> 01:17:42,401 Yes, spasm! 1230 01:17:42,402 --> 01:17:45,702 After the spasm is relieved you find the muscles look perfectly normal. 1231 01:17:45,703 --> 01:17:50,053 But they are not. They're alienated, incoordinated, and they need reeducation. 1232 01:17:50,074 --> 01:17:52,754 There is no such thing as spasm in infantile paralysis. 1233 01:17:52,795 --> 01:17:55,955 Incoordination, reeducation, alienation. 1234 01:17:55,986 --> 01:17:58,700 You'll find that word in the divorce court, not in medical science. 1235 01:17:58,721 --> 01:18:01,400 These are not scientific terms, they're gibberish, you invented them. 1236 01:18:01,421 --> 01:18:05,000 Yes, for a new concept. New ideas need new words. 1237 01:18:05,021 --> 01:18:07,851 The words I use describe the things I see. 1238 01:18:07,872 --> 01:18:09,152 Well, how is it that we don't see them? 1239 01:18:09,173 --> 01:18:12,453 Because you've got a book in front of your eyes, whole libraries, words. 1240 01:18:12,484 --> 01:18:15,600 If you're interested in what I mean you wouldn't quibble about the words i use. 1241 01:18:15,625 --> 01:18:18,415 Without the strict and careful use of words there could be no science. 1242 01:18:18,816 --> 01:18:21,800 We can't waste any more time if you express yourself in terms that have no meaning. 1243 01:18:21,821 --> 01:18:25,401 They have meaning for me! I call it spasm. I treat spasm! 1244 01:18:26,502 --> 01:18:29,302 And you get cures, isn't that right? 1245 01:18:30,203 --> 01:18:32,403 Lots of doctors have tried to catch me on that one. 1246 01:18:32,434 --> 01:18:34,404 I don't claim to have a cure. 1247 01:18:34,445 --> 01:18:37,805 But I get improvements, Doctor, even with your failures. 1248 01:18:37,846 --> 01:18:40,706 I'd only have a chance to show what I could do if I started where you do. 1249 01:18:40,707 --> 01:18:42,507 In the acute stage. 1250 01:18:43,708 --> 01:18:46,300 Twenty years ago in the bush I had that chance. 1251 01:18:46,508 --> 01:18:49,108 I had six acute cases and they all recovered. 1252 01:18:49,409 --> 01:18:51,000 But ever since then, over and over, 1253 01:18:51,021 --> 01:18:53,801 ...I've heard the same thing whenever a patient showed improvement. 1254 01:18:54,003 --> 01:18:56,500 - He didn't have polio. - Have you finished? 1255 01:18:56,523 --> 01:18:58,603 I'll never finish until you stop doing that! 1256 01:18:58,624 --> 01:19:00,774 We will never abandon immobilization. 1257 01:19:00,999 --> 01:19:04,475 In my opinion a patient should be encased in plaster. 1258 01:19:04,496 --> 01:19:06,176 To me that's terrifying. 1259 01:19:06,177 --> 01:19:08,357 I can show you patients whose bodies are perfectly straight... 1260 01:19:08,378 --> 01:19:11,658 - ...as a result of using plaster. - Yes, straight and rigid. 1261 01:19:11,659 --> 01:19:13,469 There are thousands lying out in the graveyard... 1262 01:19:13,490 --> 01:19:15,900 ...that have just as much chance of recovering the use of their legs. 1263 01:19:15,921 --> 01:19:17,500 Miss Kenny, you're speaking in front of a patient! 1264 01:19:17,521 --> 01:19:19,301 I've tried to speak to you elsewhere! 1265 01:19:19,802 --> 01:19:23,202 And hasn't he a right to hear? It's his life, not yours or mine. 1266 01:19:23,203 --> 01:19:25,603 You're making a very serious mistake. 1267 01:19:25,644 --> 01:19:28,404 I've made a lot of mistakes, Doctor. Do you know anyone who hasn't? 1268 01:19:28,425 --> 01:19:30,305 Are any of us infallible? 1269 01:19:30,396 --> 01:19:33,306 You don't need me to tell you that medical ideas change. 1270 01:19:33,337 --> 01:19:36,307 Your fathers bled their patients for everything from a fever to a cold. 1271 01:19:36,328 --> 01:19:40,100 Do you do it anymore? Harvey changed a few ideas, so did Pasteur. 1272 01:19:40,149 --> 01:19:43,509 - Are you comparing yourself with Pasteur? - Certainly not! 1273 01:19:44,010 --> 01:19:45,510 But I wish she were here. 1274 01:19:45,591 --> 01:19:47,212 So do I, Miss Kenny. 1275 01:19:48,112 --> 01:19:50,200 He had a cure for hydrophobia. 1276 01:19:57,101 --> 01:20:00,200 The only thing that makes that laughter tolerable, Dr. Brack, 1277 01:20:00,201 --> 01:20:02,201 is that I know you're sincere. 1278 01:20:02,402 --> 01:20:05,600 But sincerity doesn't excuse a shut mind, or the cruelty to which... 1279 01:20:04,664 --> 01:20:08,903 ...that stubborn righteousness subjects thousands of children. 1280 01:20:10,004 --> 01:20:13,400 Luckily the fate of these children is not in the hands of emotional quacks. 1281 01:20:14,501 --> 01:20:17,451 As long as we are entrusted with the responsibility of authority, 1282 01:20:17,472 --> 01:20:21,152 we will never permit you to tamper recklessly with their lives. 1283 01:20:21,199 --> 01:20:24,953 It's a dangerous thing to traffic in human affliction. 1284 01:20:25,554 --> 01:20:28,500 You can keep me from treating an acute case, Dr. Brack, 1285 01:20:28,901 --> 01:20:31,101 but not from the hopeless ones. 1286 01:20:31,132 --> 01:20:32,502 The ones you've given up. 1287 01:20:33,003 --> 01:20:34,103 Oh... 1288 01:20:34,604 --> 01:20:37,400 If you need any more braces, steel corsets and other instruments... 1289 01:20:37,421 --> 01:20:39,600 ...of medieval torture I can send them to you. 1290 01:20:39,801 --> 01:20:42,301 I've taken plenty off your patients. 1291 01:20:44,402 --> 01:20:45,702 Miss Kenny. 1292 01:20:49,503 --> 01:20:52,803 I think you should be very careful before you consider this matter settled. 1293 01:20:53,804 --> 01:20:55,700 To become a nurse, you took an oath. 1294 01:20:56,301 --> 01:20:58,401 Do you remember the last paragraph? 1295 01:20:59,402 --> 01:21:03,302 With loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician in his work. 1296 01:21:03,303 --> 01:21:05,773 Instead of aiding the physicians, you have the arrogance... 1297 01:21:05,794 --> 01:21:07,974 ...to try to teach them their profession. 1298 01:21:08,875 --> 01:21:12,275 In the opinion of many doctors, you are no longer a nurse. 1299 01:21:13,376 --> 01:21:16,276 You can't dispose of me that way, Dr. Brack. 1300 01:21:16,277 --> 01:21:19,557 I've given up too much for the right to wear a nurse's uniform. 1301 01:21:33,658 --> 01:21:34,958 Sister Kenny. 1302 01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:42,259 My name is Chuter, of the Queensland Health Department. 1303 01:21:42,280 --> 01:21:43,900 - Weren't you in there? - Yes. 1304 01:21:44,301 --> 01:21:46,001 Well, just a moment, Sister Kenny. 1305 01:21:47,202 --> 01:21:48,800 I'm not against your work. 1306 01:21:48,821 --> 01:21:51,201 Who said my clinic was an unfit place for sick children? 1307 01:21:51,232 --> 01:21:53,600 Not the Queensland Health Department. 1308 01:21:53,631 --> 01:21:55,301 I'd like to ask you a favor. 1309 01:21:55,332 --> 01:21:57,000 Will you come to my office tonight? 1310 01:21:57,021 --> 01:22:00,100 - What for? - We've got a lot to discuss. 1311 01:22:00,191 --> 01:22:02,401 You say that happened in 1914? 1312 01:22:02,492 --> 01:22:04,502 July, 1914. 1313 01:22:05,903 --> 01:22:08,803 And then your work was suspended because of the war. 1314 01:22:08,994 --> 01:22:10,600 - That's right. - Hm-hmm. 1315 01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:15,200 Did you keep a record of all the cases you treated? 1316 01:22:15,301 --> 01:22:17,201 Not as careful as what I should have. 1317 01:22:17,202 --> 01:22:19,302 What is this all about, Mr. Chuter? 1318 01:22:19,353 --> 01:22:22,303 I'll explain in a moment, just as soon as I get this record straight. 1319 01:22:23,504 --> 01:22:26,204 - Good evening, Chuter, am I late? - Not at all. 1320 01:22:26,235 --> 01:22:28,505 Sister Kenny, I'd like you to meet Dr. Gideon. 1321 01:22:28,806 --> 01:22:30,746 - How do you do, Doctor? - How do you do, Sister Kenny, 1322 01:22:30,767 --> 01:22:32,600 I've wanted to meet you for a long time. 1323 01:22:32,661 --> 01:22:34,751 Then I take it you're not an orthopedic man. 1324 01:22:34,782 --> 01:22:37,400 - I'm afraid I am. - Oh. 1325 01:22:37,433 --> 01:22:40,353 I saw the result of your treatment on a girl named Johnson. 1326 01:22:40,354 --> 01:22:42,274 - Oh. - I think you had her in Townsville... 1327 01:22:42,295 --> 01:22:44,500 ...years ago. She's walking remarkably well. 1328 01:22:44,901 --> 01:22:48,100 If there's anything wrong with the orthodox treatment, I want to find out about it. 1329 01:22:48,701 --> 01:22:52,401 - You're sure you're an orthopedic man? - It's what it says on my diploma. 1330 01:22:53,602 --> 01:22:56,402 Hello, Chuter, hello, Gideon. 1331 01:22:56,803 --> 01:22:59,503 - Well, Elizabeth. - What brought you here? 1332 01:23:01,204 --> 01:23:02,704 Spasms. 1333 01:23:02,905 --> 01:23:05,155 Well, you can't teach an old dog new tricks. 1334 01:23:05,176 --> 01:23:07,436 You made a mess of my treatment in front of Dr. Brack. 1335 01:23:07,467 --> 01:23:09,337 - I never... - Now, Dr. McDonnell, 1336 01:23:09,338 --> 01:23:12,138 - Who told you about that? - Muscle condition. 1337 01:23:12,300 --> 01:23:16,100 Well, you won't scold me when you read this. Take a look at it. 1338 01:23:16,201 --> 01:23:18,701 It's from the London County Council. 1339 01:23:20,202 --> 01:23:22,602 You see? They want you in England. 1340 01:23:24,003 --> 01:23:26,553 That's the most encouraging thing that's happened in 20 years. 1341 01:23:26,574 --> 01:23:28,314 It doesn't say I can treat an acute case. 1342 01:23:28,335 --> 01:23:29,700 And how many have you treated here? 1343 01:23:29,721 --> 01:23:31,501 It's the only way I'm ever going to prove anything. 1344 01:23:31,602 --> 01:23:33,202 Finish the letter, finish the letter. 1345 01:23:34,903 --> 01:23:36,900 - She's got to go to England. - Now just a moment, McDonnell. 1346 01:23:36,901 --> 01:23:39,201 How about our plan to get a Royal Commission? 1347 01:23:39,202 --> 01:23:41,750 - Oh, by all means, go ahead with it. - But she mustn't leave Australia. 1348 01:23:41,771 --> 01:23:44,130 - Certainly not. - If we can get Parliament... 1349 01:23:44,151 --> 01:23:45,751 to appoint a group of the foremost office... 1350 01:23:45,772 --> 01:23:48,152 in the country to investigate the Kenny treatment... 1351 01:23:48,153 --> 01:23:50,723 - ...her fight is won. - Fine, fine. 1352 01:23:50,724 --> 01:23:52,580 But you don't expect her to sit around and twiddle her thumbs... 1353 01:23:52,581 --> 01:23:54,381 ...while they stop her work at every time. 1354 01:23:54,882 --> 01:23:56,532 The only thing slower than a Royal Commission... 1355 01:23:56,533 --> 01:23:58,733 ...is full payment on a doctor's bill. 1356 01:23:58,934 --> 01:24:02,000 But she shouldn't go to England. I want to find out something about this treatment. 1357 01:24:02,021 --> 01:24:03,200 Certainly she should go to England. 1358 01:24:03,221 --> 01:24:05,001 What they do there this year they'll do here the next. 1359 01:24:05,022 --> 01:24:07,550 She should be here when we get that Royal Commission. 1360 01:24:07,571 --> 01:24:09,150 What are we going to investigate if she's not here? 1361 01:24:09,171 --> 01:24:11,580 Patients. She's not going to take them to England with her. 1362 01:24:11,599 --> 01:24:14,900 She ought to continue her work in Australia. This is where she belongs. 1363 01:24:14,921 --> 01:24:17,401 She belongs where she'll get recognition the quickest. 1364 01:24:17,602 --> 01:24:20,000 Let her take ten crippled children in England. 1365 01:24:20,001 --> 01:24:22,200 The worst cases, make them walk... 1366 01:24:22,231 --> 01:24:23,401 And then what? 1367 01:24:24,202 --> 01:24:27,342 Royal Commission, Dr. Gideon, England... Why, I don't know where I am. 1368 01:24:27,363 --> 01:24:28,600 Now, if you'll just do as I say, you may... 1369 01:24:28,621 --> 01:24:31,401 I've heard that before, Dr. McDonnell, a long time ago. 1370 01:24:31,552 --> 01:24:32,822 When I said I was going to get married... 1371 01:24:32,843 --> 01:24:34,973 ...you told me if I took ten children and made them walk, 1372 01:24:34,994 --> 01:24:37,350 my treatment would be adopted by every hospital in Australia, 1373 01:24:37,371 --> 01:24:38,951 in the world, remember? 1374 01:24:38,982 --> 01:24:40,852 Well, I've made a hundred children walk. 1375 01:24:40,873 --> 01:24:44,753 And after 20 years, one lonely orthopedic physician has shown some interest. 1376 01:24:45,954 --> 01:24:48,854 I'm sorry, Dr. Gideon, but these are the facts. 1377 01:24:50,055 --> 01:24:54,455 I can't flatter myself, Elizabeth, that I persuaded you into this work. 1378 01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:56,656 It was the children. 1379 01:24:57,257 --> 01:24:59,757 Oh, I can talk to the plain doctors. 1380 01:25:00,058 --> 01:25:03,258 But the Doctor Bracks, the specialists... 1381 01:25:03,559 --> 01:25:06,259 The men alone who could open the door to my work. 1382 01:25:06,760 --> 01:25:10,760 They live in a fortress.. and I'm only a nurse. 1383 01:25:10,791 --> 01:25:13,000 I have no degrees, no passwords. 1384 01:25:13,201 --> 01:25:15,801 I'm outside the walls of Jericho. 1385 01:25:16,402 --> 01:25:19,600 They're strong walls, you don't know how strong... 1386 01:25:19,621 --> 01:25:21,101 and how high. 1387 01:25:21,602 --> 01:25:25,402 Inside the walls of Jericho they can't hear the crying of children. 1388 01:25:37,703 --> 01:25:39,303 Sister Kenny. 1389 01:25:54,204 --> 01:25:57,404 - We want more clinics! - Open up the clinic! 1390 01:26:02,105 --> 01:26:03,705 Elizabeth... 1391 01:26:03,906 --> 01:26:07,000 a minute ago you were talking about the walls of Jericho. 1392 01:26:08,401 --> 01:26:10,301 You remember what happened to them. 1393 01:26:11,602 --> 01:26:14,702 Well, some people shouted and... 1394 01:26:14,703 --> 01:26:16,803 ...blew trumpets, didn't they? 1395 01:26:16,999 --> 01:26:19,800 Some people, yes. 1396 01:26:20,701 --> 01:26:23,601 And the walls came tumbling down. 1397 01:26:49,002 --> 01:26:52,402 - I'm booked on flight 70. - Half an hour delay, mum. 1398 01:26:52,403 --> 01:26:55,403 - Fog's very heavy. - Oh, then I'll get a cup of tea. 1399 01:26:55,404 --> 01:26:56,904 Righto. This way, please. 1400 01:26:56,945 --> 01:26:58,300 - That's all. - Thank you, ma'am. 1401 01:27:24,301 --> 01:27:25,901 Kevin! 1402 01:27:26,802 --> 01:27:28,102 Well! 1403 01:27:28,253 --> 01:27:30,900 Well, I finally found you. 1404 01:27:30,951 --> 01:27:32,251 I phoned your... 1405 01:27:32,552 --> 01:27:36,422 - I phoned your office a dozen times. - I only returned an hour ago. 1406 01:27:36,443 --> 01:27:38,000 - Oh. - Just missed you in Paris. 1407 01:27:38,021 --> 01:27:41,500 I nearly caught up with you in Berlin but I was determined to catch you in London. 1408 01:27:41,521 --> 01:27:43,231 Well, bless the fog. 1409 01:27:43,252 --> 01:27:46,732 Look, Liz, can't you miss this plane? The weather's rotten. 1410 01:27:46,753 --> 01:27:48,653 I can get you a reservation tomorrow. 1411 01:27:48,654 --> 01:27:52,000 - Let's go back to London. - Oh, dear, I'd love to. 1412 01:27:52,031 --> 01:27:54,600 But I've got to be in Sidney on the fifth. 1413 01:27:54,631 --> 01:27:56,801 There's a government plane waiting for me in Alexandria. 1414 01:27:56,999 --> 01:28:00,102 Could I get there on time if I took the morning plane? 1415 01:28:00,603 --> 01:28:04,000 - No, you couldn't. - Oh. 1416 01:28:04,001 --> 01:28:06,001 Well, we'll take what time there is. 1417 01:28:06,902 --> 01:28:09,800 - Oh, another order of tea, please. - Yes, Sister Kenny. 1418 01:28:09,999 --> 01:28:11,601 You're getting famous. 1419 01:28:11,602 --> 01:28:14,222 Oh, yes. Everybody likes me, except the doctors. 1420 01:28:14,999 --> 01:28:18,723 I saw in the papers that you were going to do a lot of work here. 1421 01:28:18,999 --> 01:28:21,900 Why are you in such a tearing hurry to get back to Australia? 1422 01:28:21,921 --> 01:28:23,800 You won't believe it, Kevin. 1423 01:28:23,831 --> 01:28:25,600 The government has sent for me. 1424 01:28:25,621 --> 01:28:27,701 There's another bad outbreak of polio. 1425 01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:33,500 I haven't seen anything about this in the newspapers. 1426 01:28:33,521 --> 01:28:35,601 This Munich business has sort of crowded it out. 1427 01:28:35,602 --> 01:28:38,202 The people are demanding Kenny clinics. 1428 01:28:39,303 --> 01:28:41,603 - So you've done it. - No, no. 1429 01:28:42,204 --> 01:28:46,104 I haven't done it, but I can see a wee crack in the walls of Jericho. 1430 01:28:46,305 --> 01:28:48,505 - Dr. McDonnell? - Yes. 1431 01:28:48,706 --> 01:28:52,506 He realized before I did. That my real hope was in the people. 1432 01:28:53,907 --> 01:28:56,807 Do you remember the night he told me to take their failures? 1433 01:28:56,808 --> 01:28:58,533 I certainly do. 1434 01:28:58,600 --> 01:29:01,408 For twenty years I didn't think I was getting anyplace. 1435 01:29:01,709 --> 01:29:04,709 But all the time, the mothers, the fathers, 1436 01:29:04,710 --> 01:29:07,610 and the friends of the children were forming an army. 1437 01:29:08,411 --> 01:29:11,700 They didn't know it, I didn't know it. 1438 01:29:11,721 --> 01:29:13,701 And the Doctor Bracks didn't know it. 1439 01:29:15,002 --> 01:29:16,502 But we know it now. 1440 01:29:16,593 --> 01:29:18,803 And it's a pretty powerful army. 1441 01:29:22,104 --> 01:29:24,104 You're a great woman, Liz. 1442 01:29:25,405 --> 01:29:27,605 I've had great friends. 1443 01:29:33,206 --> 01:29:35,406 - How's your mother? - She's not too well. 1444 01:29:37,407 --> 01:29:38,607 Oh! 1445 01:29:38,808 --> 01:29:42,100 - Did you know I'm a struggling author? - No. 1446 01:29:42,601 --> 01:29:45,301 The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis. 1447 01:29:45,392 --> 01:29:47,802 - That's wonderful, Liz. - Just off the press. 1448 01:29:47,803 --> 01:29:49,503 - May I have it? - Of course you may. 1449 01:29:53,000 --> 01:29:54,504 Liz, you know... 1450 01:29:54,655 --> 01:29:57,000 it's taken me many years to understand what... 1451 01:29:57,201 --> 01:29:59,101 ...you tried to tell me in Townsville. 1452 01:30:01,402 --> 01:30:04,802 Well... it wasn't easy for either of us. 1453 01:30:04,893 --> 01:30:07,203 I wanted ten children. 1454 01:30:07,244 --> 01:30:09,000 You have thousands. 1455 01:30:09,601 --> 01:30:11,601 I still miss the ten. 1456 01:30:11,652 --> 01:30:12,802 So do I. 1457 01:30:13,603 --> 01:30:18,503 But when they laughed, you'd have heard the crying of crippled children. 1458 01:30:19,604 --> 01:30:22,304 That's what you knew, wasn't it? 1459 01:30:23,305 --> 01:30:24,999 Yes, Kevin. 1460 01:30:29,300 --> 01:30:31,400 I'm glad it turned out this way. 1461 01:30:33,001 --> 01:30:35,301 That's what I've always hoped for. 1462 01:30:35,702 --> 01:30:37,402 To hear you say it. 1463 01:30:38,303 --> 01:30:41,103 Attention, please. Flight 70. 1464 01:30:41,174 --> 01:30:43,404 Paris - Rome - Alexandria. 1465 01:30:43,405 --> 01:30:46,105 Passengers will please come to gate 3. 1466 01:30:46,806 --> 01:30:50,406 - Oh, you'd like this to read on the plane? - Oh, thank you. 1467 01:30:53,007 --> 01:30:56,107 Peace in our time, says Chamberlain. 1468 01:30:57,000 --> 01:31:01,108 - Do you believe it, Kevin? - Well, it gives us time to get ready. 1469 01:31:29,309 --> 01:31:31,309 Well, what do you think of it? 1470 01:31:31,360 --> 01:31:35,110 Incredible. When she sees this she'll certainly go to America. 1471 01:31:35,111 --> 01:31:37,111 Yes. That's what I'm afraid of. 1472 01:31:37,112 --> 01:31:40,912 Her Royal Commission has left things exactly where they were ten years ago. 1473 01:31:41,513 --> 01:31:43,113 Unfortunately. 1474 01:31:43,154 --> 01:31:45,300 I don't even see how they think this will save their faces... 1475 01:31:45,301 --> 01:31:48,101 ...when all the younger orthopedic men are already using the Kenny treatment, 1476 01:31:48,122 --> 01:31:49,999 whether they choose to call it that or not. 1477 01:31:51,500 --> 01:31:53,400 Royal Commission. 1478 01:31:55,201 --> 01:31:57,300 She does great work in Europe. 1479 01:31:57,301 --> 01:31:59,800 We call her back, she slaves through another epidemic here... 1480 01:31:59,821 --> 01:32:01,101 then they throw that in her face. 1481 01:32:02,802 --> 01:32:05,802 Well, I'd hate to be the one who has to tell her. 1482 01:32:06,103 --> 01:32:08,553 Mr. Chuter, I have Toowoomba on the telephone. 1483 01:32:08,574 --> 01:32:10,200 - Thank you. - The private line. 1484 01:32:13,501 --> 01:32:15,701 - Hello, Dr. McDonnell. - Hello, Chuter? 1485 01:32:18,402 --> 01:32:22,000 Oh, so they finally got it down on paper, did they. 1486 01:32:23,301 --> 01:32:24,801 Uh-huh. 1487 01:32:31,202 --> 01:32:33,502 Yes, I'm still here. 1488 01:32:35,003 --> 01:32:38,203 Oh, of course it can't stop the work but... 1489 01:32:38,704 --> 01:32:41,304 she's not getting any younger. 1490 01:32:42,205 --> 01:32:44,605 The plain fact is she's got to take it easy. 1491 01:32:46,906 --> 01:32:50,606 Of course it's serious. At her age it's always serious. 1492 01:32:54,407 --> 01:32:56,207 Yes, I'll tell her. 1493 01:33:26,808 --> 01:33:28,708 Oh, you can take this now, Alan. 1494 01:33:28,739 --> 01:33:29,809 Yes, Sister. 1495 01:33:38,509 --> 01:33:40,610 - Hello, Dr. McDonnell. - Hello, Alan. 1496 01:33:44,211 --> 01:33:46,911 - Well, well, Doctor. - Hello, Elizabeth. 1497 01:33:46,932 --> 01:33:48,200 I didn't hear your car. 1498 01:33:48,221 --> 01:33:51,450 Oh, this rationing puts me right back where I was 50 years ago. 1499 01:33:51,451 --> 01:33:54,951 - I'm a horse and buggy doctor. - How did you get here so early? 1500 01:33:54,972 --> 01:33:57,952 I left yesterday. I stopped overnight at the Fraziers. 1501 01:33:57,973 --> 01:34:00,753 Sit down, sit down. Would you like a cup of tea? 1502 01:34:00,774 --> 01:34:02,454 Nothing, I've had my breakfast. 1503 01:34:02,475 --> 01:34:04,255 I'll be ready in just a moment. 1504 01:34:06,356 --> 01:34:08,156 Oh, anything here you want? 1505 01:34:08,300 --> 01:34:10,257 Oh, they're probably books I gave you myself. 1506 01:34:13,658 --> 01:34:15,158 Something wrong? 1507 01:34:15,189 --> 01:34:18,359 You're really closing the place up, aren't you? 1508 01:34:18,960 --> 01:34:21,260 Well, I don't know how long I'll be in America. 1509 01:34:25,661 --> 01:34:27,561 I had a call from Chuter. 1510 01:34:28,000 --> 01:34:29,362 Oh? 1511 01:34:30,763 --> 01:34:32,473 A report of the Royal Commission. 1512 01:34:32,494 --> 01:34:37,374 There's 130 pages of undiluted condemnation of your work and ideas. 1513 01:34:39,575 --> 01:34:42,200 They say that on no account should you be permitted... 1514 01:34:42,231 --> 01:34:48,200 ...to tend a case of infantile paralysis either recent or of long standing. 1515 01:34:51,701 --> 01:34:55,350 They condemn the government for spending money on the Kenny clinics... 1516 01:34:55,381 --> 01:34:59,351 ...instead of giving its support to the orthodox method. 1517 01:35:01,652 --> 01:35:06,852 They recommend that the Kenny clinics be closed. 1518 01:35:08,993 --> 01:35:12,853 Well, that really stops me. 1519 01:35:13,354 --> 01:35:15,854 Oh, hey, the people won't stand for it. 1520 01:35:15,855 --> 01:35:19,755 The people. What can the people do against organized authority? 1521 01:35:20,756 --> 01:35:24,156 Well, don't forget they got you the clinics in the first place. 1522 01:35:26,057 --> 01:35:29,357 Of course this report won't do you any good in America. 1523 01:35:31,258 --> 01:35:33,359 Maybe you should reconsider. 1524 01:35:34,259 --> 01:35:36,459 Do you think you really have to go? 1525 01:35:36,660 --> 01:35:39,560 I don't think it. I know it. 1526 01:35:51,561 --> 01:35:53,261 Come along, Doctor. 1527 01:36:10,362 --> 01:36:12,600 Sister Kenny, unscientific. 1528 01:36:12,691 --> 01:36:14,201 - Rubbish! - Hm? 1529 01:36:14,232 --> 01:36:15,750 They haven't even read my book. 1530 01:36:15,771 --> 01:36:18,350 Oh, would you quit your gab, I've read those reviews. 1531 01:36:18,371 --> 01:36:21,000 Besides, you shouldn't be bothered by petty minds. 1532 01:36:21,901 --> 01:36:25,301 Sister Kenny's book has parts that are new and parts that are good... 1533 01:36:25,332 --> 01:36:27,862 ...but the good is not new and the new is not good. 1534 01:36:27,863 --> 01:36:29,780 Sir Charles Brack. 1535 01:36:29,788 --> 01:36:32,181 Would you put those reviews away? 1536 01:36:37,682 --> 01:36:39,182 Listen to this. 1537 01:36:39,199 --> 01:36:43,400 It is the abandonment of immobilization in splinting that is most startling. 1538 01:36:43,551 --> 01:36:46,901 A complete denial of long- established principles. 1539 01:36:47,102 --> 01:36:49,102 The British Medical Journal. 1540 01:36:49,143 --> 01:36:52,100 Elizabeth, you haven't much time before your train leaves. 1541 01:36:52,101 --> 01:36:54,101 Oh, sorry, sorry. 1542 01:36:56,802 --> 01:36:59,200 It took me six years to write that book. 1543 01:36:59,201 --> 01:37:01,501 Thirty years of work to get ready to write it... 1544 01:37:01,532 --> 01:37:03,602 ...and they dismiss it in 36 words. 1545 01:37:03,603 --> 01:37:06,573 Do you want to read those reviews or do you want me to listen to your heart? 1546 01:37:06,594 --> 01:37:08,400 Oh, listen to my heart, go ahead, go ahead. 1547 01:37:14,000 --> 01:37:15,601 Put the plugs in your ears. 1548 01:37:16,602 --> 01:37:19,702 Well, if you wouldn't confuse me, talk, talk, talk... 1549 01:37:19,793 --> 01:37:22,403 - You doctors! - Shh! 1550 01:37:22,904 --> 01:37:25,204 - Well, there's nothing wrong with my heart. - Quiet! 1551 01:37:33,405 --> 01:37:35,380 Oh, you needn't pull that long face. 1552 01:37:35,399 --> 01:37:37,700 It's no worse than it's been for the last ten years. 1553 01:37:37,701 --> 01:37:39,401 Well, listen to it yourself. 1554 01:37:43,602 --> 01:37:45,852 See what I tell you, rustle-bang, rustle-bang... 1555 01:37:45,873 --> 01:37:47,153 Quiet! 1556 01:37:55,000 --> 01:37:56,354 Well? 1557 01:38:09,255 --> 01:38:11,055 It's not very good, is it? 1558 01:38:11,556 --> 01:38:14,556 It'll last till I do what I've got to do. 1559 01:38:14,657 --> 01:38:17,447 - It won't if you don't take it easy. - Why don't you take it easy? 1560 01:38:17,468 --> 01:38:19,148 - I do. - You're a liar. 1561 01:38:19,349 --> 01:38:21,449 You're a cantankerous woman. 1562 01:38:21,450 --> 01:38:23,750 You've always been a trial to me. 1563 01:38:23,771 --> 01:38:25,851 I like things easy. 1564 01:38:26,352 --> 01:38:28,652 How many beds have you got in this hospital now? 1565 01:38:28,683 --> 01:38:31,453 - Two hundred. - I remember when you only had twenty. 1566 01:38:31,484 --> 01:38:33,354 You like things easy. 1567 01:38:33,455 --> 01:38:35,755 Your father gave us two. 1568 01:38:37,556 --> 01:38:40,556 Mother managed that. Where did you get the others? 1569 01:38:40,597 --> 01:38:45,000 Oh, from people. Nellie was pretty good at persuading them. 1570 01:38:45,001 --> 01:38:47,701 Kevin Connors gave us ten. 1571 01:38:50,502 --> 01:38:52,502 You didn't know that, did you? 1572 01:38:58,603 --> 01:39:00,903 I saw Dorrie McIntyre the other day. 1573 01:39:00,904 --> 01:39:03,704 Do you remember her? She was your first case. 1574 01:39:04,304 --> 01:39:07,505 Her eldest daughter is training here as a nurse. 1575 01:39:08,105 --> 01:39:10,805 Her name's Elizabeth. 1576 01:39:11,506 --> 01:39:13,600 She's a fine girl. 1577 01:39:23,000 --> 01:39:25,201 You're a famous woman, Elizabeth. 1578 01:39:26,702 --> 01:39:31,900 I imagine I'm the only one left who knows what it's cost you. 1579 01:39:32,101 --> 01:39:36,601 And I'd like to take this opportunity to say quite formally... 1580 01:39:37,402 --> 01:39:40,102 it's a privilege to have known you. 1581 01:39:41,603 --> 01:39:43,302 Thank you. 1582 01:39:44,904 --> 01:39:48,300 Whatever you do, whatever happens, 1583 01:39:49,301 --> 01:39:54,301 remember the people are more important than the system. 1584 01:39:55,902 --> 01:39:59,302 That's true in government. They're fighting a war to prove it. 1585 01:40:00,403 --> 01:40:02,303 And it's true in medicine. 1586 01:40:03,004 --> 01:40:06,304 You've got that fight left, Elizabeth. 1587 01:40:07,505 --> 01:40:11,105 It's a big fight. It won't be easy. 1588 01:40:12,606 --> 01:40:14,606 I wish I could help you. 1589 01:40:15,607 --> 01:40:18,707 But you'll be a long way off and... 1590 01:40:21,408 --> 01:40:24,108 I'm getting old and... 1591 01:40:26,009 --> 01:40:27,409 Well... 1592 01:40:27,610 --> 01:40:29,110 I'm no chicken. 1593 01:40:31,211 --> 01:40:33,351 - You know what time it is, Dr. McDonnell? - Hm? 1594 01:40:33,372 --> 01:40:35,052 They're waiting for you in ward 7. 1595 01:40:35,153 --> 01:40:37,303 You'll need your white coat, and don't forget your glasses. 1596 01:40:37,324 --> 01:40:39,600 Oh, don't tell me what I'll need. Go on, go on, go on. 1597 01:40:39,621 --> 01:40:41,701 I'll need a new head nurse. 1598 01:40:42,102 --> 01:40:45,272 You know, it would have been nice if we'd had time for a long talk... 1599 01:40:45,293 --> 01:40:47,573 ...about all the people we used to know. 1600 01:40:48,774 --> 01:40:50,174 Oh, well... 1601 01:40:50,775 --> 01:40:54,400 There'll be time for that we you get back from America. 1602 01:41:05,701 --> 01:41:08,000 Sister Kenny! Sister Kenny, this way, please. 1603 01:41:08,301 --> 01:41:09,999 Hold it, please! Thank you. 1604 01:41:10,600 --> 01:41:12,000 This way, Kenny. 1605 01:41:13,001 --> 01:41:14,501 Thanks, honey. 1606 01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:17,202 One more, please. 1607 01:41:17,303 --> 01:41:19,303 Is this your first visit to America, Sister Kenny? 1608 01:41:19,324 --> 01:41:21,700 - That's right. - What do you think of San Francisco, Sister? 1609 01:41:22,201 --> 01:41:25,401 Well, if you ask me, it's getting a little too big for it's bridges. 1610 01:41:25,452 --> 01:41:29,112 - Sister, are you a nun? - A nun? Nothing as fine as that. 1611 01:41:29,133 --> 01:41:30,480 Then how come they call you Sister? 1612 01:41:30,499 --> 01:41:32,750 Oh, that's what they call an Army nurse in Australia. 1613 01:41:32,750 --> 01:41:33,971 - Oh. - What about the report... 1614 01:41:33,999 --> 01:41:35,800 ...of that Royal Commission, did it hurt you much? 1615 01:41:35,821 --> 01:41:37,800 Not as much as it hurt the children. 1616 01:41:37,821 --> 01:41:39,201 Give us the lowdown on doctors, Sister. 1617 01:41:39,220 --> 01:41:40,800 - The what? - The lowdown, the dope. 1618 01:41:40,831 --> 01:41:43,000 - The dirt, you know. - They say you've been pretty rough on them. 1619 01:41:43,061 --> 01:41:45,200 Isn't that what you're here for? To show up the doctors? 1620 01:41:45,221 --> 01:41:48,480 Certainly not. I'm here to do what I can for the children of America. 1621 01:41:48,499 --> 01:41:51,081 Oh, come on, Sister, we know what you think about doctors. 1622 01:41:51,099 --> 01:41:52,982 - Give us a headline. - Give us your honest opinion. 1623 01:41:52,983 --> 01:41:54,443 Very well, young man. 1624 01:41:54,464 --> 01:41:58,200 My honest opinion is that it's easier to criticize a doctor than to be one. 1625 01:41:58,201 --> 01:42:00,700 - So long, boys. - Thank you very much. 1626 01:42:00,731 --> 01:42:02,001 That's all right, that's all right. 1627 01:42:03,802 --> 01:42:07,102 Yes, it's the same old story. 1628 01:42:07,103 --> 01:42:09,953 From San Francisco to New York I've been given what I believe... 1629 01:42:09,974 --> 01:42:12,600 ...you Americans call the runaround. 1630 01:42:13,801 --> 01:42:18,601 Oh, I hadn't heard that one. The brush off. That's it. 1631 01:42:19,402 --> 01:42:22,902 The Doctor Bracks seem as strong here as they are in Australia. 1632 01:42:23,803 --> 01:42:26,700 Well, I had high hopes when I came to America. 1633 01:42:26,791 --> 01:42:30,101 But ever since Pearl Harbor I realize I've been wasting my time. 1634 01:42:30,602 --> 01:42:32,202 When do I sail? 1635 01:42:32,303 --> 01:42:33,402 Good. 1636 01:42:33,554 --> 01:42:36,104 Tell the Consul I'm very grateful. 1637 01:42:36,705 --> 01:42:39,205 Oh, yes. Of course I'll talk to him. Put him on. 1638 01:42:40,706 --> 01:42:42,106 Come in. 1639 01:42:45,107 --> 01:42:47,200 - Sister Kenny? - Yes? 1640 01:42:47,201 --> 01:42:50,000 - I'm from the New York Globe. - Oh, sit down, sit down. 1641 01:42:50,701 --> 01:42:52,501 Not on my luggage. 1642 01:42:53,202 --> 01:42:54,800 I haven't got anything to say. 1643 01:42:54,821 --> 01:42:57,201 Except that I'm going back to Australia, if that's news. 1644 01:42:57,202 --> 01:43:00,332 - That's news, alright, but wait a minute. - I've waited two years. 1645 01:43:00,373 --> 01:43:02,400 Yes. Oh, how do you do? 1646 01:43:03,601 --> 01:43:05,700 No, I'm afraid I can't reconsider. 1647 01:43:06,101 --> 01:43:07,500 Stop that! 1648 01:43:07,521 --> 01:43:10,800 Well, the only place that's shown any interest is the University of Minnesota. 1649 01:43:10,851 --> 01:43:12,401 Stop poking me! 1650 01:43:12,442 --> 01:43:14,602 Oh, no, I didn't mean you. 1651 01:43:14,883 --> 01:43:17,553 Well, I can't wait any longer for their report. 1652 01:43:17,554 --> 01:43:20,554 I'm afraid it'll drag on as long as the Royal Commission. 1653 01:43:20,585 --> 01:43:23,655 And... Well, frankly, I haven't any money left. 1654 01:43:24,156 --> 01:43:26,580 Thank you very much. I'll pick up the tickets right away. 1655 01:43:26,599 --> 01:43:28,051 - Sister Kenny... - You shouldn't interrupt people, young man. 1656 01:43:28,052 --> 01:43:29,150 - Where's your manners? - But Sister... 1657 01:43:29,170 --> 01:43:30,850 You heard what I said. I'm going back to Australia. 1658 01:43:30,871 --> 01:43:33,151 - I'll bet you don't. - What did you come here for? 1659 01:43:33,152 --> 01:43:35,282 Well, I thought maybe you'd like to read this. 1660 01:43:35,299 --> 01:43:37,350 Oh, who's calling me a quack this time? 1661 01:43:37,371 --> 01:43:38,651 - Read it. - I don't want to read it. 1662 01:43:38,673 --> 01:43:40,752 Well, then I guess you'll just have to listen to it. 1663 01:43:41,253 --> 01:43:46,000 Quote. We have no hesitation in saying that the Kenny method... 1664 01:43:46,031 --> 01:43:49,301 ...will form the basis for our future treatment. End quote. 1665 01:43:50,102 --> 01:43:54,402 Quote. Absolutely no deformities have materialized. 1666 01:43:54,403 --> 01:43:58,103 55% recoveries were registered in thirty-two days. 1667 01:43:58,144 --> 01:43:59,254 End quote. 1668 01:43:59,255 --> 01:44:01,355 They're talking about acute cases. 1669 01:44:01,376 --> 01:44:03,400 Yes, it says that here, from the University of Minnesota 1670 01:44:03,421 --> 01:44:04,801 Let me see this. 1671 01:44:05,402 --> 01:44:07,882 The big news is they've been hit by a bad epidemic... 1672 01:44:07,899 --> 01:44:10,180 ...of infantile paralysis in Minneapolis. 1673 01:44:10,199 --> 01:44:12,481 The people want you to go over there and set up a clinic. 1674 01:44:12,782 --> 01:44:15,982 The University wants you, the Board of Public Welfare wants you, 1675 01:44:15,999 --> 01:44:17,383 and the mayor wants you. 1676 01:44:17,399 --> 01:44:19,184 Now, are you going or aren't you? 1677 01:44:21,085 --> 01:44:24,000 Young man, have you ever been kissed by a woman my age? 1678 01:44:24,031 --> 01:44:26,461 - Huh? - Oh, never mind, never mind. 1679 01:44:26,482 --> 01:44:27,862 Pick up those bags. 1680 01:44:30,163 --> 01:44:32,200 Sister, where's your manners? 1681 01:44:33,501 --> 01:44:34,901 Please. 1682 01:44:44,502 --> 01:44:46,102 Oh, come on, Sister. 1683 01:44:46,143 --> 01:44:47,803 You've seen doctors before. 1684 01:44:50,004 --> 01:44:51,604 Not to hear me speak. 1685 01:44:52,005 --> 01:44:54,905 - Now, where were we? - You haven't dictated a word yet. 1686 01:44:54,906 --> 01:44:57,306 Oh. Er... Dear Dr. McDonnell. 1687 01:44:57,707 --> 01:44:58,900 Do you think you'll have time? 1688 01:44:58,931 --> 01:45:00,801 Oh, yes, yes. They're going through the wards first. 1689 01:45:01,702 --> 01:45:04,702 - Now, er... Where was I? - Dear Dr. McDonnell. 1690 01:45:05,603 --> 01:45:07,800 At the end of this letter... 1691 01:45:07,831 --> 01:45:12,500 I hope to add the greatest piece of news I've heard in 35 years. 1692 01:45:13,401 --> 01:45:17,301 The report of the National Committee has been investigating my work... 1693 01:45:17,352 --> 01:45:20,302 ...for the past 16 months in the United States. 1694 01:45:21,000 --> 01:45:25,103 That committee is composed of outstanding orthopedic men. 1695 01:45:26,404 --> 01:45:30,000 Yes, the walls of Jericho are really tumbling down. 1696 01:45:30,601 --> 01:45:32,901 I have every reason to believe... 1697 01:45:32,952 --> 01:45:36,602 ...that it will not be another fiasco like the Royal Commission. 1698 01:45:37,203 --> 01:45:40,503 If it is unfavorable, I shall have a spasm. 1699 01:45:41,404 --> 01:45:42,604 Spasm. 1700 01:45:42,635 --> 01:45:44,405 But more of this later. 1701 01:45:45,206 --> 01:45:49,406 Today is the climax of my three years' work in Minneapolis. 1702 01:45:50,107 --> 01:45:52,907 You won't believe a word of this, but it's true. 1703 01:45:54,108 --> 01:45:57,400 This morning I am lecturing to orthopedic surgeons. 1704 01:45:57,801 --> 01:45:59,501 Cross my heart. 1705 01:46:00,102 --> 01:46:02,002 My first lecture. 1706 01:46:02,503 --> 01:46:05,503 The first course of study at the new Institute. 1707 01:46:05,999 --> 01:46:08,604 Also, it is my birthday. 1708 01:46:08,695 --> 01:46:12,105 And by the way, don't go around telling people how old I am. 1709 01:46:12,196 --> 01:46:13,700 I don't like it. Oh... 1710 01:46:14,301 --> 01:46:17,501 Another thing. The new book is just out. 1711 01:46:17,998 --> 01:46:20,302 - Even Brack will have to read this one. - Brack? 1712 01:46:20,343 --> 01:46:22,104 B-R-A-C-K, Brack. 1713 01:46:22,804 --> 01:46:26,204 ...because it was written in collaboration with an orthopedic man. 1714 01:46:27,006 --> 01:46:29,900 The medical director of the Kenny Institute. 1715 01:46:30,201 --> 01:46:32,680 I am sending you a copy with this letter. 1716 01:46:32,681 --> 01:46:34,180 - Yes? - A cablegram, Sister. 1717 01:46:34,199 --> 01:46:35,381 Thank you. 1718 01:46:35,682 --> 01:46:37,882 I long to see Australia. 1719 01:46:38,283 --> 01:46:42,783 But since I cannot get away, you will have to come to America next year... 1720 01:46:42,999 --> 01:46:45,584 ...and see a "hepcap" bush nurse. 1721 01:46:45,900 --> 01:46:47,665 You won't know what that means. 1722 01:46:48,166 --> 01:46:50,266 It's an honorary degree. 1723 01:46:50,967 --> 01:46:55,300 Incidentally, I have three real honorary degrees. 1724 01:46:55,701 --> 01:47:00,801 I don't know why I am writing in such a familiar way to a mere MD. 1725 01:47:06,002 --> 01:47:07,602 Is that all? 1726 01:47:10,403 --> 01:47:12,203 Is that the end, Sister? 1727 01:47:15,604 --> 01:47:17,204 Yes. 1728 01:47:17,605 --> 01:47:19,305 But it's not finished. 1729 01:47:19,386 --> 01:47:22,006 You were going to add something about the report. 1730 01:47:22,077 --> 01:47:23,707 When it comes out. 1731 01:47:30,108 --> 01:47:32,908 Shall I type out what I have? 1732 01:47:35,309 --> 01:47:38,309 No... never mind. 1733 01:47:44,510 --> 01:47:46,810 The doctors are waiting for you, Sister. 1734 01:47:48,411 --> 01:47:49,711 Thank you. 1735 01:48:15,712 --> 01:48:17,512 Thank you, doctors. 1736 01:48:18,000 --> 01:48:19,813 Thank you very much. 1737 01:48:20,614 --> 01:48:24,400 I am not in the habit of being greeted so warmly by doctors. 1738 01:48:27,401 --> 01:48:30,401 Your laughter reminds me of an occasion many years ago... 1739 01:48:30,452 --> 01:48:32,502 ...when I was greeted by laughter. 1740 01:48:32,903 --> 01:48:35,603 It was however laughter of another sort. 1741 01:48:35,644 --> 01:48:37,750 It was because I used four words... 1742 01:48:37,771 --> 01:48:40,651 ...you are going to hear a great deal of during this course of study. 1743 01:48:42,052 --> 01:48:46,200 Spasm, alienation, incoordination and reeducation. 1744 01:48:46,301 --> 01:48:49,400 Before demonstrating their application, however, 1745 01:48:49,431 --> 01:48:52,999 the medical director has asked to make a few remarks. 1746 01:48:55,700 --> 01:48:58,450 I have Sister Kenny's permission to make a few remarks. 1747 01:48:58,481 --> 01:49:00,400 But not to say what I am going to say. 1748 01:49:00,491 --> 01:49:02,701 When she lays me out afterwards, 1749 01:49:03,802 --> 01:49:07,442 I'm going to tell her she opened the door by mentioning reeducation. 1750 01:49:07,553 --> 01:49:10,343 Gentlemen, that's what you're here for. 1751 01:49:10,394 --> 01:49:11,900 Reeducation. 1752 01:49:12,301 --> 01:49:16,201 Like myself, you went to Medical School, you worked hard for years. 1753 01:49:16,402 --> 01:49:19,302 Then, like myself, you went on into a very difficult branch 1754 01:49:19,453 --> 01:49:21,803 ...which required more years of study. 1755 01:49:22,304 --> 01:49:26,304 You've piled up experience and today you feel that you're thoroughly qualified men. 1756 01:49:26,375 --> 01:49:30,605 Hard as it is to learn, it is even more difficult to unlearn. 1757 01:49:31,806 --> 01:49:35,106 As an American humorist, Artemus Ward, said many years ago, 1758 01:49:35,207 --> 01:49:38,500 it ain't the things we don't know that causes all the trouble, 1759 01:49:38,531 --> 01:49:40,501 it's the things we do know that ain't so. 1760 01:49:42,502 --> 01:49:45,402 I'm well aware that not all of you are convinced. 1761 01:49:45,433 --> 01:49:49,303 But the fact that you are here from all parts of the United States and Canada, 1762 01:49:49,344 --> 01:49:51,604 is proof that you are open-minded men. 1763 01:49:52,205 --> 01:49:54,605 In my opinion, had Miss Kenny been a doctor, 1764 01:49:54,756 --> 01:49:57,807 this controversy would not have gone on for 35 years. 1765 01:49:58,207 --> 01:50:00,207 And I'm equally sure... 1766 01:50:00,208 --> 01:50:02,908 and I say this at the risk of life and limb, 1767 01:50:04,309 --> 01:50:08,459 that if Sister Kenny herself had used a little more sugar and a little less vinegar, 1768 01:50:08,490 --> 01:50:11,000 the salad would have been more to our taste. 1769 01:50:12,201 --> 01:50:16,201 But you can't fight for 35 years, gentlemen, without the use of vinegar. 1770 01:50:16,252 --> 01:50:19,202 However, all these petty things should be swept aside. 1771 01:50:19,503 --> 01:50:22,303 What we are concerned about is the lives of children. 1772 01:50:22,404 --> 01:50:24,204 Not our personal feelings. 1773 01:50:24,205 --> 01:50:25,845 As true physicians, 1774 01:50:25,846 --> 01:50:28,706 we want to find the best possible treatment for this disease... 1775 01:50:28,746 --> 01:50:33,200 that afflicted 19,000 children last year in the United States alone. 1776 01:50:40,000 --> 01:50:41,601 Thank you, doctor. 1777 01:50:42,302 --> 01:50:43,800 Now, Tommy... 1778 01:50:44,001 --> 01:50:47,701 You see here a typical case in the convalescence stage. 1779 01:50:47,732 --> 01:50:51,002 The acute stage has passed, the pain is all gone... 1780 01:50:51,003 --> 01:50:52,903 ...but the real difficulties now begin. 1781 01:50:53,404 --> 01:50:57,100 We have here what is known as apparent or functional paralysis. 1782 01:50:57,131 --> 01:50:59,201 What I call alienation... Yes? 1783 01:51:04,002 --> 01:51:07,200 Doctors, I have just been told... 1784 01:51:07,231 --> 01:51:10,501 ...that the report of the National Committee is coming through on the radio. 1785 01:51:10,882 --> 01:51:13,002 They're putting it on the loudspeaker. 1786 01:51:14,803 --> 01:51:16,503 ...with the Kenny treatment as without it. 1787 01:51:16,504 --> 01:51:20,474 And in conclusion, the five specialists who've composed the committee... 1788 01:51:20,475 --> 01:51:23,775 ...report that they find no evidence the Kenny treatment reverts... 1789 01:51:23,796 --> 01:51:26,176 ...or decreases the amount of paralysis. 1790 01:51:26,600 --> 01:51:31,287 I quote. "We criticize the oft-repeated statements of Miss Kenny, 1791 01:51:31,299 --> 01:51:34,000 ...to patients who have to come to her after treatment elsewhere, 1792 01:51:34,039 --> 01:51:38,889 that had this case come to her early, the disability would have been prevented. 1793 01:51:38,890 --> 01:51:41,800 Such statements are not founded on fact. 1794 01:51:41,901 --> 01:51:43,101 End quote. 1795 01:51:43,152 --> 01:51:46,100 The entire report of the committee is a severe criticism... 1796 01:51:46,141 --> 01:51:48,801 ...of Sister Kenny and her supporters. 1797 01:51:48,832 --> 01:51:53,600 And with respect to her claims for recoveries, she is accused of, quote, 1798 01:51:53,633 --> 01:51:57,903 "Deliberate misrepresentation of the facts of treatments by other methods. 1799 01:51:57,934 --> 01:51:58,999 End quote. 1800 01:52:03,700 --> 01:52:06,800 I don't know what evidence the National Committee considered, 1801 01:52:06,999 --> 01:52:09,901 but we who are using the Kenny treatment here in Minneapolis, 1802 01:52:09,902 --> 01:52:11,900 have observed her work sufficiently long... 1803 01:52:11,921 --> 01:52:14,700 to know that crooked, shortened limbs and twisted bodies... 1804 01:52:14,721 --> 01:52:18,051 ...are not a necessary consequence of this disease. 1805 01:52:18,082 --> 01:52:22,452 Because these tragedies do not occur in the Kenny-treated cases in Minneapolis. 1806 01:52:22,493 --> 01:52:25,100 As medical director of the Elizabeth Kenny Institute, 1807 01:52:25,121 --> 01:52:29,251 I have no hesitation in saying it is time to abolish antiquated methods... 1808 01:52:29,299 --> 01:52:33,652 ...which allow children to suffer deformities from infantile paralysis 1809 01:52:38,653 --> 01:52:43,053 That's a very fine speech, doctor, but I'm getting tired of being polite about it. 1810 01:52:43,154 --> 01:52:45,855 Crippled children are more important than medical etiquette. 1811 01:52:45,885 --> 01:52:49,500 Year after year committees investigate the ideas of Sister Kenny. 1812 01:52:49,541 --> 01:52:52,701 But who ever investigated the brains of the committees? 1813 01:52:52,742 --> 01:52:54,502 I did, young man. 1814 01:52:54,543 --> 01:52:56,800 I've survived worse blows than this... 1815 01:52:57,301 --> 01:52:59,501 ...when I had fewer friends. 1816 01:52:59,502 --> 01:53:02,002 This is a problem of man's own mind. 1817 01:53:02,603 --> 01:53:04,803 When we speak with the voice of authority, 1818 01:53:04,854 --> 01:53:07,604 we finally come to believe that we are authority... 1819 01:53:07,635 --> 01:53:09,505 ...and not just its voice. 1820 01:53:10,006 --> 01:53:12,206 This report will do damage. 1821 01:53:12,297 --> 01:53:16,507 Not to me, but to thousands of children who may be deprived of proper treatment. 1822 01:53:17,108 --> 01:53:20,500 I do think the personal attack is unworthy of this, gentlemen. 1823 01:53:20,651 --> 01:53:24,700 I have never knowingly misrepresented facts. I don't have to. 1824 01:53:24,851 --> 01:53:27,501 And I owe too much to doctors to be embittered. 1825 01:53:27,502 --> 01:53:30,900 I owe too much to America to feel anything but gratitude. 1826 01:53:31,101 --> 01:53:34,601 In America, my treatment was tried for the first time on acute cases. 1827 01:53:34,802 --> 01:53:38,502 In America I have been able to work side by side with specialists. 1828 01:53:38,803 --> 01:53:42,703 And don't think this work has gone unnoticed even beyond the borders of this country. 1829 01:53:42,904 --> 01:53:45,800 Infantile paralysis doesn't know anything about national borders, 1830 01:53:45,821 --> 01:53:47,800 races, creeds, colors, rich or poor, 1831 01:53:47,831 --> 01:53:50,500 ...and neither, thank God, does medical science. 1832 01:53:50,531 --> 01:53:53,701 Oh, I have fought doctors. In the bush and in the city. 1833 01:53:53,702 --> 01:53:56,202 And, as you say here, I haven't pulled any punches. 1834 01:53:56,243 --> 01:53:57,900 And neither have they. 1835 01:53:57,931 --> 01:54:01,601 They're stubborn, headstrong, cantankerous, domineering, quibbling people. 1836 01:54:01,752 --> 01:54:03,502 And they're wonderful. 1837 01:54:03,533 --> 01:54:06,000 The very fact they fought so bitterly for what they believed... 1838 01:54:06,021 --> 01:54:07,500 ...has made me respect them. 1839 01:54:07,521 --> 01:54:09,900 If any group of men can give a better account of themselves... 1840 01:54:09,921 --> 01:54:12,001 when they come to meet their maker... 1841 01:54:13,402 --> 01:54:15,000 Forgive me, gentlemen. 1842 01:54:16,101 --> 01:54:19,601 I am thinking of a doctor who was very close to me in this work. 1843 01:54:20,702 --> 01:54:22,402 He was a very good man. 1844 01:54:27,003 --> 01:54:30,003 And now... to return to the subject... 1845 01:54:30,904 --> 01:54:33,204 ...of teaching these muscles to walk again. 1846 01:54:37,005 --> 01:54:39,005 You haven't touched your tea, Sister. 1847 01:54:40,106 --> 01:54:42,606 Oh, I was thinking. 1848 01:54:52,800 --> 01:54:54,207 What's that? 1849 01:54:54,258 --> 01:54:55,408 I don't know. 1850 01:55:17,000 --> 01:55:23,409 Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday to you 1851 01:55:23,410 --> 01:55:28,310 Happy Birthday, dear Sister 1852 01:55:28,411 --> 01:55:33,000 Happy Birthday to you 1853 01:55:33,151 --> 01:55:37,301 Happy Birthday to you 1854 01:55:37,402 --> 01:55:41,882 Happy Birthday to you 1855 01:55:41,983 --> 01:55:47,083 Happy Birthday, dear Sister 1856 01:55:47,184 --> 01:55:51,284 Happy Birthday to you 153808

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