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Let them read it carefully From its first entry on that ill-starred day July the 13th July 13th today I bought a small Capuchin monkey from an organ grinder the animal trembled with fear when I took it into my laboratory and when I tried to Pet it it bit me I had to make it trust me completely fear causes an excess secretion of adrenal and resulting in an Abnormal condition of the bloodstream which would throw off my observations So I fed it and finally the creature voluntarily crept up into my arms uttering little whimpers of content And it laid its head against my shoulder. I stabbed it the surgical lancet It died instantly Well, david, what do you think of it? Well, it's pretty amazing. All right. See what I've done, don't you? I I think you'll think so good lord. Don't you know well after all dad. I'm only a second-year medical student What up? I was a second-year student. Who is it? It's me janice. Come in darling. Patrick. Dr. Schrat is here to see you Oh, come on in doctor You know our son david, of course. Yes, of course. How are you my boy? Fine. Thanks, dr. Well, patrick. Hard added as usual. I see patrick. You didn't eat the lunch. I sent in to you What is it this time patrick a brain what a brain a brain a monkey's brain Oh, what about the brain patrick? I've been trying to see how long I can keep the tissue alive Is that it in that jar? Well, it's considerably more to it than just a jar though. Want to see how it works? Is it still alive? Yes, it's a fairly simple device actually doctor variation Corell's mechanical heart the brain lies in a bath of blood serum these Rubber arteries are fixed to the vertebral and internal Carroted arteries of the brain the blood substance is forced through the cycle of willis feed the tissue Over here. I've installed a small rotary pump that forces the blood circulation. You see but how do you know it's alive? It's very easy to determine the brain when functioning gives off infinitesimal electrical impulses They can be measured as a matter of fact. I've hooked the encephalograph up to a small amplifying system. The brain impulses can actually be heard Here, I'll turn it off You see Guide effective, isn't it? Yes, it's effective And it's it's wrong patrick terribly wrong. I've tried to tell him dr. Schrat In heaven's name. What's wrong with it? Oh patrick you and your mechanistic philosophy trying to reduce life to a mere matter of chemicals and test tubes the origin of life is from a higher domain than that patrick And your profanity nonsense you can't stop the progress of science every discovery whatever kind is a step forward If I can prove that the brain can perform certain functions outside the body Who knows where we may be able to go from there? Oh patrick, how do you know that thing in there doesn't feel pain? How do you know it isn't writhing in agony brain tissue itself is insensitive, you know that That's a feeling look I'll switch on the encephalograph See There Notice the faintness of the amplified alpha rays notice the comparatively slow rate of pulsation now Notice what happens might tap on the glass jar Isn't it faint? I wouldn't go so far as to say that but it certainly shows marked reaction to an external stimulus I wouldn't have believed it possible. The trouble you thought is that you don't really believe in science But your own way patrick that when you can manufacture love and sympathy and kindness and a test tube I'll be back you leading over Patrick Shut off the pump and let that poor thing in there die. Let it die But we're within my power to grant that little brain Would live forever I'm utterly exhausted from lack of sleep at the events of the past five days have been of such tremendous importance That I must set them down while every last detail is still fresh in my mind I've had no time to make an entry in this record since that day last week It seems a month ago now and I had my first partial success with the brain of the capuchin monkey That time however, it seemed that I was doomed to disappointment in spite of all my efforts The brain of the monkey ceased to live at 12 14 that night Tired and disheartened I lay down to sleep on the cart in my laboratory But at that very moment Fate was contriving an occurrence which now seems destined to have the most profound effect not only upon my own existence And perhaps upon that of all mankind Huh, hello Hello, what is it dad? Oh david come in come in. It's the matter. It's dr. Schratt. There's been an accident or something He's pretty upset patrick. Thank heavens my boy It's the matter of what there's there's been a plane crash on the mountain only one of them was left alive and I've I've brought him this far, but he needs an immediate operation. That's your job. You're counter physician patrick It's it's multiple fractures of both legs. Harder is the seven the legs will have to be amputated Do you're not in any shape to do the job? Well, I well, that's not my fault. Take him to the phoenix hospital I'm not going to take response. It's too far. We never get there in time of patrick Please and it made me in a man's life and and your job is counter physician. No, no, I'm not thinking of that But it's it's an important man Will you make donovan donovan don't The wall street donovan. Yes, you've got to help me patrick donovan What is chances about even if we hurry well bring him in. Oh, thank you patrick. Thank you You'd better get some things on david. You may have to help Yes, uh, and we use the laboratory table before you go put the instruments the sterilizer And don't forget the gillie saw right. Oh, but but what? I thought the gillie saw was only used for for for brain surgery Hmm not always hurry. They're bringing me now from the car In here. That's right easy to round the table, please You better get yourself a gown and gloves doctor right over there. You won't have time to scrum. Yes Bad isn't he pulse wrapping Aren't very faint. I wasn't sure David, uh, heart cc of adrenaline david one to one thousand to venus right you men can go now Is there anything else we can do? No, thank you patrick. I don't you think I'd rather we were alone if you don't mind gentlemen Good night then dr. Schreier Good night. Now david david if you remove the blanket from his legs, that's yeah You see Fortunately a forest ranger got to him right after the crash Had sense enough to put a turnip cut on each leg even so Sure sure sure Sure sure sure we'll get it Sure sure sure it's a saying something like sure sure sure he said it over and over Huh, I hadn't realized he was deformed. It doesn't show as much in his pictures Patrick don't you think we ought to begin? Oh, there's no use amputating those legs No use. He'd be dead anyway by morning Well, won't it? Suppose you're right patrick, you know, I'm right, but still we ought to try we can't refuse to operate just because we are going to operate Serange, please david the large one here. You are dead. It's my anesthetic. Will you give it dr. Schreier? Right scalpel, please david scalpel and The jeely saw jeely saw patrick. Well, no no patrick. I won't let you after your performance tonight Well, I had but patrick. He's still alive precisely my mistake with a monkey was that he was dead I don't intend to make that mistake again. Come on david the scalpel. Are you out of your mind? You're you're you're taking a man's life I'm giving him life Donovan would die anyway But for a while at least Donovan's brain Will live For the body pretty sure you can go now david. I think I will then You understand of course I understand not a word a word to your mother More to anyone. I understand Did you put something in the skull cavity for the eyes? I filled it with cotton bandage. The whole cranium would look like any head injury I hope nobody gets any ideas about an autopsy. You're the coroner you've stopped there. Look Schrods This is a chance that comes once in a lifetime William Donovan had one of the greatest minds Has one of the greatest brains A world today and now you have it. It's been on the encephalogram Simple alpha waves of course so different from the monkeys You can't take a human brain out of its body and expect it to function. I suppose not but Schrods Did it ever occur to you that the brain might simply be asleep sleep certainly An operation like that is this would be a shock tap on the glass Lord patrick delta waves It was a sleepy woke it up It it's actually conscious. You see you see the three of us Three of us conducting this experiment now You and me And william holless donovan July 25th, I moved my bed into the laboratory, but I've scarcely slept in six days I've been no longer any doubt that the brain responds like a sensitive seismograph to vibrations near it including the sound of my voice Yet I've found no method of communication with it I've devised a simplified morse code consisting of taps on the glass container together with voice vibrations Perhaps Perhaps I can teach the brain July 30th Schrods has come to stay with me half out of a feeling that he shares with me a common guilt half out of scientific curiosity I've scarcely seen him and both david and janis have been avoiding me. Not that I really care You've been tapping out my code on the side of the brain's container endlessly day and night over and over a thousand times So that a baby could learn it if the brain can learn I sleep only when the brain itself falls into exhausted slumber When it wakes again, I resume my tapping I want to show you the matter. Yes, old boy. I want to show you something Patrick you look like a ghost. Where are we going back to the laboratory? I can't believe it myself. I May have been dreaming delirians. What's happened? Come on. You hear that? Delta waves Seems disturbed. You've got to check my observations for me if my reasoning is wrong. Tell me I can't be sure of anything anymore Now listen carefully You know that I've been trying to communicate with the brain in code now If I were able to cause a distinctive pattern of the brain's delta waves by a specific command in code If the brain responded with the same pattern of sound each time I issued the command It would prove that I'd succeeded in communicating with the brain, wouldn't it? Yes, Patrick, I think it would. Now listen Donovan If you understand Think three times of the word talk three times Talk it answered it spoke then I'm right. It's true. This thing has learned to talk To talk July 31st Charlotte's romanticizing of course the delta pattern is so infinitely complex that it would be utterly impossible Ever to break it down into specific words yet that it understands me That it's trying to communicate with me is certain Charlotte suggests mental telepathy that I try to Make my mind a blank as the mediums call it Well at the same time increasing the energy content of the plasma that feeds the brain and the Hope of stepping up the brain's electrical potential as one would step up the power of a radio station Naturally telepathy is nonsense, but The feeding theory intrigues me I shall try it August 12th Notice today for the first time two distinct nodules of new brain cells on the frontal lobex electrical potential has increased to 510 microvolts I I've become smoking cigars Although I've always hated cigars before As I expect August 22nd nodules still growing electrical potential 1450 with no observable results lately felt a compelling urge to know more of donovan's life and have collected every available scrap of information about him a strange man he was strange ruthless Evil in many ways But nonetheless an extraordinarily brilliant mind We got What is it? I thought I had to wake you up. Patrick. You were moaning in your sleep talking talking what I say I'm not sure but your voice was so strange that Dennis, what's the matter? It's nothing. Nothing. I was dreaming. That's all jannis woke me up. Patrick Let me see your hand No, the other one. What about it? You're not left-handed. Are you no Then why have you got ink on the fingers of your left hand? Well, were you writing anything tonight? Here it is right here on your desk nonsense Wait, let me see it Well, you've been writing his name William H. Donovan. Donovan shot. That's not my handwriting. It's what Don't you see what it means? The brain has communicated with me. Patrick, you don't look here Look at this magazine article. He has a reproduction of his signature And he was left-handed too. It says so here. Well, it is it It is exactly the same fool. I've been looking at these pictures smoking a cigar with his left hand I wondered why it certainly started smoking cigars the same brand too. Janice try to remember what you heard me saying Just before you woke me up. Come on Janice Think Patrick. I I can't believe think Janice All I heard was something like Sure sure sure sure of course. Don't you remember schrott? He said it that night. It was the only thing we ever heard him say It it it was an expression of his it tells about that one of the articles too. Yes, there it is It wasn't your voice my voice you see the brain has grown And it's strong enough to influence not only the higher functions the frontal lobe at the speech centers the motor centers Of another brain Patrick if this is true then your experiment has been successful. It's ended ended It's only begun Patrick. Don't you see what this means? Patrick listen to me. Oh, what Janice? What you got to stop Stop I can't stand it any longer Can't you see where it's led you? When you cut yourself off from your family when you neglected your health began having fits of temper and were like Like someone I hardly recognizes the man. I married All that I tried to understand But don't you see what you've done? You are a murderer Patrick a murderer Janice darling told me the whole thing The poor boys have insane himself from worry same What do you mean by that what I say You killed Donovan Maybe he wouldn't have did it anyway, but you killed him and now this this thing has gained such power over your mind That it can make you do things you don't even know about For all you know, it could make you do anything anything You've got to choose Patrick. Oh Janice, please I suppose you're right, but I'm utterly exhausted. I can't even think anymore You've got to think give me until tomorrow. Let me sleep and tomorrow I'll do something. I promise you all right Patrick tomorrow But if you don't do something if you don't destroy that thing, I will The brain It's almost as though it hurt you when we're raging Raging at you This way, please dr. Brian. Come on darling But Patrick Why are we going in here a psychiatric clinic? I told you I'd do something Janice. I've I've got an idea You mean you're you're having yourself psychoanalyzed something like that something like that. I'll tell you about it later First I want I want you to talk to this man alone Dr. Zanger, this is dr. Corey. How do you do dr. Corey? How do you do something in your work? Oh, yes And this is mrs. Cory of course. Excuse me. I'm happy to meet you mrs. Corey. Thank you, dr Won't you come in tomorrow? I will certainly Janice. Would you mind dining waiting in the reception? It won't be out in just a moment. Thank you. Why certainly do you in here, please doctor? It will Doctor she seems quite normal. I'd expected from what you told me on the telephone. I I know I I know I I can assure you I I I hate to tell you this but uh Doctor, she's quite insane. I see. Yes Paranoia She's always been, you know jealous of my work and well last little while she started she's got a delusion that she thinks I've made some kind of a monster and up in my laboratory that controls my mind and controls my actions So I'm I'm putting her completely in your hands. Oh Well, it's of course a little unusual but since you are yourself a medical man, that's right You definitely wish to commit her then Yes Yes, you have the papers. Oh, yeah, here you are. Just your signature will be enough, doctor There you are You let me know about everything, won't you? Oh, naturally, doctor. We keep you informed Thank you. Well, goodbye then, dr. Corey. We will do what we can. Oh, all right Patrick, mrs. Corey is staying with us, mrs. Wilcox. Yes, doctor Patrick Mrs. Corey just come with me, please Where are you going? Let me go About the bill. How do you wish it to be handled? Uh the bill The The bill for sure I'll take care of it by the week The checks will be signed The William H. Donovan sure sure sure August 20th, it's nearly three weeks now since Janice went away I can't understand how she could have left me just when I needed her most When I try to question Schradt or David about it. They only look at me strangely and change the subject clearly They tune our in on the conspiracy. Sometimes it seems the only person I can trust is Donovan the brain Communicates with me more freely now each day. I know it has some great plan in mind for me for both of us I'm waiting Wait Donovan I'm listening Donovan Don't be angry Donovan. I'm trying to understand I'm listening Donovan. I'm listening And so closes Donovan's brain Part one the first of two half-hour presentations of kutziad max story presenting orson wells as star of Suspense suspense is produced and directed by william spear We sincerely hope you enjoyed the performance of orson wells and that of the whole cast tonight in our roma suspense play And that you'll make a note to be sure not to miss the completion of this story next week The roma wine company would like to express its thanks for the many letters of appreciation from listeners Which we are constantly receiving saying how much you enjoy these broadcasts and here's a thought To discover the enjoyment these suspense programs offer you first had to sample one And so you must first sample one of the many delicious roma wines to discover for yourself their wonderful taste and quality The excellence that makes roma america's largest selling wines You'll discover as of other millions before you that roma wines are super quality Are super tasting and are super easy on your pocketbook too costing only pennies a glass Be sure you get r o m a roma wines made in california for enjoyment throughout the world The greatest and most profitable investment you can make in your country's future is to buy war bonds Don't forget then next monday. 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