 The story of Dr. Kildare What's where the house I enter there will I go for the benefit of the sick and whatsoever things I see or hear concerning the life of men I will keep silence there on counting such things to be held as sacred trust. I will exercise my art solely The story of Dr. Kildare starring Lou Ayres and Lionel Barrymore Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer brought you those famous motion pictures Now this exciting heartwarming series is heard on radio in just a moment the story of Dr. Kildare But first your announcer If you put a little anoleum on the floor of your cabin when you get back to the Adirondacks You mean he picked up some kind of germ played on the wood floor. No, no I mean he picked up a splinter sitting on the wood floor. Oh That's all it was All young fellow who drove me down here sure gonna be sore you breaking up his hunting trip because of a splinter You got bus fare to get the baby back home. Jack. I've got enough if I don't have to pay you right off Well, it was major surgery removing that splinter. I got a couple of hogs fattening back home I'll pay you as soon as I get them to mark it Never mind yet I'll take it out of your guide V next season if dr. Gillespie and I come up to do some hunting Oh, that sure swell you I'd like to say hello to dr. Gillespie while I'm here Good you'll find him across the hall in his office Meanwhile, I'll try to square things with the man who drove you down. Where is he? He's sitting on the bench in the next room said he'd wait until he knew the baby was all right His name is breveton John breveton breveton. Yeah sounds familiar played football up at that Harvard College No, no, I was thinking of the name in terms of medicine Well, you run in and see dr. Gillespie. Well, thank you again dr. Kildare and don't worry I'll send you your pay soon as I sell my heart Mr. Breveton Hello doctor and just wanted to tell you that Jed's baby's all right. Huh? That's fine. Mm-hmm kid tried all the way down. I Matter aren't you feeling well? I Guess I'm just tired You're kind of funny Better get to hotel. Hey easy Hmm afraid we'd better get you to bed right here and now look here dr. Gillespie Infected area on the right hand. I'm sorry Sulfurated to very tender and hurts him easily and yet the infected area is unusually hard to the touch Well, how about that the moment of reading Parker or are you waiting for the patient to swallow it? doctor 105.2 Dr. Gillespie this young man's been hunting up at Jed's place in the Adirondacks And he's been drinking raw milk, but I'll bet it's undue and fever We'll have to keep a close check on his temperature a doctor this alteration on his hands a simple boil has nothing to do with his fever This fever doctor is it a pretty bad thing? Oh, I think we've caught it plenty of time But my father's a doctor. Oh, I don't know what's coast Ralph revered all the neurosurgeon Thought the name was familiar. You've heard of him. Dr. Gillespie. Oh, I've read his papers. Will you Send the telegram for me Ask it and fly out. You bet. I'll see it goes off right away. Oh, is Jed still in your office, doctor? Yeah, and we better have another look at that baby until Jed to have his milk cow check I want to ask him about more than that Jimmy are you disagreeing with my diagnosis on exactly not yet? But I don't think mr. Brevard in his suffering from undue and fever Well, doc, he did act kind of funny driving down here, but we drove most the night and I thought he just plain tire He was all right yesterday though. Oh in great shape felt fine because he bagged a bear yesterday afternoon a big one Got it with one shot and we lugged it back to the cabin. He skinned it itself Confounded Jimmy. Let's get to the point did Brevard and drink any milk at your place, Jed Well, sure right from old bossy yourself as your answer Jimmy might be if Jed or the baby showed any symptoms of undue and fever But they don't they may have built up an immunity possible But there's something I want to see Jed Do you have the hide and carcass of the bear Brevard and shot sure still up at the cabin And you're going to get a special ride home in a hospital car the man that goes with you can bring the bears carcass and hide back with him Brevard hasn't been drinking bears milk. He's been drinking cow's milk. I'm afraid Brevard in trouble doesn't come from anything He drank it comes from something he shot and skin What you're looking for just isn't on that slide then will you tell me what's on your mind? Because it's too fantastic until I'm Jimmy Taking me long enough time to and I don't wonder that you've been avoiding me deliberately after what you've done. Dr. Karoo. I'm not killer all I want is an explanation All the way through you haven't got one as to why a player hospital car has been sent to the Adirondack Mountains without my being consulted I asked the driver of the car to bring back The carcass of a dead bear but an animal shot by one of our patients Dr. Kildare You are using a Blair hospital car as a Taxicad for a dead bear. Oh, I don't suppose either of you has given a thought to the embarrassing position You have placed me in I tell you firmly that this must never happen again. Oh, it won't grow We may not have another dead bear round. I find your sense of humor most inappropriate inappropriate remember Dr. Kildare I warned you in the future you will consult me Send somebody up here with a straight jacket. Let's be look at this animal Swelling in the subcutaneous connective tissues in the lymphatic glands, right? And if breveton hadn't shot this beard would have died anyhow in a matter of hours died from what? The oldest and most deadly animal disease in the world anthrax anthrax Yes, why dad blasted Jimmy? There's never been a case of anthrax in this state in your lifetime or mine There is now but I should have gone ahead before I only hope there's enough time left to save breveton's life I'd better go check the war you stay right where you are Parker. I'm gonna need you What for to make laboratory tests on this best you'll dare look like a jacket sure doc I never heard of anthrax setting a human and it's rare My hand Doesn't even pay in anymore That's because gangrene is setting in immediate excision of the ulcerated area is necessary I mean you won't operate. It's imperative My father you wired him. Yes. He's a surgeon. He should be here in a few hours I'm going to be blunt breveton. If we wait an hour that hand might have to be annotated If we wait three or four hours you might die of septicemia you Know your business doc. I think I do Might sound like much of an ambition to you I will always plan on playing pro football some day except you whether I do or not There's a dr. Kildare. Please prepare a room for surgery Good thing. He's an athlete though rugged Gun him on anti-ceram and penicillin if he doesn't respond I'm gonna watch him. You better go and get some sleep I suppose so. Parker tells me you ran lab tests on the bear while I was operating Oh, Parker talks too much old backfending. I don't have to hold anything back You didn't find any sign of anthrax, did you? Well You know how tricky it can be There were some indications of malignant pustules and spores but none you could classify as bacillus anthraxus No, Jimmy. No, no, I'm afraid not. Oh, that must be mr. Bravenin's father I'll see you away. Oh dr. Bravenin. I'm dr. Kildare. How do you do doctor? Your son is in room 311 I'll take you up there now. It won't be necessary for you to see him again The chief of staff dr. Kuru has given me permission to care for my boy personally What's on your mind dr. Bravenin? I have been at the hospital for several hours dr. Kildare since early this morning During those hours. I have run laboratory tests on the animal my son shot There is absolutely no trace of anthrax then the tests are not complete. They're complete enough Especially since there's never been a case of anthrax within a thousand miles of here You've made a very grave mistake my diagnosis was and is anthrax I'll stake my professional reputation on it. You have state your professional reputation on it doctor You did that when you performed surgery on that boy's hand without clinical proof. Good day, sir How wait listen to me your son's life may depend on continuation of anti serum injections or anthrax You're being absurd. Now, please let me run another series of lab tests. I'll prove it to you. That won't be possible I'm satisfied with my own tests and dr. Kuru ordered that all test tissues be destroyed And to the story of dr. Kildare in just the moment Young brevitton's father used to be going up for a look at our patient dr. Bravenin has taken the case out of my hands He's made tests just as you did didn't find any signs of anthrax either And so am I and it's deceptive you said so yourself. Well, if you're right, there'll be other cases turning here Yes, but we're wasting valuable hours waiting for an animal epidemic instead of trying to stop one I'm afraid we haven't heard the last of it Yeah, Jimmy and whatever you may possibly have to say for yourself. How can you possibly say it until he shuts up? We're disgraced I'm a disgrace. That's clear How can you sit there calmly when you know that I have been asked to take you up there hospital doctor away from a case? You he's done nothing to harm young brevitton. That is your opinion dr. Gillespie. I just know that dr. Brevitton is going to bring charges of malpractice malpractice everything you have done has been done without my knowledge and consent I'm quite prepared to take the blame for anything. I may have done dr. Grew you want isn't it your white wash Now suppose you just run along with me. I'm not going to take this sitting down if I'm right There's a lot to be done Jimmy all you can do is wait if you're right There won't be just one case. He'll be an outbreak must be prepared for it Grew me yelling head-off but I'm placing an order for large quantities of anthrax anise serum just in case It's no use you won't be able to get a single cc. You mean crew's taken away my right to order supply No, I mean I've already placed an order for every available supply of the anti serum in this area and for all that should be made but You found no evidence of anthrax in your tests. Well With the way crew and Parker have been buzzing around one of them may bite somebody That would be enough to start an epidemic of anything up here. I got work to do Thanks, dr. Bless me. Okay, we are going to have trouble in the stock Huh, I told dr. Kilday our sticks and paying for taking care of the baby as soon as sold my hogs But dang if they didn't get took with something and start dying off on me dying from watch it Nothing I ever see before two of them was dead and I went to feed them last night The old sow kicked off this morning and some of the others ain't too chipper Sneaking up behind me get busy get that kid out of the car and set it up in here. Yes, sir Is it something serious doc? It may be mighty serious You better send your wife and children away for a few days until we get this thing stopped Oh, what do you think it is doc? I'll tell you after I see those pigs of yours Get one of men here Emphatic glands pulse and breathing unusually rapid excessive enlargement of the spleen See if those bugs are ready to come out in the open Will you said yourself attention to your work? You wouldn't be hearing everything I said Department of Health get slide that's from German measles unless the measles were wearing help We're going to need every man we can get every veterinarian in the state will be here in a matter of we better get busy You can save many human lives if you'll follow my plan. Where do you want me to do stay here until the veterinarians? Arrive and then help them with the animals Other doctors out and cruise as soon as they arrive Dr. Gillespie you should have been a general you mean instead of a Diagnostic no, no, no That's about exhausted coming up the road from the village Stopping down by our car brings him up here. Hmm. Got a feeling it isn't anything good There's no time look a gift for us in the mob Jimmy. We can use them. It's all right kill there. I want to see you Yes, doctor and stand play kill there. Perhaps this paper will change your mind take it What is this restraining order I obtained prohibiting you from mistreating other people the way you've mistreated my son You're not good at camouflage. You're incompetent any further Dr. Gillespie, please don't interfere I have great respect for you and your reputation, but I will not permit this hoax to continue Not until I bring killed there before a state board of medical examiners Dr. Brevet and there is an anthrax outbreak in this area if you will go out behind the barn You will find two men preparing a lime pit in less than an hour It'll be used for that goat standing over there. Take a look at that goat dr. Brevet and it has just about enough time left in This world to eat that restraining order you brought Go ahead look at it. Well, I I know very little about animals. What do you have to know? Internal temperature 160 degrees gangrenous swelling trembling no muscular control and I have definitely found Basilis anthraxis we can use your help for what what what do you suggest I do all the people have been taken care of But the veterinarians will need assistance for the animals in the field. I'm a doctor not a veterinarian I hope you are a doctor because it's a doctor's job to help wherever he can an Infected animal can infect and kill a man or deprive him of his livelihood by destroying his other stock. Well, then I Let's go. No, no, no, wait a minute. I'll help you I want to help going if if you'll give me Just long enough to drive back to the village to make a phone call Oh, don't let work interfere with an important thing like a phone call I don't blame you for saying that doctor But when you see all I want to do is to call Blair Hospital and tell them to resume and his serum treatment on my son if If anything happens to him It'll be my fault. I'm sorry. I'd forgotten about your son. Perhaps you've had better go back to stay with him No, no, no, I'll just get to a phone and call my place is out here with you and When we get back to the hospital, I'd be grateful if you'll take my son back as your patient In just a moment. We'll return to the story of dr. Kildare Nothing new under might have been a lot worse if you hadn't gotten that hunch about going up to Jed's place Well, you gave me the reason for going there I thought young breveton looked pretty good when we saw him a little more rest and he'll be fine He wouldn't have been if you'd hesitated and let that hand go for another Will you stop pussy-footing around and say what's on your mind? Well, how can I talk when you're entering who they should bill? Oh, he might have an accident You have just heard the story of dr. Kildare starring Lou Ayers and Lionel Barrymore This program was written by Joel Murcott and directed by Joe Bigelow Original music was composed and conducted by Walter Schumann Supporting cast included Virginia Greg Ted Osborne will write Tom Holland and Ted Von Elts Bob Anderson speaking