The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-09
Cured By a Qudck

one plus, and syphilis in the right
side of the head, two plus" The
doctor paused. "Just as l expect
ed. You are a lucky man. HaG
YOU waited another year l coulo
not have promised you relief.
Carmody's heart went wild. a
sinking sensation gripped his
stomach. He shook like leaf In
the wind. He tried to say some
thing but only stutter came
forth. When he became partly ar
ticulate, he stammered. "Why'
doctor, it is impossible, l never
Doctor O'Toole raised his hand:
Compose yourself, Mr.. Carmody.
There is not the slightest reason
for worry. You have come here
in the neck of time. This test does
not reflect in the slightest on your
moral character. The great ma
iority of the people are afflicted
with this disease in a more or less
aggravated form but the medical
doctors are either too ignorant TO
know of its presence or too cow
ardlv to tell their patients. Per
sons who have lived respectable
and conventional lives believe they
are immune from the scourge.
Just like your own case. The test
shows that it is congenital. In
other words you have inherited II
from your ancestors.
"That's about the only legacy
thew left me-" said Johnny.
DR.. O'Toole leaned back in his
chair and showered consolation on
his patient. He oozed confidence.
Carmody began to feel little bet
ter. After the first shock was
absorbed, things did not look so
had. Since everybody had the
confounded disease he was with
the majority. And battling against
disease under the direction of
strong personality like DIR. O'Toole
was rather a luxury.
In order to remove any doubts
that Carmody might entertain
about the infallibility of the blood
test by the Acorn machine the
doctor led him into a small room.
The diagnosing apparatus looked
like a radio cabinet. There was a
slot on the face of it and several
switches. 1t was operated by
means of electricity.
''This little SLOT" explained DR..
O'Toole, "is where we place the
blood specimen we are about to
examine. Each of those switches
has a separate function to per-
form. When we wish to learn if
a patient is afflicted with tuber-
culosis we turn this, for diabetes
/ this, for sinusitis this and for your
chief ailment, this one here. Now,
it may seem strange to you how
this inanimate machine could turin
out such scientific diagnosis. 1t
is quite simple. In this chair we
place a perfectly healthy human
specimen. He must not only be
in perfect health but also COM
pletely relaxed. We connect him
with the machine after placing the
blood specimen in the slot, turn on
the current and we get the vibra-
tory rate of whatever disease OF
diseases the blood specimen may
carry"
"Of course the "medics' are OPP
posed to this method of diagnos-
ing disease and they try every pos
sible means of bringing ridicule on
it and thus discredit it. One med
ical doctor induced a person to
submit an alleged specimen of his
blood to, us for test. But in
stead of his own blood it turned
out to be that of rabbit. This
we did not learn until after the
test showed brain fever and the
crooked medic tried to make a
laughing stock of US. What do you
think of that ?"
Carmody thot it was a dirty
| trick. Yet he could not under
! stand how a specimen of his BLOOD
placed in this dumb machine coulC
cough up the secrets of his physi
cal ailments. But he was asham
ed to admit that he could not UNI
derstand what DIR. O'Toole declar
ed could be grasped by anybody