May 23, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The Shenley Laboratories, producer of Penicil and Shenley and Shenley
Pharmaceuticals presents yon Core theaterre yon Core Theater Play to Night,
yellow Jack. Our star is Ronald Coleman.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
To Night, Shenley.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Laboratories presents another and a new series of great dramatic programs.
Some of our stories are fact the struggles and accomplishments
of great men of medicine. Others are fiction stories of
devotion to an ideal individual, heroism, or great courage. By
these programs, Shenley Laboratories would remind you that medical science
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and progress is not cold in personal research or pages
of statistics, but of human story told in living turns,
whether it's the life of one of medicine's immortals or
the simple everyday record of service rendered by your family physician.
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Now Ronald Coleman brings you the story of Yellowjack, Cuba.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Late July nineteen hundred. The land was rich and mellow.
It shimmered radiantly in the hot sunlight. The land was
a verdant eden, gaudy with color, with everything ripe to
the tongue and the touch. The land was a thing
of gentle hills, kneeling around quiet valleys and dense jungles.
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It was cliffs and bluffs that bent down to see
who was coming. In the harbors, the land was beeches
and banks, and the blue water curled its white toes
on the beeches, coveting the land water the transparent aqua
home of the eel, the shark, the manatee. Cuba Late
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July Paradise and Paradox, where the monkey was king of
the jungle, and the tortoise subjects where beauty walked in
Seltry's splendor, dripping venomed honey Cuba, where man was an
inconsequential thing measured against the mosquito. Those American doctors and
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scientists didn't know they were pitting themselves against the mosquito
at first, although they had a name for their enemy,
and the name was yellow Jack.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
And the.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Heroes are men from humble towns with humble names like O'Hara, McLellan,
Brinkahaff Finley. There's usually nothing to distinguish them, nothing but
that inner fire that manifests itself in the quickness of
their hands and the brightness of their eyes. Their names
are names like Lazir and Carol and Agramanty and Reid,
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and their names are.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Legion Major Reid. There is a message here from General
Woods Headquarters. What is it, Agramaty, the Army death list
brought up to date?
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Sir, thank you Agrammaty. I can't stand much more of this.
I look out there over the sea and I watch
our transports steaming home, and I don't even dare think
what they may be carrying home. We've taken Cuba with
his awful things smoldering in it, waiting for fresh American fuel,
waiting for its chance to jump over home to Philadelphia,
New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
It is not an agreeable condition from my point of
view either.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Doctor.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I am Cuban born.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
I didn't mean to offend you, agrammat But you and
Carol and Lazi and I we were sent down to
stop this horror, to isolate a microbe and find a cue,
and we failed, failed miserably. It isn't easy to admit then.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
No, I know, doctor, but it is not from lack
of trying.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
If we could only think of some fresh angle.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Oh, by the way, I ran into one puzzler at Pina.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
I've had enough puzzlers I can't solve. Ah.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yes, enough puzzlers. But this is a funny case. This
one is worth listening to. The case of a soldier
sick twelve July, dead eighteen July.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Nothing so unusual about that.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Oh, but there is that soldier had not been exposed,
He had not been near the disease for over a
month before he took sick.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
What was that? There? It is there's the first clue.
A soldier sick July the twelfth, dead on the eighteenth,
A soldier who had been in the guard house a
month before he took sick, and who lay in that
guard house for three days with eight other prisoners, and
not one of them caught it, even the one who
slept in his blankets after he died. There's something to
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think about. There's a thought worth some contemplation. How about
contaminated food or water? Agrimonty the whole out fit ate
and drank the same. The other eight may have been
a mule.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Records do not show it. One came from Iowa, one
from Maine, to from Wisconsin.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
M He may have been extra susceptible.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Maybe maybe not, maybe.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Not think hard, measure read think hard. What was it
crawled or jumped or flew through that godhouse? Window, bit
that one prisoner and went back where it came from.
How does yellow fever spread?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Major Reed?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
How does it go from man to man, and village
to village and even across the sea? Saint? Remember Smith's
Texas fever tick? Remember Bruce and that SETSI fly in Africa.
Remember that Russ and Grassy have just nailed malaria to
a mosquito. Mosquitoes, think hard, Major Read History is holding
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her breath while you ponder the mosquito a GRAMMATI.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Wasn't there a doctor Finley who had a theory about
the mosquito and yellowjack?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yes, but it was never credited, and he's never able
to prove his theories.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Is he still here?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Call doctor Carroll and doctor Lazier, and let us call
on doctor Finley.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
How simple a stage is sometimes set for great moments
A Cuban afternoon, hot and breathless and sleeping. No drama here,
no sound of drums or trumpets, no auditory, Only four
young doctors walking along a dusty street, but walking the
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threshold of discovery.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Have the honor of Major Reid to present my colleague,
doctor Finley, for these years a distinguished leader of our profession.
Here in Havana, Doctor Finley, this is doctor Lazier. How
do you do s Doctor Carricter, how.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Do you do Doctor Finley? We've come to ask of
you your knowledge of your yellow fever mosquito.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
And a specimen of the mosquito herself, as many specimens
as you can spare.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You are stern me, gentlemen. For nineteen years science has
laughed at me, at the cracked Al Finley and his mosquitoes.
I have no impulse to share my secret.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
And no one's laughing now, doctor Finley. We want to
work with you.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You believe in my discovery, Doctor.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Reid, Yes, I do believe in it, don't you see?
Doctor Finley, We're what you've been waiting for. We're going
to save your discovery and pull the whole fraternity of
science in the line. All we need is one demonstration
and we can prove the whole theory.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Proof. Aye, there's the run. Some truths have to bide
their time and wait for the world to catch up
with them. This needs courage and ruthlessness. You can't test
Finley's mosquitos without risking life.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You cannot ask me to believe that you will be
allowed to experiment on your soul.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
No, we'll let the soldiers wait. We start this off
with ourselves.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
You, gentlemen, the four of us, only three Agrimati's had yellowjacket.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
No, your member of science, your lives are valuable.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Is any man's life worth more than the cause? He
risks it on?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Made you read, all of you, your brave men. Hommy,
I serve.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
You give us the mosquito eggs dot.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
When I give them into your hands, I give you
nineteen years of my life. But I do it gladly.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
There it is. They're in a bowl before you.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You've wanted to raise the water in that dish, and
those eggs will hatch the criminal. Beware of her. She
isn't a wild marsh mosquito. She's your domestic pep. She
shares your home with you, takes her siesta under your eaves,
raises her family in your patio fountain, and rewards your
hospitality with death.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Gentlemen, you hold the key to yellow fever in your hands.
I pray for your sake and all humanity, that you
may turn the luck I fail to turn.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Discussion, speculation, experimentation, the tireless, never ending pattern of men
of science probing the mysteries, searching for ultimate benefits for humanity,
hoping through medicine to discover cures for all ills since
the dawn of time. But even though centuries old, the
practice of medicine as only within a comparatively recent length
of time made its greatest stride in prolonging the life
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of man. It may well be that this fact is
due to day's emphasis upon research, research which has yielded
such life saving drugs as penicillin and the newer streptomycin.
Among the firms whose research helped increase production of penicillin
and allied products is Chanley Laboratories. In recent months, Shanley
Laboratories is placed at the disposal of your physician such
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specialized products as penicillin tablets and troquets for administration of
penicillin by mouth, penicillin ointment for local application, and ophthalmic
ointment for treating certain infecttions of the eye. Even now,
as you hear this program, the research scientists of Shenley
Laboratories are working toward the end that your physician may
have an never increasing number of healing, life giving drugs
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of his command. In striving to further broaden the scope
of our production of pharmaceuticals. Shenley Laboratories is guided by
the desire to help place in every doctor's hands the
greatest amount of aid and fighting disease that medical Church
can develop. Now, Ronald Coleman continues the story of yellowjack.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Mosquitoes under the searching white light of science, mosquitoes under microscopes, discussion, speculation, experimentation.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
Look, boys, my orders are to bring mosquitos in here
to the hospital, war to suck a few yellow fever
germs out of your blood. Now you got plenty to spare,
so there's nothing for you to get excited about. One
little mosquito bite won't make you feel any worse than
you do already.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
One mosquitobite in the interests of science. Let the mosquito
dip his quill in the poison and proceed on his
deadly way.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
All right, LA's here, roll up your sleeve, has little
baby in this jar straight from the yellowjack ward, Go ahead,
let's get it.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Over with there it is. That's simply death is carried
from insect tramn or is it any temperature las here?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Nope, heady, no, don discouraging, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah? How long since the last time I.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Was bitten six days.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
How discouraging when facts can't keep up with hunches. Three
mosquito bites for doctor Lesier and no results. The key
and the lock are in their hands, but the luck
is hard to turn. Nature discloses her secrets reluctantly. Something
has been overlood. Here.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
I can tell you one thing we've forgotten.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Oh, what's that?
Speaker 7 (12:02):
It's the same thing Ross was stuck on with malaria.
You can fill those mosquitos full of malaria blood and
they can't hurt a baby for two weeks. Afterwards, they've
got to have a good two weeks to ripen. We
haven't given oursqueters any time. Hmmm, he grimodi, How long.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Is your oldest mosquito headed the jester meal of yellow
fever blood?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Twelve days?
Speaker 6 (12:20):
All right, We'll wait two more and trimolas there. That
doesn't take wistod on, doctor Carroll.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Waiting is hard, with the tropic sun beating down and
men dying in the yellow fever wards. Waiting is a
twisting impatience that writhes in their stomachs. While the mosquito
drones in the test tube and doctor Lazier remains well,
doubts begin to fester and spread. Perhaps the mosquito is
not the villain. Perhaps once more they are on the
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wrong track. Their manes are small rooms, and they past them,
our after our, day after day, while the jungle leaves
whisper and chuckle in the afternoon breezes, while the monkey chatters,
the manate doses, and the vines of Cuba twine about
the dead. All right, let's get this over with. What's
this mosquito war? By yourself? Agrimony?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
That is the one we've fed on that boy. Two
weeks ago we had just been brought into the war.
That case hadn't even begun to develop. Carol, that's tried.
I took mine from fatal cases. Why can't you a
Mosquito's a mosquito on it? You don't mind, I'll pick
my own. Come on, black beauty, kiss me.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Another period of waiting and watching, while anxiety and worry
pinches at their nerves and the bitter tang of failure
tastes on their lips. They had been willing to rest
death for the victory of a yellow jack, but now
they feel that instead of death, they are fencing with ridicule.
Carol in particular, is beginning to crack under the strain,
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and even read is showing the danger signals of mental
anguish and strain.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
I have no patience with you, Carol. This morning you
performed an autopsy on a man just dead of yellow fever,
and you're testing one so los of infection you deliberately
expose yourself to another if you were to have become infected.
How would you know what source of infection to hold responsible?
How can you expect me to check my real work
to test an idea that's already exploded.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
You aren't even giving it a chance. You haven't taken
your temperature at all these last four days.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Why should I This darn thing has me crazy as
it is, it's even got me all off my feet.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
I woke up this morning feeling how Carol? I don't
like the dackens. My head's felt like a dog's breakfast
all morning.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Headache, dizziness. Are you assure it's the effect of nerves? Carol?
Remember a lady you called black beauty, a lady you
dared to laugh at.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Report to the hospital immediately, Carol.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Why there's nothing wrong with me? All I need is
a little quinine and a headache.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Beggy Mobile is there, Yes, of course, come on town,
a lot of dang nuns. I am frightened, AGRIMONDI for
the first time, I'm frightened.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
What of that Carol's got yellowjack or that he hasn't both.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Well, Doctor Philly.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I examined Carol very thoroughly. Whatever doubts she may have
had yesterday, there can be no question now. First I
was sorry for him, then I remember to thank.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
God, I'm sorry. But Carol's case is not conclusive. Evidence no, unfortunately,
not conclusive. Why did one mosquito succeed with Carol when
fifty failed with Lazier? How can anyone be sure that
it was the mosquito that infected him? An insect infected
from a case only in the second day of disease,
Doctor Reid.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Suppose this microbe is only in the blood the first
few days before you really know what's wrong with you.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
You mean it might change die after the first few days.
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
But if there is anything in the idea we've been
wasting our time feeding our skeeters on advanced cases, there
wouldn't have been any microbes left.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
In them, and that would explain why I could I
wonder if that could be it.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Ah, it's too easy.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Things can be that simple.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Oh, yes, things can be that simple. The truth is
always simple when you're finally able to discern what is
the truth.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
If this is the trick, I never ran any risk
at all, and I may be as susceptible as any man.
I could be the case to confirm Carol.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Now you'd have to be isolated for two weeks.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
First.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
In two weeks, doctor Carroll will be well or dead.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
We can't leave him lying there when he's done this.
We can't let him die without knowing what he's done.
Dear God, give us a chance with this, Dear God,
just a chance.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Send them one pure, unsuspecting human guinea pig, one guinea pig,
to prove that yellowjack comes from the mosquito. One guinea pig,
one guinea pig, one guinea pig, One guinea pigs.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Here?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
What is it? What's wrong? It's no use. I can't
go on. I'm sick, great or I don't wonder.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
You've been at Carol's bedside night and day.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Carol got yellow jack from our mosquitoes. I haven't been
bitten myself for weeks, but I've got it too, I've
got it too. You can take all those notes and
the poets and all those mosquitos and Burnham. There's nothing
in them, because I've gone and got yellow Jack. Without
our mosquito.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Men can't go against death and not risk death themselves.
Pasteur sent Tuilier to Alexandria for the Colera. Tuilier didn't
come back. Lazia won't last. Humanity asks great sacrifices of
its scientists. Write down the name Jesse Lazier, engrave it
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on stone, honor it. He was a strong man, but
not so strong as a mosquito.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Do you want to give up, doctor Reed?
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Do you want to go back?
Speaker 6 (18:21):
About you, Carol, you're the one who's been ill.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
No, I want to go on for myself and for Lazier.
Go back.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
No.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
The stuff of courage doesn't grow weaker. It grows stronger
and brighter, until it blinds with its light, and the
flaming sword cuts through the veil of knowledge.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Understand our sergeant eimal Wood doesn't want any pressure rock,
just let it leak out. I don't know why any
healthy kids should volunteer, but three hundreds a lot of
money to a soldier.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
The whispers dart across the night like frightened birds. Three
hundred dollars compensation for volunteers. They've got a nerve volunteers
to catch yellow jack and die of it. Not for me,
not for five times, three hundred dollars, to advance science
and benefit humanity in soldiers, humanity, no pressure, just let
it leak out. They will be volunteers. There must be volunteers.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Did you want something private? O, Hero have come to volunteer, sir,
the both of us, sir, for the experiment.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
You know the risk, yes, sir, we know all right.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
You've heard what the compensation is, Yes, sir, we've heard
for volunteering in the interests of science.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
And for the benefit of humanity.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
And the only condition on which we volunteer is that
we receive no compensation. Sir, gentlemen, I thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Did you hear that there are no one can stop
them now? They've got everything they need backing money, isolation camps,
and a couple of guys worth remembering.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
The conditions are absolutely ideal. Carol Brinkerhof, No Hero be
confined in this tent. There be no mosquitos here that
we don't bring with us in test tubes. This is
going to be the dog gondest experiment there's ever been.
Two weeks for Ohara and Brinker have to sit in
that tent. Two weeks with one of themselves the company,
and an occasional visit from the doctors. Two weeks of
sleep and food and stereo bars before their strange wedding.
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Are you ready to break her off? No hero, Yes, sir, sir,
you give me the mosquitos agrimony there, but no mistakes
this time, no chance of error. Reed's going to show
them this time that you can't catch yellow jack in
any way but from the mosquito. He's out to prove
that Laziir too died because of the mosquito. And so
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he gets two more volunteers and another tenth that he
calls the dirty House is a tent ready, It's ready,
all right, And that dirty house is a good name
for it. It's packed full of every spinking by product
of this disease.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Two soldiers will sleep in there for three weeks, sleep
in the unaired, undisinfected, and unwashed bedding that men have
died in. Everything that scientists have ever thought transmitted the
disease is in there except the mosquito.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I'm hollow, hearah hot.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
It's a cold night with a wintry dampness in it,
the way you could see your breath of your trouble
to blow it. Hey, you guys, open the dirty house.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
How do you feel great? Are you with a little
fresh air?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Hope you guys get yellow jack.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
All you do?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Do you is you do?
Speaker 7 (21:51):
Because if you don't, we will, and we don't want
to deprivee you with a pleasure.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
These darmasquito bites, itch or quit beefing brinker?
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Heart?
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Now what are you doing with that tent flap closing it?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I'm cold?
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Two minutes ago the fever was burning you up.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I got a chill.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
Now my ears is roaring, my teeth is shattering, my head.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I feel lousy. And John, what's that line you're always saying?
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Cowards dye, cowards dying many times before their death.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
The valiant never taste of death. But once, of all
the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems most
strange to me that men should fear seeing the death.
The necessary end will come when it will come.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Will come when it will come.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
Ah, I was afraid, John, Could I ask you to
sit down to.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
The ambulance and it's amna come for me.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Reg your hot. You haven't gone and gotten yellowjack without me?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Have you?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Why?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
You can?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I ask you why?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Of course?
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Ambulance, ambulance, ambulance.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Will they never finish their examination?
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Karl, you're taking us harder than readers.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
I feel for Red. This is Reed's movement. Everything hangs
on where the Brinkerhoff has yellow jack and whether Major
Gugus is convinced that he got it from our mosquito.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
The doctors bend over the hospital bed, take note of
the symptoms, observe them well, gentlemen. The eyes jaundiced, the guns, bleeding, headache, nausea.
The boy hasn't omitted a single symptom.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Beautiful, beautiful, Major Reed, Yes, Major Gourgus, How long did
you say between the bite and the first symptom? Three days,
nine and a half hours, three days, nine and a
half hours for Read, months before that for Carol and Lazier,
and nineteen years for doctor Finlay. The truth has been
conceived and delivered into life, a new baby for science
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and medicine to rear.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Major Read, this is an impressive moment.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
I'm going out after this mosquito.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Let me shake your hand, sir.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
If that boy's convinced you, Gorgus, that he did get
the infection from the mosquito, and if those other two
healthy as ever in the filth of that dirty house,
have shown you the disease cannot, in nature be contracted
except from the mosquito, then you may. But if you
have any shadow of reservation on either point.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
At a new case of people coming in, sir, doctor
Eiams just went down to look at him new case.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
The silence falls like a chill across the hut. The
outstretched hand drops a new found world tutters on its
slender foundations.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
The case it's not from our isolation came.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
They didn't say hu, though two of the men went
down to carry the stretcher from the ambulance.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
The moments are leaden eternities. The tongue clings like dry
cotton to the roof of the mouth. The throat is dry,
the hands clammy. The victory that seems so close is
trembling into tears.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
They could not have caught it in the dirty house.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
There hasn't been a mosquito near that pa that had
wrecked things worse than Lazier's death.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
The footsteps approached slowly, the halt races to meet them.
That defeet are rooted to the floor. They're afraid to
look at the stretcher.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Good afternoon to your doctor.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Oh hera, this man doesn't have yellow fever, duct aims.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I just examined him.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
It doesn't make sense. He should have come down four
days ago. Well, now, I'll tell you. I couldn't bear
to let Brinkerhoff get ahead of me. He should have
kept as mosquito as he who has locked up.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Oh hera, oh hera. Now science sent humanity become one
in the person of Johnny O'Hara, and no shadow of
gain for him but his own satisfaction, and only the
vanity and glory of that. So the job's done, and
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the doubts and discouragements are memories now, and the mosquito's
poison talon will be dealt with.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
And this well, Carol, the last microscope's packed, and we
close the door of the Cuban laboratory. A dirty house
has made a fine bonfire, and grass can grow once
more where Brinckerhoff. No hera pits the tenth None of
the boys are much the worse for wear, and.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
We are going home.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
I wish we were taking Lazir home with us. I
wish you were coming Agrimonte. No, doctor, I am Cuban born.
I must stay in Cuba. The rig you ordered to
take you down to the transports ready whenever you are, sir, good,
I'm tired.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
A man does what he has to do and is tired,
and the rest that follows is a good rest, for
he has earned it.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
Help take a last look at Cuba, Carrol. Yes, a
last look, because the island slips slowly from the ship.
A last look at the jungled kingdom of the monkey
and the tortoise and the manateee.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
A last salute to Lazier and the others who died
too soon. And a parting gesture to that enemy more
dangerous and more deadly than anything sent out of those
jungles to defy man. The last look, rich and full
with the solemn knowledge, are victory and triumph over death.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
In a moment, we'll bring back our star, Ronald Coleman.
But first, ladies and gentlemen, they we leave you with
this thought. Chnry Laboratories, maker of penicillin Chanley presents this
program with the reminder that your doctor, in his work
of keeping you well, has at his fingertips the whole
world of science. The firms whose research scientists continually seek
new aids to health are guided by the desire constantly
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to increase the number of valuable drugs with which your
doctor fights disease. Shenry Laboratories is numbered among those firms
whose resources of knowledge and skill are at your doctor command. Now,
ladies and gentlemen, mister Coleman, to.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Sum up the spirit of this Chenley Laboratories program. This
simple and beautiful prayer of the physician, written centuries ago
by my monodes, seems to me to be apt and fitting.
The eternal Providence has appointed me to watch over the
life and death of all thy creatures. May I always
see in the patient a fellow creature in pain. Grant
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me strength an opportunity always to extend domain of my craft.
This is the prayer of the physician. It is ages old,
yet today it is as new as the hope for
a peaceful way of life for all the world. Maybe
invite you to listen again next week at the same
time when Chenleigh Laboratories presents green Light starring Robert Young,
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a great star in a great story.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
Good Night, Yellow Jack was produced and directed by Bill Lawrence.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
It was a Geene Holloway adaptation of the play by
Sidney Howard. This is Frank Graham speaking for Shenley Laboratories,
producer of penicillin Shenley and Shenley Pharmaceuticals. This is CBS,
the Columbia Broadcasting System.
The Shenley Laboratories, producer of Penicil and Shenley and Shenley
Pharmaceuticals presents yon Core theaterre yon Core Theater Play to Night,
yellow Jack. Our star is Ronald Coleman.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
To Night, Shenley.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Laboratories presents another and a new series of great dramatic programs.
Some of our stories are fact the struggles and accomplishments
of great men of medicine. Others are fiction stories of
devotion to an ideal individual, heroism, or great courage. By
these programs, Shenley Laboratories would remind you that medical science
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and progress is not cold in personal research or pages
of statistics, but of human story told in living turns,
whether it's the life of one of medicine's immortals or
the simple everyday record of service rendered by your family physician.
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Now Ronald Coleman brings you the story of Yellowjack, Cuba.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Late July nineteen hundred. The land was rich and mellow.
It shimmered radiantly in the hot sunlight. The land was
a verdant eden, gaudy with color, with everything ripe to
the tongue and the touch. The land was a thing
of gentle hills, kneeling around quiet valleys and dense jungles.
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It was cliffs and bluffs that bent down to see
who was coming. In the harbors, the land was beeches
and banks, and the blue water curled its white toes
on the beeches, coveting the land water the transparent aqua
home of the eel, the shark, the manatee. Cuba Late
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July Paradise and Paradox, where the monkey was king of
the jungle, and the tortoise subjects where beauty walked in
Seltry's splendor, dripping venomed honey Cuba, where man was an
inconsequential thing measured against the mosquito. Those American doctors and
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scientists didn't know they were pitting themselves against the mosquito
at first, although they had a name for their enemy,
and the name was yellow Jack.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
And the.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Heroes are men from humble towns with humble names like O'Hara, McLellan,
Brinkahaff Finley. There's usually nothing to distinguish them, nothing but
that inner fire that manifests itself in the quickness of
their hands and the brightness of their eyes. Their names
are names like Lazir and Carol and Agramanty and Reid,
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and their names are.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Legion Major Reid. There is a message here from General
Woods Headquarters. What is it, Agramaty, the Army death list
brought up to date?
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Sir, thank you Agrammaty. I can't stand much more of this.
I look out there over the sea and I watch
our transports steaming home, and I don't even dare think
what they may be carrying home. We've taken Cuba with
his awful things smoldering in it, waiting for fresh American fuel,
waiting for its chance to jump over home to Philadelphia,
New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
It is not an agreeable condition from my point of
view either.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Doctor.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I am Cuban born.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
I didn't mean to offend you, agrammat But you and
Carol and Lazi and I we were sent down to
stop this horror, to isolate a microbe and find a cue,
and we failed, failed miserably. It isn't easy to admit then.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
No, I know, doctor, but it is not from lack
of trying.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
If we could only think of some fresh angle.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Oh, by the way, I ran into one puzzler at Pina.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
I've had enough puzzlers I can't solve. Ah.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yes, enough puzzlers. But this is a funny case. This
one is worth listening to. The case of a soldier
sick twelve July, dead eighteen July.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Nothing so unusual about that.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Oh, but there is that soldier had not been exposed,
He had not been near the disease for over a
month before he took sick.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
What was that? There? It is there's the first clue.
A soldier sick July the twelfth, dead on the eighteenth,
A soldier who had been in the guard house a
month before he took sick, and who lay in that
guard house for three days with eight other prisoners, and
not one of them caught it, even the one who
slept in his blankets after he died. There's something to
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think about. There's a thought worth some contemplation. How about
contaminated food or water? Agrimonty the whole out fit ate
and drank the same. The other eight may have been
a mule.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Records do not show it. One came from Iowa, one
from Maine, to from Wisconsin.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
M He may have been extra susceptible.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Maybe maybe not, maybe.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Not think hard, measure read think hard. What was it
crawled or jumped or flew through that godhouse? Window, bit
that one prisoner and went back where it came from.
How does yellow fever spread?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Major Reed?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
How does it go from man to man, and village
to village and even across the sea? Saint? Remember Smith's
Texas fever tick? Remember Bruce and that SETSI fly in Africa.
Remember that Russ and Grassy have just nailed malaria to
a mosquito. Mosquitoes, think hard, Major Read History is holding
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her breath while you ponder the mosquito a GRAMMATI.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Wasn't there a doctor Finley who had a theory about
the mosquito and yellowjack?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yes, but it was never credited, and he's never able
to prove his theories.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Is he still here?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Call doctor Carroll and doctor Lazier, and let us call
on doctor Finley.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
How simple a stage is sometimes set for great moments
A Cuban afternoon, hot and breathless and sleeping. No drama here,
no sound of drums or trumpets, no auditory, Only four
young doctors walking along a dusty street, but walking the
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threshold of discovery.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Have the honor of Major Reid to present my colleague,
doctor Finley, for these years a distinguished leader of our profession.
Here in Havana, Doctor Finley, this is doctor Lazier. How
do you do s Doctor Carricter, how.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Do you do Doctor Finley? We've come to ask of
you your knowledge of your yellow fever mosquito.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
And a specimen of the mosquito herself, as many specimens
as you can spare.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You are stern me, gentlemen. For nineteen years science has
laughed at me, at the cracked Al Finley and his mosquitoes.
I have no impulse to share my secret.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
And no one's laughing now, doctor Finley. We want to
work with you.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You believe in my discovery, Doctor.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Reid, Yes, I do believe in it, don't you see?
Doctor Finley, We're what you've been waiting for. We're going
to save your discovery and pull the whole fraternity of
science in the line. All we need is one demonstration
and we can prove the whole theory.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Proof. Aye, there's the run. Some truths have to bide
their time and wait for the world to catch up
with them. This needs courage and ruthlessness. You can't test
Finley's mosquitos without risking life.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You cannot ask me to believe that you will be
allowed to experiment on your soul.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
No, we'll let the soldiers wait. We start this off
with ourselves.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
You, gentlemen, the four of us, only three Agrimati's had yellowjacket.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
No, your member of science, your lives are valuable.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Is any man's life worth more than the cause? He
risks it on?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Made you read, all of you, your brave men. Hommy,
I serve.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
You give us the mosquito eggs dot.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
When I give them into your hands, I give you
nineteen years of my life. But I do it gladly.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
There it is. They're in a bowl before you.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You've wanted to raise the water in that dish, and
those eggs will hatch the criminal. Beware of her. She
isn't a wild marsh mosquito. She's your domestic pep. She
shares your home with you, takes her siesta under your eaves,
raises her family in your patio fountain, and rewards your
hospitality with death.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Gentlemen, you hold the key to yellow fever in your hands.
I pray for your sake and all humanity, that you
may turn the luck I fail to turn.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Discussion, speculation, experimentation, the tireless, never ending pattern of men
of science probing the mysteries, searching for ultimate benefits for humanity,
hoping through medicine to discover cures for all ills since
the dawn of time. But even though centuries old, the
practice of medicine as only within a comparatively recent length
of time made its greatest stride in prolonging the life
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of man. It may well be that this fact is
due to day's emphasis upon research, research which has yielded
such life saving drugs as penicillin and the newer streptomycin.
Among the firms whose research helped increase production of penicillin
and allied products is Chanley Laboratories. In recent months, Shanley
Laboratories is placed at the disposal of your physician such
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specialized products as penicillin tablets and troquets for administration of
penicillin by mouth, penicillin ointment for local application, and ophthalmic
ointment for treating certain infecttions of the eye. Even now,
as you hear this program, the research scientists of Shenley
Laboratories are working toward the end that your physician may
have an never increasing number of healing, life giving drugs
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of his command. In striving to further broaden the scope
of our production of pharmaceuticals. Shenley Laboratories is guided by
the desire to help place in every doctor's hands the
greatest amount of aid and fighting disease that medical Church
can develop. Now, Ronald Coleman continues the story of yellowjack.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Mosquitoes under the searching white light of science, mosquitoes under microscopes, discussion, speculation, experimentation.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
Look, boys, my orders are to bring mosquitos in here
to the hospital, war to suck a few yellow fever
germs out of your blood. Now you got plenty to spare,
so there's nothing for you to get excited about. One
little mosquito bite won't make you feel any worse than
you do already.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
One mosquitobite in the interests of science. Let the mosquito
dip his quill in the poison and proceed on his
deadly way.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
All right, LA's here, roll up your sleeve, has little
baby in this jar straight from the yellowjack ward, Go ahead,
let's get it.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Over with there it is. That's simply death is carried
from insect tramn or is it any temperature las here?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Nope, heady, no, don discouraging, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah? How long since the last time I.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Was bitten six days.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
How discouraging when facts can't keep up with hunches. Three
mosquito bites for doctor Lesier and no results. The key
and the lock are in their hands, but the luck
is hard to turn. Nature discloses her secrets reluctantly. Something
has been overlood. Here.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
I can tell you one thing we've forgotten.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Oh, what's that?
Speaker 7 (12:02):
It's the same thing Ross was stuck on with malaria.
You can fill those mosquitos full of malaria blood and
they can't hurt a baby for two weeks. Afterwards, they've
got to have a good two weeks to ripen. We
haven't given oursqueters any time. Hmmm, he grimodi, How long.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Is your oldest mosquito headed the jester meal of yellow
fever blood?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Twelve days?
Speaker 6 (12:20):
All right, We'll wait two more and trimolas there. That
doesn't take wistod on, doctor Carroll.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Waiting is hard, with the tropic sun beating down and
men dying in the yellow fever wards. Waiting is a
twisting impatience that writhes in their stomachs. While the mosquito
drones in the test tube and doctor Lazier remains well,
doubts begin to fester and spread. Perhaps the mosquito is
not the villain. Perhaps once more they are on the
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wrong track. Their manes are small rooms, and they past them,
our after our, day after day, while the jungle leaves
whisper and chuckle in the afternoon breezes, while the monkey chatters,
the manate doses, and the vines of Cuba twine about
the dead. All right, let's get this over with. What's
this mosquito war? By yourself? Agrimony?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
That is the one we've fed on that boy. Two
weeks ago we had just been brought into the war.
That case hadn't even begun to develop. Carol, that's tried.
I took mine from fatal cases. Why can't you a
Mosquito's a mosquito on it? You don't mind, I'll pick
my own. Come on, black beauty, kiss me.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Another period of waiting and watching, while anxiety and worry
pinches at their nerves and the bitter tang of failure
tastes on their lips. They had been willing to rest
death for the victory of a yellow jack, but now
they feel that instead of death, they are fencing with ridicule.
Carol in particular, is beginning to crack under the strain,
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and even read is showing the danger signals of mental
anguish and strain.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
I have no patience with you, Carol. This morning you
performed an autopsy on a man just dead of yellow fever,
and you're testing one so los of infection you deliberately
expose yourself to another if you were to have become infected.
How would you know what source of infection to hold responsible?
How can you expect me to check my real work
to test an idea that's already exploded.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
You aren't even giving it a chance. You haven't taken
your temperature at all these last four days.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Why should I This darn thing has me crazy as
it is, it's even got me all off my feet.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
I woke up this morning feeling how Carol? I don't
like the dackens. My head's felt like a dog's breakfast
all morning.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Headache, dizziness. Are you assure it's the effect of nerves? Carol?
Remember a lady you called black beauty, a lady you
dared to laugh at.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Report to the hospital immediately, Carol.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Why there's nothing wrong with me? All I need is
a little quinine and a headache.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Beggy Mobile is there, Yes, of course, come on town,
a lot of dang nuns. I am frightened, AGRIMONDI for
the first time, I'm frightened.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
What of that Carol's got yellowjack or that he hasn't both.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Well, Doctor Philly.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I examined Carol very thoroughly. Whatever doubts she may have
had yesterday, there can be no question now. First I
was sorry for him, then I remember to thank.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
God, I'm sorry. But Carol's case is not conclusive. Evidence no, unfortunately,
not conclusive. Why did one mosquito succeed with Carol when
fifty failed with Lazier? How can anyone be sure that
it was the mosquito that infected him? An insect infected
from a case only in the second day of disease,
Doctor Reid.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Suppose this microbe is only in the blood the first
few days before you really know what's wrong with you.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
You mean it might change die after the first few days.
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
But if there is anything in the idea we've been
wasting our time feeding our skeeters on advanced cases, there
wouldn't have been any microbes left.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
In them, and that would explain why I could I
wonder if that could be it.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Ah, it's too easy.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Things can be that simple.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Oh, yes, things can be that simple. The truth is
always simple when you're finally able to discern what is
the truth.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
If this is the trick, I never ran any risk
at all, and I may be as susceptible as any man.
I could be the case to confirm Carol.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Now you'd have to be isolated for two weeks.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
First.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
In two weeks, doctor Carroll will be well or dead.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
We can't leave him lying there when he's done this.
We can't let him die without knowing what he's done.
Dear God, give us a chance with this, Dear God,
just a chance.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Send them one pure, unsuspecting human guinea pig, one guinea pig,
to prove that yellowjack comes from the mosquito. One guinea pig,
one guinea pig, one guinea pig, One guinea pigs.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Here?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
What is it? What's wrong? It's no use. I can't
go on. I'm sick, great or I don't wonder.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
You've been at Carol's bedside night and day.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Carol got yellow jack from our mosquitoes. I haven't been
bitten myself for weeks, but I've got it too, I've
got it too. You can take all those notes and
the poets and all those mosquitos and Burnham. There's nothing
in them, because I've gone and got yellow Jack. Without
our mosquito.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Men can't go against death and not risk death themselves.
Pasteur sent Tuilier to Alexandria for the Colera. Tuilier didn't
come back. Lazia won't last. Humanity asks great sacrifices of
its scientists. Write down the name Jesse Lazier, engrave it
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on stone, honor it. He was a strong man, but
not so strong as a mosquito.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Do you want to give up, doctor Reed?
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Do you want to go back?
Speaker 6 (18:21):
About you, Carol, you're the one who's been ill.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
No, I want to go on for myself and for Lazier.
Go back.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
No.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
The stuff of courage doesn't grow weaker. It grows stronger
and brighter, until it blinds with its light, and the
flaming sword cuts through the veil of knowledge.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Understand our sergeant eimal Wood doesn't want any pressure rock,
just let it leak out. I don't know why any
healthy kids should volunteer, but three hundreds a lot of
money to a soldier.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
The whispers dart across the night like frightened birds. Three
hundred dollars compensation for volunteers. They've got a nerve volunteers
to catch yellow jack and die of it. Not for me,
not for five times, three hundred dollars, to advance science
and benefit humanity in soldiers, humanity, no pressure, just let
it leak out. They will be volunteers. There must be volunteers.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Did you want something private? O, Hero have come to volunteer, sir,
the both of us, sir, for the experiment.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
You know the risk, yes, sir, we know all right.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
You've heard what the compensation is, Yes, sir, we've heard
for volunteering in the interests of science.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
And for the benefit of humanity.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
And the only condition on which we volunteer is that
we receive no compensation. Sir, gentlemen, I thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Did you hear that there are no one can stop
them now? They've got everything they need backing money, isolation camps,
and a couple of guys worth remembering.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
The conditions are absolutely ideal. Carol Brinkerhof, No Hero be
confined in this tent. There be no mosquitos here that
we don't bring with us in test tubes. This is
going to be the dog gondest experiment there's ever been.
Two weeks for Ohara and Brinker have to sit in
that tent. Two weeks with one of themselves the company,
and an occasional visit from the doctors. Two weeks of
sleep and food and stereo bars before their strange wedding.
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Are you ready to break her off? No hero, Yes, sir, sir,
you give me the mosquitos agrimony there, but no mistakes
this time, no chance of error. Reed's going to show
them this time that you can't catch yellow jack in
any way but from the mosquito. He's out to prove
that Laziir too died because of the mosquito. And so
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he gets two more volunteers and another tenth that he
calls the dirty House is a tent ready, It's ready,
all right, And that dirty house is a good name
for it. It's packed full of every spinking by product
of this disease.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Two soldiers will sleep in there for three weeks, sleep
in the unaired, undisinfected, and unwashed bedding that men have
died in. Everything that scientists have ever thought transmitted the
disease is in there except the mosquito.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I'm hollow, hearah hot.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
It's a cold night with a wintry dampness in it,
the way you could see your breath of your trouble
to blow it. Hey, you guys, open the dirty house.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
How do you feel great? Are you with a little
fresh air?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Hope you guys get yellow jack.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
All you do?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Do you is you do?
Speaker 7 (21:51):
Because if you don't, we will, and we don't want
to deprivee you with a pleasure.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
These darmasquito bites, itch or quit beefing brinker?
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Heart?
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Now what are you doing with that tent flap closing it?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I'm cold?
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Two minutes ago the fever was burning you up.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I got a chill.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
Now my ears is roaring, my teeth is shattering, my head.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I feel lousy. And John, what's that line you're always saying?
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Cowards dye, cowards dying many times before their death.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
The valiant never taste of death. But once, of all
the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems most
strange to me that men should fear seeing the death.
The necessary end will come when it will come.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Will come when it will come.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
Ah, I was afraid, John, Could I ask you to
sit down to.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
The ambulance and it's amna come for me.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Reg your hot. You haven't gone and gotten yellowjack without me?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Have you?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Why?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
You can?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I ask you why?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Of course?
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Ambulance, ambulance, ambulance.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Will they never finish their examination?
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Karl, you're taking us harder than readers.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
I feel for Red. This is Reed's movement. Everything hangs
on where the Brinkerhoff has yellow jack and whether Major
Gugus is convinced that he got it from our mosquito.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
The doctors bend over the hospital bed, take note of
the symptoms, observe them well, gentlemen. The eyes jaundiced, the guns, bleeding, headache, nausea.
The boy hasn't omitted a single symptom.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Beautiful, beautiful, Major Reed, Yes, Major Gourgus, How long did
you say between the bite and the first symptom? Three days,
nine and a half hours, three days, nine and a
half hours for Read, months before that for Carol and Lazier,
and nineteen years for doctor Finlay. The truth has been
conceived and delivered into life, a new baby for science
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and medicine to rear.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Major Read, this is an impressive moment.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
I'm going out after this mosquito.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Let me shake your hand, sir.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
If that boy's convinced you, Gorgus, that he did get
the infection from the mosquito, and if those other two
healthy as ever in the filth of that dirty house,
have shown you the disease cannot, in nature be contracted
except from the mosquito, then you may. But if you
have any shadow of reservation on either point.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
At a new case of people coming in, sir, doctor
Eiams just went down to look at him new case.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
The silence falls like a chill across the hut. The
outstretched hand drops a new found world tutters on its
slender foundations.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
The case it's not from our isolation came.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
They didn't say hu, though two of the men went
down to carry the stretcher from the ambulance.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
The moments are leaden eternities. The tongue clings like dry
cotton to the roof of the mouth. The throat is dry,
the hands clammy. The victory that seems so close is
trembling into tears.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
They could not have caught it in the dirty house.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
There hasn't been a mosquito near that pa that had
wrecked things worse than Lazier's death.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
The footsteps approached slowly, the halt races to meet them.
That defeet are rooted to the floor. They're afraid to
look at the stretcher.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Good afternoon to your doctor.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Oh hera, this man doesn't have yellow fever, duct aims.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I just examined him.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
It doesn't make sense. He should have come down four
days ago. Well, now, I'll tell you. I couldn't bear
to let Brinkerhoff get ahead of me. He should have
kept as mosquito as he who has locked up.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Oh hera, oh hera. Now science sent humanity become one
in the person of Johnny O'Hara, and no shadow of
gain for him but his own satisfaction, and only the
vanity and glory of that. So the job's done, and
(25:53):
the doubts and discouragements are memories now, and the mosquito's
poison talon will be dealt with.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
And this well, Carol, the last microscope's packed, and we
close the door of the Cuban laboratory. A dirty house
has made a fine bonfire, and grass can grow once
more where Brinckerhoff. No hera pits the tenth None of
the boys are much the worse for wear, and.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
We are going home.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
I wish we were taking Lazir home with us. I
wish you were coming Agrimonte. No, doctor, I am Cuban born.
I must stay in Cuba. The rig you ordered to
take you down to the transports ready whenever you are, sir, good,
I'm tired.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
A man does what he has to do and is tired,
and the rest that follows is a good rest, for
he has earned it.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
Help take a last look at Cuba, Carrol. Yes, a
last look, because the island slips slowly from the ship.
A last look at the jungled kingdom of the monkey
and the tortoise and the manateee.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
A last salute to Lazier and the others who died
too soon. And a parting gesture to that enemy more
dangerous and more deadly than anything sent out of those
jungles to defy man. The last look, rich and full
with the solemn knowledge, are victory and triumph over death.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
In a moment, we'll bring back our star, Ronald Coleman.
But first, ladies and gentlemen, they we leave you with
this thought. Chnry Laboratories, maker of penicillin Chanley presents this
program with the reminder that your doctor, in his work
of keeping you well, has at his fingertips the whole
world of science. The firms whose research scientists continually seek
new aids to health are guided by the desire constantly
(27:50):
to increase the number of valuable drugs with which your
doctor fights disease. Shenry Laboratories is numbered among those firms
whose resources of knowledge and skill are at your doctor command. Now,
ladies and gentlemen, mister Coleman, to.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Sum up the spirit of this Chenley Laboratories program. This
simple and beautiful prayer of the physician, written centuries ago
by my monodes, seems to me to be apt and fitting.
The eternal Providence has appointed me to watch over the
life and death of all thy creatures. May I always
see in the patient a fellow creature in pain. Grant
(28:26):
me strength an opportunity always to extend domain of my craft.
This is the prayer of the physician. It is ages old,
yet today it is as new as the hope for
a peaceful way of life for all the world. Maybe
invite you to listen again next week at the same
time when Chenleigh Laboratories presents green Light starring Robert Young,
(28:47):
a great star in a great story.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
Good Night, Yellow Jack was produced and directed by Bill Lawrence.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
It was a Geene Holloway adaptation of the play by
Sidney Howard. This is Frank Graham speaking for Shenley Laboratories,
producer of penicillin Shenley and Shenley Pharmaceuticals. This is CBS,
the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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