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Michael, it's Elizabeth! | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
-Hello, Alan. -Hello, Miss Kenny. Glad to see you back. -Thank you. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:46 | |
-Mother! -Darling. -Elizabeth. -Father, darling. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:50 | |
-You're home. -It's wonderful. How are you? -Fine. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:54 | |
-Dr McDonnell. -What do you think of your daughter? -I don't know what kind of a nurse she's going to make. | 0:01:54 | 0:02:01 | |
-I guess I'll have to get sick to find out. -We wanted to see your graduation but we've been so busy... | 0:02:01 | 0:02:08 | |
Did you see her graduate, doctor? | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
-He came in in the middle of my oath. -In time for the important part. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:18 | |
-What was that? -"With loyalty will I aid the physician in his work." -Precisely. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:24 | |
-She'll be no good. -Why? -Nursing is a career for a homely woman and not one of the Kenny girls is homely. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:31 | |
There'll be trouble. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
-I'm a bit concerned. -It's a nurse's duty to keep the patients cheerful. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:39 | |
Not that cheerful. You haven't told us all the news about Mrs McDonnell. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:43 | |
Michael means that we heard Nellie was going to have a baby. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:48 | |
Yes, she lost it. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:51 | |
-Oh, dear. Again. She loves children so. -She's very good with them too. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:56 | |
She wants Elizabeth to stay with us when she comes into the hospital. | 0:02:56 | 0:03:01 | |
-Remember when you stayed when you broke your arm? -I do. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:05 | |
-That's when you decided I wanted to be a nurse. -I discovered a talent. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:10 | |
-And you didn't encourage it? -You did it of your own free will. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:15 | |
-Many people do as YOU want. -You're a born nurse and you know it. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:21 | |
Our hospital's a fine chance for you. It's going to grow. Some day you'll be matron there. When can you start? | 0:03:21 | 0:03:28 | |
I'm not going to your hospital, Dr McDonnell. I'm staying here. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:33 | |
-What are you going to do? -Be a bush nurse. -Bush nurse? | 0:03:33 | 0:03:37 | |
Do you remember what you said when I broke my arm? | 0:03:37 | 0:03:41 | |
"A good bush nurse could have set that arm without breaking it." | 0:03:41 | 0:03:46 | |
I'm going to be that bush nurse. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
That's quite a responsibility. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:52 | |
-I'm the nearest doctor and I'm 50 miles away. -That's the point. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:56 | |
-A couple of years in our hospital would give you more confidence. -Then I'd never be a bush nurse. | 0:03:56 | 0:04:03 | |
-Where did you get this crazy idea? -From you. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:07 | |
Why start something you can't finish? It's a killing life. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:12 | |
-I grew up in the bush. -Not as a nurse, 30 miles from one neighbour to the next, always in the saddle. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:18 | |
-Dirty cabins, boiling bedclothes... -I've thought of all that. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:23 | |
If you wanted to be really useful as a nurse, where would you work? | 0:04:23 | 0:04:27 | |
-Who's asking questions? -Tell me I'm not needed here. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:32 | |
Elizabeth, I'm very worried about you. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:35 | |
Someday that stubborn streak's going to get you into trouble. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:40 | |
How soon do you think? | 0:04:40 | 0:04:42 | |
In six months, you'll be applying at the hospital either as a nurse or as a patient. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:49 | |
INAUDIBLE | 0:05:11 | 0:05:14 | |
PIPE MUSIC STOPS | 0:05:22 | 0:05:25 | |
INAUDIBLE | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
Whisht! | 0:05:40 | 0:05:41 | |
Whisht, everybody. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:43 | |
Elizabeth Kenny, we have gathered here tonight to do you honour. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:48 | |
-< -And it's about time! -Whisht, will yer? | 0:05:48 | 0:05:51 | |
..To do you honour. It's about time. LAUGHTER | 0:05:51 | 0:05:55 | |
You've laboured amongst us without a thought for yourself. | 0:05:55 | 0:05:59 | |
In lonely watches of the night, in foul weather... | 0:05:59 | 0:06:02 | |
Get on with it, Angus. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
If you think you can do any better, come up and do it! | 0:06:05 | 0:06:09 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
-Where was I? He's driven it out of my head. -It's a beautiful speech. -It was when I tried it on Maggie. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:18 | |
There's some of us here who wouldnae be here, if you hadn't patched us up. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:26 | |
Look at me. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:28 | |
Two years ago when I had a broken leg, I thought I'd never walk again. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:32 | |
All the bairns you brought into the world. Aye, a bonny crop of Aussies. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:37 | |
Aye, they are. Don't forget me, Angus. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:41 | |
-She pulled me through pneumonia. -Aye, but she's allowed one mistake. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:46 | |
Nurse Kenny, since you won't get a penny for what you've done, we've all got together and...Archie! | 0:06:48 | 0:06:55 | |
Archie! | 0:06:55 | 0:06:57 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
-Speech! -Speech! -Speech! | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
-Well, I... I don't know what to say. -HORSE WHINNIES | 0:07:15 | 0:07:20 | |
You shouldn't have. I can't tell you how much... | 0:07:20 | 0:07:24 | |
HORSE WHINNIES | 0:07:24 | 0:07:26 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:07:26 | 0:07:28 | |
I'm not good at making speeches... | 0:07:28 | 0:07:31 | |
HORSE WHINNIES | 0:07:31 | 0:07:33 | |
-LAUGHTER -He seems to be able to say it far better than I can. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:39 | |
Thank you, thank you all. Now, let's go on with the dance. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:45 | |
PIPE MUSIC RESTARTS | 0:07:48 | 0:07:51 | |
INAUDIBLE | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
INAUDIBLE | 0:08:14 | 0:08:18 | |
INAUDIBLE | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
CHILD GROANS | 0:08:37 | 0:08:40 | |
Does it hurt here, Dorrie? | 0:08:45 | 0:08:48 | |
Here too? | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
She went lame yesterday, just like I've seen cows do before they fall. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:54 | |
Can't you straighten your leg, Dorrie? | 0:08:58 | 0:09:02 | |
Try this one. Try, now. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
There, don't cry. We're not going to hurt you. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:12 | |
Try and go to sleep now. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:15 | |
I fell over. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
Yes. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:22 | |
But we're going to fix you up. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
Are you sure it isn't the cow sickness? | 0:09:39 | 0:09:42 | |
-What ails her, Nurse Kenny? -What is it? | 0:09:42 | 0:09:46 | |
Don't you know what it is? | 0:09:49 | 0:09:51 | |
No, Martha, I don't. | 0:09:54 | 0:09:57 | |
-Where's the nearest telegraph office? -Dry Fork. -How long will it take? -About an hour. | 0:09:57 | 0:10:03 | |
Wake up the operator. It's got to get through. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:07 | |
-It's a Dr McDonnell in Toowoomba. -But he can't get out here. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:11 | |
He can tell me what to do. Please hurry. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:15 | |
-< -Mummy, can I go with Daddy? -You go back to sleep now, Nora. | 0:10:19 | 0:10:25 | |
Martha, keep the twins away from Dorrie. It might be catching. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:30 | |
DORRIE GROANS | 0:10:30 | 0:10:32 | |
-Can't you do something? The pain's so bad. -I can't do anything until I hear from Dr McDonnell. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:39 | |
I can't stand to hear her cry. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
Go and make some tea and try and get some rest. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:46 | |
Everything will be all right when we hear from Dr McDonnell. | 0:10:46 | 0:10:51 | |
DORRIE GROANS | 0:10:54 | 0:10:56 | |
Nurse Kenny! Nurse Kenny! | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
Did you get an answer? | 0:11:43 | 0:11:46 | |
What is it? | 0:11:48 | 0:11:51 | |
-What does it say? -Infantile paralysis. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:54 | |
-Paralysis? -They don't know how to treat it. What kind of help is that? | 0:11:54 | 0:11:59 | |
-"No known treatment." -That's what it says. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:07 | |
What are we going to do? | 0:12:23 | 0:12:25 | |
-What the telegram says. -It says "no known treatment". -Read it again. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:30 | |
"Do the best you can with the..." | 0:12:30 | 0:12:34 | |
"With the symptoms presenting themselves." | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
She's twisted into knots. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:41 | |
Yes. These muscles are contracted. They're pulling her into knots. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:46 | |
-They're paralysed? -If they were paralysed, they couldn't pull. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:50 | |
They feel tense. | 0:12:50 | 0:12:53 | |
Her back is arched. | 0:12:53 | 0:12:55 | |
The spinal muscles feel contracted. | 0:12:55 | 0:12:58 | |
DORRIE MOANS | 0:12:58 | 0:13:01 | |
The posterior neck muscles too. | 0:13:06 | 0:13:09 | |
Better? | 0:13:12 | 0:13:13 | |
They look to me to be shorter than they should be. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:22 | |
Pulling against other muscles. That's why she's in pain. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:27 | |
You see, this muscle isn't tense. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:33 | |
This opposing muscle is. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:35 | |
Looks to me to be drawn up in a kind of spasm or something. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:41 | |
Spasm. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:47 | |
I'll need your help, Martha. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:54 | |
I'm going to try moist heat, as hot as she can stand it. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:59 | |
We'll tear an old blanket into strips. Build up the fire. | 0:13:59 | 0:14:04 | |
Get me the basin first, please. Martha, You'd better bring towels. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:09 | |
Help Martha first, please. Take that towel. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:13 | |
Take the other end of it, Martha. | 0:14:13 | 0:14:16 | |
Hold it over the basin. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:19 | |
Now, you keep fixing these strips. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:22 | |
I'll put them on Dorrie as fast as they're ready. Here. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:26 | |
Give me that end. Lift the basin, Martha. Twist it now. Hard. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:31 | |
There mustn't be any water in that wool or it'll scald her skin. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:36 | |
Like that. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:38 | |
Get another one ready. You'll have to do this whenever they lose heat. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:43 | |
Now Dorrie, this is going to feel hot but it won't burn you. | 0:14:43 | 0:14:48 | |
Don't be frightened. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:50 | |
I'm going to wrap you all up in hot rags. | 0:14:50 | 0:14:54 | |
-I won't need any more, Martha. -> | 0:15:07 | 0:15:10 | |
There. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:25 | |
Now we'll keep the heat in. | 0:15:25 | 0:15:28 | |
Feeling better, Dorrie? | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
Dorrie? | 0:15:33 | 0:15:35 | |
She's asleep! | 0:15:35 | 0:15:37 | |
-Hello, Kevin! -Hello, Mr Kenny. -Well, well, well. | 0:15:57 | 0:16:02 | |
-How are you, my boy? -Grand, thank you. -Hello. -Mother Kenny. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:07 | |
-You look so well. -It's lovely to see you. -The army hasn't done you any harm. -It's good to get out of it. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:14 | |
-This country suits me. -We expected you last night. -Oh? | 0:16:14 | 0:16:19 | |
-Where's Elizabeth? -We've hardly seen her for days. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:23 | |
-Infantile paralysis - she's got five cases. -I hope it doesn't spread any more. | 0:16:23 | 0:16:29 | |
If you want an epidemic, just send for me. What did you say it was? | 0:16:29 | 0:16:34 | |
Infantile paralysis. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:36 | |
-That's bad, isn't it? -Terrible. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:39 | |
-It would break your heart to see those children. -Is it contagious? | 0:16:39 | 0:16:44 | |
Nobody seems to know anything about it. | 0:16:44 | 0:16:47 | |
Whisht! Here she comes. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:51 | |
Get back, she'll see you. Remember the plan. Get in the pantry. | 0:16:55 | 0:17:00 | |
Get busy, Mary. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:02 | |
-I think it's mean. -Come on, Mary. Cut the bread, pour the tea. Whatever you do, do it natural. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:09 | |
Michael. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:11 | |
-Is he here yet? -Are you sure it was today? | 0:17:18 | 0:17:22 | |
Well, you saw his letter. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:25 | |
-Any more cases, dear? -No, thank goodness. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:30 | |
-How's the little Benson girl? -Only fair. I'm going over there tonight. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:35 | |
-Got to go to the McIntyres first. -What about Kevin? | 0:17:35 | 0:17:39 | |
-Why does he have to come at a time like this? -Elizabeth! -I mean it. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:44 | |
That's a fine way to talk | 0:17:44 | 0:17:46 | |
-about a fine boy fighting in India for the motherland. -Nonsense. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:51 | |
He was sitting on a small hill in Afghanistan. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:54 | |
-What would he say if he heard that? -That's what he told me. -You know you wanna see him. -Course I do. | 0:17:54 | 0:18:02 | |
I'm dying to see him but look at me. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:04 | |
I don't want things to happen like last time. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:08 | |
-There's mutton in the pantry, can you get it? -I just want some tea. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:13 | |
-Hm. Why the best china? -It's pretty, isn't it? | 0:18:15 | 0:18:19 | |
Oh, I've mislaid my spectacles. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:29 | |
Where...? Oh, yes. I was fixing a shelf in the pantry. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:33 | |
Elizabeth, would you...? | 0:18:33 | 0:18:35 | |
Thank you. | 0:18:35 | 0:18:37 | |
I think I will have some of that mutton. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
PLATE SMASHES | 0:18:46 | 0:18:49 | |
Kevin, I don't think you should come. | 0:18:56 | 0:18:59 | |
-You only found one case in a family and then in houses miles apart. -That doesn't prove it isn't catching. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:06 | |
My only chance of getting attention from you is to get sick myself. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:11 | |
I want to see Dorrie McIntyre. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:14 | |
Come on, boy. Whoa! | 0:19:14 | 0:19:17 | |
Whoa! Nurse Kenny, my mother wants you to come as quick as you can. | 0:19:21 | 0:19:25 | |
-What happened? -My brother's got it. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:28 | |
Oh. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:30 | |
Is he in much pain? | 0:19:30 | 0:19:32 | |
Yes, his back's bent and he can hardly breathe. Will you come? | 0:19:32 | 0:19:37 | |
Yes, Geordie. I'll come. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:41 | |
-But Liz, can't I drive you? -It looks like it's contagious this time. | 0:19:44 | 0:19:49 | |
Will you go on to the McIntyres and say I'll be along as soon as I can. | 0:19:49 | 0:19:54 | |
I'll drive over with Geordie. You can bring me back. Gee-up! | 0:19:56 | 0:20:00 | |
Come on, boy. Take your time. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:15 | |
Dorrie, that's exactly what happened. | 0:20:18 | 0:20:21 | |
Just when I was all ready, Nurse Kenny rode off with another chap. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:26 | |
Dorrie here is just as bad, Nurse Kenny. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:29 | |
-She didn't even remember me. -You remember him, don't you? | 0:20:29 | 0:20:33 | |
-No, I don't. -Three years ago you went to sleep in my arms. -I didn't! | 0:20:33 | 0:20:38 | |
He brought your brother and sister. No, he didn't! | 0:20:38 | 0:20:42 | |
-Where are the twins? -At my sister-in-law's. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:46 | |
-Nurse thought it might be catching. -Does that hurt? -No. -Good girl. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:52 | |
-She has been good, Nurse Kenny, so still and patient. -When we changed the rags, she never stirred. | 0:20:52 | 0:20:59 | |
I don't think she's going to need more hot rags. The spasm's gone. | 0:20:59 | 0:21:04 | |
-You'll soon be dancing around like a kangaroo. -Will you dance with me? | 0:21:04 | 0:21:09 | |
-I don't know how. -Well, I'll teach you. Captain Connors is very good. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:15 | |
-I don't know how she knows. -You always thought you were. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:19 | |
You won't need me any more. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
-Can she get up now? -Yes. Sit up and we'll put your nightie on. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:27 | |
All the way up, dear. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:29 | |
-Don't tease Nurse Kenny. Sit up. Here's your nightie. -Just a minute. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:35 | |
-Don't you want to sit up, Dorrie? -Yes. | 0:21:35 | 0:21:39 | |
Lie still. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
Now, do that yourself. Put your knee up like you do when you walk. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:56 | |
Pull it up, darling. Try, dear. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
-Try hard. -I can't! | 0:22:03 | 0:22:06 | |
Move your leg, dear. Just move it. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:11 | |
-I can't! -She's paralysed. -Martha. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:15 | |
-Does this leg feel numb, Dorrie? -It feels funny. -Course it does. | 0:22:22 | 0:22:28 | |
See how I'm moving your leg now? | 0:22:28 | 0:22:31 | |
It's as if you were walking in bed. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:34 | |
The legs look perfectly normal to me. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:37 | |
Dorrie, I think you're just lazy. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:42 | |
You want me to move your legs for you when you walk. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:47 | |
That's a silly idea, isn't it? | 0:22:47 | 0:22:49 | |
There now. I'm tired of walking for you. You do it for yourself. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:54 | |
Lift your legs as if you were walking, Dorrie. | 0:22:54 | 0:22:59 | |
-Try, Dorrie. -I can't. I can't! | 0:23:02 | 0:23:05 | |
Oh, my baby! She's paralysed. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:08 | |
MARTHA SOBS | 0:23:08 | 0:23:12 | |
-Teach me how to dance, Nurse Kenny. -Oh, my baby, my baby! | 0:23:22 | 0:23:27 | |
You know what the trouble is? | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
You've forgotten how to walk. You've been in bed so long. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:41 | |
I didn't forget. My legs won't do it. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:44 | |
Very well then. We'll blame your legs. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:47 | |
Dorrie didn't forget. They forgot. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:51 | |
Look at those wicked legs. They've forgotten how to walk. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:57 | |
We're going to have to teach them all over again. | 0:23:57 | 0:24:01 | |
How can I teach them when they haven't got ears? | 0:24:01 | 0:24:06 | |
Dorrie, you should have grown ears on your legs. | 0:24:06 | 0:24:10 | |
Do you know how people talk to each other when they haven't got ears? | 0:24:10 | 0:24:14 | |
They talk with their hands. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:17 | |
That's what we're going to do. | 0:24:20 | 0:24:23 | |
You don't know it, Dorrie, but I'm scolding away at these muscles. | 0:24:27 | 0:24:32 | |
Yes. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:37 | |
I'm giving them such a talking to. | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
-Dorrie, one of them just answered back. -What did it say? | 0:24:43 | 0:24:48 | |
It said it couldn't remember. | 0:24:48 | 0:24:50 | |
-I told it it had to remember. -Think, dear. Think hard. Try to remember. | 0:24:50 | 0:24:56 | |
This has nothing to do with her memory. I don't want her to think. | 0:24:56 | 0:25:01 | |
-Look. -What is it? | 0:25:01 | 0:25:05 | |
Dorrie, your leg just told me something. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:09 | |
It's beginning to think it can remember. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:12 | |
Now, you think, Dorrie. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
Think with it. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:21 | |
Think of pulling from here. | 0:25:21 | 0:25:24 | |
Pulling from here, Dorrie. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:43 | |
Now, lift your leg. | 0:25:45 | 0:25:47 | |
Lift your leg. | 0:25:47 | 0:25:50 | |
My darling! | 0:25:58 | 0:26:00 | |
-You wicked leg. -I wouldn't scold it, Dorrie. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:06 | |
The last thing it said to me was that it was going to be good. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:10 | |
You're going to walk again, Dorrie, and dance, but it will take time. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:18 | |
That's enough for today. | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
Oh, Kevin, I was scared. | 0:26:28 | 0:26:31 | |
I sort of thought so. | 0:26:31 | 0:26:34 | |
But Dorrie didn't know it. Neither did her mother. | 0:26:34 | 0:26:38 | |
Liz, before she moved her leg, you told me to look. What was I to see? | 0:26:38 | 0:26:43 | |
The tendon. It began to stand out. Then I knew it wasn't paralysed. | 0:26:43 | 0:26:48 | |
I'd been trying to get that reflex. If I'd been a doctor I'd have known what to do. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:54 | |
-It's lucky I found out on my first case. I may get the same with the others. -How's Geordie's brother? | 0:26:54 | 0:27:01 | |
Pretty bad. | 0:27:01 | 0:27:04 | |
You know, Liz, sometimes I get scared. | 0:27:04 | 0:27:07 | |
What made you take up nursing in the first place? | 0:27:07 | 0:27:11 | |
I like nursing. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:14 | |
Where's it going to end? | 0:27:14 | 0:27:17 | |
Kevin, what are you afraid of? | 0:27:17 | 0:27:20 | |
You and nursing. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:22 | |
Oh, darling. Don't be ridiculous! | 0:27:22 | 0:27:25 | |
-I told you I'd give it up when you came back. -Well, I'm here. | 0:27:25 | 0:27:30 | |
-And I'm going to marry you. -When? -As soon as these children are well. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:35 | |
-No more cases? -No more cases. -No more babies? -No more...well. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:39 | |
Except our own. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:42 | |
Cold feet? | 0:28:05 | 0:28:07 | |
They're freezing. You don't know him. | 0:28:07 | 0:28:10 | |
-Do you mind if I see him alone first? -No. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:14 | |
-I don't see why you have to. -I'll be two minutes. -We'll wait two minutes. Come on, Dorrie. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:21 | |
-Elizabeth, you look as if you're going to a party. -Do you like it? | 0:28:24 | 0:28:29 | |
-Yes. Have a chicken leg. I'm just eating my lunch. -Well, you eat it. | 0:28:29 | 0:28:34 | |
-A pickle? -No, thanks. Doctor, you're going to be disappointed in me. | 0:28:34 | 0:28:38 | |
-Oh, no! I'm sure you did the right thing. -You knew about it all along? | 0:28:38 | 0:28:44 | |
-Why, of course! -Well... Who told you? | 0:28:44 | 0:28:48 | |
-You did. You sent me the telegram. -Oh, dear. This has nothing to do... | 0:28:48 | 0:28:53 | |
I asked Dr Brack to go, but with so many cases here, he didn't have time. | 0:28:53 | 0:28:57 | |
-Thank goodness you had only one. -Six. | 0:28:57 | 0:29:01 | |
Six? | 0:29:01 | 0:29:03 | |
-Six. -Oh, dear. | 0:29:03 | 0:29:06 | |
-Now - why I'm here. There's a young man outside... -How many cases did you lose? How many children died? | 0:29:06 | 0:29:13 | |
Why, none. | 0:29:13 | 0:29:16 | |
-Dr McDonnell, I want you to meet a man... -I'll examine him later. | 0:29:17 | 0:29:22 | |
How much crippling did you have? | 0:29:22 | 0:29:24 | |
-How many children are deformed? -Not any! | 0:29:24 | 0:29:28 | |
You had five more cases like the one you described and they recovered? | 0:29:28 | 0:29:33 | |
-Yes. -That's fantastic. | 0:29:33 | 0:29:35 | |
I'm still working on my last case. I'm still re-educating his muscles. | 0:29:35 | 0:29:40 | |
-What? -Teaching them to work again. | 0:29:40 | 0:29:43 | |
Teaching, re-educating - you must know all about it. | 0:29:43 | 0:29:47 | |
-It's what you told me to do. -What did I say? -Treat the symptoms. | 0:29:47 | 0:29:52 | |
For spasm, moist heat. Then I had a shock when I had to re-educate the muscles. You didn't mention that. | 0:29:52 | 0:29:59 | |
Re-education, moist heat, spasm - these terms are not in the standard work on infantile paralysis. | 0:29:59 | 0:30:06 | |
-May I see it? -You'll see something else first. Come with me. | 0:30:06 | 0:30:11 | |
One of us is crazy. | 0:30:11 | 0:30:13 | |
-Liz! -> | 0:30:13 | 0:30:15 | |
I'll be with you in a moment. | 0:30:15 | 0:30:18 | |
Now, these are cases of infantile paralysis that ran true to form. | 0:30:23 | 0:30:28 | |
-Hello, doctor. -Hello, how's Becky? | 0:30:29 | 0:30:31 | |
Oh, Becky's fine today. | 0:30:31 | 0:30:34 | |
-Hello, Dr McDonnell! -Hello, David. | 0:30:34 | 0:30:38 | |
Are they getting better? | 0:30:39 | 0:30:42 | |
They get worse instead of better. | 0:30:42 | 0:30:45 | |
88 out of every 100 cases finish this way. | 0:30:46 | 0:30:50 | |
-So you had six cases and they all recovered? -Yes. -That's fantastic. | 0:30:59 | 0:31:04 | |
-Let's check the symptoms. Headache? -Yes. -Fever? -Yes. -Muscular pain? Limbs twisted? Back arched? -Yes. | 0:31:04 | 0:31:11 | |
-Trouble breathing? -One case. -That's very bad. -Liz! -With you in a moment. | 0:31:11 | 0:31:16 | |
It couldn't be a clearer picture, Elizabeth. | 0:31:16 | 0:31:20 | |
There's infantile paralysis in the acute stage. Is that what you saw? | 0:31:20 | 0:31:25 | |
Yes. That's exactly like my second case. That's like the Benson girl. | 0:31:25 | 0:31:30 | |
-The same muscles were shortened. -Shortened? -They were in spasm. | 0:31:30 | 0:31:35 | |
-You said treat the symptoms. That's all I did. -That's what you think. | 0:31:35 | 0:31:40 | |
Elizabeth, I don't think you realise what you've done. | 0:31:40 | 0:31:44 | |
I may be wrong. I'm just a general practitioner. | 0:31:44 | 0:31:48 | |
Dr Brack will know. It's his field. Let's go to his office. | 0:31:48 | 0:31:52 | |
-He's one of the best. -Dr McDonnell. -I'll be with you in a moment. | 0:31:52 | 0:31:57 | |
We'll stop this. | 0:32:03 | 0:32:05 | |
I shall never forget that telegram. | 0:32:09 | 0:32:12 | |
-It was as concise a description of the symptoms of poliomyelitis as I've ever seen. -Thank you, doctor. | 0:32:12 | 0:32:20 | |
Sit down. I want to hear everything. It was a little girl? | 0:32:20 | 0:32:24 | |
-Yes. -Tragic business. Is she badly crippled? -No. -Fine, fine. | 0:32:24 | 0:32:29 | |
-You were lucky only one case developed. -She had six cases. | 0:32:29 | 0:32:33 | |
Really? But, why weren't they reported? | 0:32:33 | 0:32:37 | |
-They have all recovered and there is no crippling. -How extraordinary. | 0:32:37 | 0:32:42 | |
No crippling, Brack. | 0:32:42 | 0:32:44 | |
I don't know of another epidemic that was so light. | 0:32:44 | 0:32:49 | |
-I wouldn't call it light. -I don't think you've got the point. | 0:32:49 | 0:32:53 | |
I'm no expert, | 0:32:53 | 0:32:56 | |
but I think she has discovered a new treatment for infantile paralysis, | 0:32:56 | 0:33:01 | |
and what's more, it's successful. | 0:33:01 | 0:33:03 | |
McDonnell, I'd say you may be wrong. | 0:33:03 | 0:33:07 | |
-But let's hear it. Sit down, Nurse Kenny. Sit down. -You sit down. -Don't mind my scepticism. | 0:33:07 | 0:33:13 | |
McDonnell is a joker. He may be pulling my leg. | 0:33:13 | 0:33:17 | |
-What did you do? -First, I treated the shortened muscles for spasm. | 0:33:17 | 0:33:23 | |
-Spasm? -Spasm. | 0:33:23 | 0:33:25 | |
-And then? -Then I thought they were well but they weren't. | 0:33:25 | 0:33:30 | |
Some muscles were paralysed. | 0:33:30 | 0:33:32 | |
-I thought they were. -Well, weren't they? | 0:33:33 | 0:33:36 | |
They were disconnected from the brain, alienated. | 0:33:36 | 0:33:40 | |
They certainly didn't work. | 0:33:40 | 0:33:43 | |
Oh, I see - alienated. | 0:33:43 | 0:33:45 | |
It wasn't the sick muscles that were alienated. It was the others. | 0:33:45 | 0:33:50 | |
Did you hear that? The other ones were alienated. What did you do? | 0:33:50 | 0:33:55 | |
There was still some reflex, so I re-educated the muscles. | 0:33:55 | 0:33:59 | |
And they lived happily ever after? | 0:34:01 | 0:34:04 | |
-McDonnell, are you serious about this? -I certainly am. | 0:34:04 | 0:34:09 | |
Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. | 0:34:09 | 0:34:12 | |
Nurse Kenny, I don't want to hurt your feelings. You did a fine job. | 0:34:12 | 0:34:17 | |
-But it might be useful for you to know what really happens in polio. -But what happens didn't happen. | 0:34:17 | 0:34:24 | |
We'll come to that in a minute. Come here. | 0:34:24 | 0:34:28 | |
I use this to show how infantile paralysis produces deformity. | 0:34:28 | 0:34:33 | |
This is the normal functioning of the leg. The muscles pull against each other in pairs. | 0:34:33 | 0:34:40 | |
What happens in infantile paralysis? | 0:34:40 | 0:34:43 | |
These muscles become paralysed and can't pull. | 0:34:43 | 0:34:47 | |
These normal muscles contract and, meeting no resistance, pull the leg into a deformed position. | 0:34:47 | 0:34:54 | |
-Did you see that in your patients? -Yes. -It may become a permanent deformity. -What do you say to that? | 0:34:54 | 0:35:01 | |
-You say these muscles are sick. -Paralysed. | 0:35:01 | 0:35:04 | |
But if they were not paralysed. | 0:35:04 | 0:35:08 | |
If they were normal and these ones were sick, drawn up in spasm, | 0:35:08 | 0:35:13 | |
they'd contract and you'd get the same deformity, wouldn't you? | 0:35:13 | 0:35:18 | |
-Exactly what occurred to me. -Nonsense. You're trying to find a reason for an irrational concept. | 0:35:18 | 0:35:25 | |
-But it IS rational. -You can't take theory that's been accepted for 50 years and turn it upside-down. | 0:35:25 | 0:35:32 | |
-Spasm, re-education... I don't know what they mean. -They're not in the books. Nurse knows what they mean. | 0:35:32 | 0:35:39 | |
If her theories were correct, she'd have discovered not a new treatment but a new disease. | 0:35:39 | 0:35:46 | |
Fine, as long as she can cure it. | 0:35:46 | 0:35:49 | |
-Are we to take Nurse Kenny's work against Sir Robert Jenkins? -Oh, no! | 0:35:49 | 0:35:54 | |
You can't take her word when you haven't heard it. | 0:35:54 | 0:35:58 | |
I think this is very important. | 0:35:58 | 0:36:00 | |
I'm asking you to sit down and listen to what she did. | 0:36:00 | 0:36:05 | |
Very well. | 0:36:05 | 0:36:07 | |
Oh, sorry. | 0:36:15 | 0:36:18 | |
Where's Nurse Kenny? | 0:36:21 | 0:36:23 | |
It's about time to find out, Dorrie. | 0:36:23 | 0:36:26 | |
Come on. | 0:36:26 | 0:36:28 | |
Let me sum up your interpretation of the symptoms you observed. | 0:36:32 | 0:36:38 | |
You say the muscle we call sick is not sick, | 0:36:38 | 0:36:41 | |
but it's the opposing muscle. | 0:36:41 | 0:36:44 | |
Secondly, you say that the sick muscles do not become paralysed, | 0:36:44 | 0:36:50 | |
-but that the opposing muscles, pulled out of their normal length, lose their function. -Yes, doctor. | 0:36:50 | 0:36:58 | |
These apparently paralysed muscles can have their function restored | 0:36:58 | 0:37:03 | |
by stimulating certain reflexes, | 0:37:03 | 0:37:06 | |
-what you call re-education. -That's it. | 0:37:06 | 0:37:10 | |
Well, yes. These certainly are revolutionary discoveries. | 0:37:11 | 0:37:16 | |
-So, I've found a way to help the children? -No, you've wasted my time. | 0:37:16 | 0:37:22 | |
Before you revolutionise medicine, learn that it is facts not fancies. | 0:37:22 | 0:37:28 | |
-But surely, Brack... -It's taken me 20 years to collect this library. | 0:37:28 | 0:37:33 | |
Every book in this section is by an authority on polio. | 0:37:33 | 0:37:37 | |
Spasm, re-education, alienation - you won't find them in the books. | 0:37:37 | 0:37:42 | |
-They deal with facts. -But that's what we are here for. | 0:37:42 | 0:37:46 | |
Nurse Kenny's brought a few facts and they're new ones. | 0:37:46 | 0:37:51 | |
-She did something. -She did something dangerous. | 0:37:51 | 0:37:54 | |
The acute stage has no treatment. | 0:37:54 | 0:37:57 | |
The only fight is against frightful deformity. | 0:37:57 | 0:38:00 | |
-The only treatment is prompt, complete immobilisation. -How? | 0:38:00 | 0:38:05 | |
-You put them in splints. -But they must be in agony. | 0:38:05 | 0:38:09 | |
It's better than lifelong deformity. | 0:38:09 | 0:38:12 | |
If you make the arms and legs rigid, how can they learn to walk again? | 0:38:12 | 0:38:17 | |
My dear girl... | 0:38:17 | 0:38:22 | |
KNOCK AT DOOR | 0:38:19 | 0:38:22 | |
Yes? | 0:38:20 | 0:38:22 | |
He can do it now, Dr Brack. He insisted on coming right now. | 0:38:23 | 0:38:28 | |
Excellent. Show me. You're very clever, David. | 0:38:28 | 0:38:32 | |
-Go ahead, you've got an audience. -Easy, David. -No, as hard as you can. | 0:38:32 | 0:38:37 | |
-Oh, I'm sorry, Dr Brack! -Not at all. | 0:38:39 | 0:38:42 | |
That's very clever of you, David. I'm glad you came in. | 0:38:42 | 0:38:47 | |
Nurse Kenny, this is an example of poliomyelitis in its chronic stage. | 0:38:47 | 0:38:53 | |
He had no spasm, no hot pack, no alienation or re-education. | 0:38:53 | 0:38:57 | |
You should not encourage a nurse to contradict the greatest... | 0:38:57 | 0:39:02 | |
-I'm not contradicting you. -I don't mean myself. | 0:39:02 | 0:39:06 | |
I'm not contradicting anybody. I didn't know what the disease was. | 0:39:06 | 0:39:12 | |
-It was your diagnosis, Brack. -Your patients are not deformed? -No. | 0:39:12 | 0:39:17 | |
-Deformities can develop later. -Look, the man you wanted me to examine. | 0:39:17 | 0:39:23 | |
No, it's the child. This is my first patient. Come here, Dorrie. | 0:39:23 | 0:39:28 | |
-Take a look at her, Brack. Is she recovered or not? -Let's find out. | 0:39:28 | 0:39:33 | |
-Kevin, come in. I'll explain in a minute. -Take her clothes off, nurse. | 0:39:33 | 0:39:38 | |
Yes, doctor. | 0:39:38 | 0:39:40 | |
-Which leg was affected? -Both legs. | 0:39:41 | 0:39:44 | |
Sit down, dear. | 0:39:44 | 0:39:46 | |
-Arms? -No, not the arms. | 0:39:46 | 0:39:49 | |
-Spine? -Yes, and the posterior neck muscles. | 0:39:49 | 0:39:53 | |
Dorrie, look at those knees. You've got them all dirty. | 0:39:54 | 0:39:58 | |
Those hands aren't too clean either. | 0:39:58 | 0:40:01 | |
Now, lie down for the doctor. | 0:40:01 | 0:40:04 | |
OK. | 0:40:04 | 0:40:06 | |
Now, flex your leg. | 0:40:06 | 0:40:09 | |
Hold your leg against my hand. Hold tight. | 0:40:11 | 0:40:15 | |
Normal strength - she takes full resistance. Pull your foot up. | 0:40:16 | 0:40:21 | |
Push down. | 0:40:24 | 0:40:26 | |
Yes... Sit up. | 0:40:27 | 0:40:29 | |
Lean forward. | 0:40:31 | 0:40:33 | |
Perfectly straight, no scoliosis. | 0:40:35 | 0:40:38 | |
-Sit up. -You did a good job. She looks perfectly well. -Perfectly. | 0:40:38 | 0:40:43 | |
I knew you just had to see her. Show the doctor how you can run. | 0:40:43 | 0:40:48 | |
I can dance too. She taught me how to dance. I can do cartwheels. | 0:40:48 | 0:40:53 | |
There it is. | 0:41:01 | 0:41:03 | |
They've had the same disease and different treatments. | 0:41:03 | 0:41:07 | |
-Are you sick? -I was, but I'm well now. | 0:41:07 | 0:41:11 | |
-What's your name? -David. | 0:41:11 | 0:41:14 | |
-What's your name? -Dorrie. | 0:41:14 | 0:41:17 | |
-You know what? I can kick a football. -Wanna see me dance again? | 0:41:18 | 0:41:24 | |
No, do another cartwheel. | 0:41:24 | 0:41:27 | |
Dorrie. | 0:41:27 | 0:41:29 | |
-Come along, David. Nurse, take him out of here. -Yes, doctor. | 0:41:33 | 0:41:38 | |
-Goodbye. -Bye. | 0:41:43 | 0:41:46 | |
Well, it looks like this little fact here with dirty knees is not your books and braces orthodox treatment. | 0:41:56 | 0:42:04 | |
I said your facts weren't right. Here's your first wrong fact. | 0:42:04 | 0:42:09 | |
This child never had infantile paralysis. | 0:42:09 | 0:42:12 | |
-Never had it? -Not a trace of it. -Are you out of your mind? | 0:42:12 | 0:42:17 | |
-My experience proves that no child could have recovered from polio so quickly. -Then what did she have? | 0:42:17 | 0:42:24 | |
-I wasn't there. -But the telegram... | 0:42:24 | 0:42:27 | |
The symptoms were not accurately observed. | 0:42:27 | 0:42:30 | |
-Liz, if you want me as a witness... -No, Kevin, please. | 0:42:30 | 0:42:34 | |
-Nurse Kenny says those symptoms were observed. -She's a good nurse. -She's more then that. -Has she got degrees? | 0:42:34 | 0:42:41 | |
That's the point. If she'd been a doctor she'd have followed the orthodox treatment. | 0:42:41 | 0:42:48 | |
-Why not let nurses do our job(?) -OK... KEVIN: Just a minute, doctor. | 0:42:48 | 0:42:54 | |
I saw this child when she couldn't move. | 0:42:54 | 0:42:57 | |
-Are you a doctor too? -I saw her make Dorrie walk. | 0:42:57 | 0:43:01 | |
Nurse Kenny, your friends are going to lead you into grave trouble. | 0:43:01 | 0:43:06 | |
I advise you to stick to nursing and not meddle with medicine. | 0:43:06 | 0:43:11 | |
Leave it to those who've studied it. Excuse me. | 0:43:11 | 0:43:15 | |
Brack, no-one who knows your record can doubt your sincerity or ability. | 0:43:15 | 0:43:21 | |
But, since I know Nurse Kenny better than you do, I can't dismiss this. | 0:43:21 | 0:43:26 | |
All you have to do is try Nurse Kenny's treatment on one acute case. | 0:43:26 | 0:43:32 | |
Never would I consent to it! You can't play with children's lives. | 0:43:32 | 0:43:37 | |
-This is a tragic business. -That's just why I'm asking. | 0:43:37 | 0:43:42 | |
You've seen a few cases. I've seen thousands. | 0:43:42 | 0:43:45 | |
I'm in charge here, not you. | 0:43:45 | 0:43:48 | |
-But if no new treatment were ever tried... -I won't experiment with children. -Not even to save them? | 0:43:48 | 0:43:55 | |
Even if you think a treatment is dangerous, it's your duty to try it. | 0:43:55 | 0:44:00 | |
-Guinea pigs, yes. Children, no. I wouldn't let my children... -I would. | 0:44:00 | 0:44:05 | |
You have no children. | 0:44:07 | 0:44:10 | |
Well, I'm glad you're through with it. | 0:44:26 | 0:44:29 | |
We're not licked yet, Elizabeth. | 0:44:29 | 0:44:32 | |
As long as I live, I'll never forget David...ever. | 0:44:32 | 0:44:37 | |
PIANO PLAYS | 0:44:43 | 0:44:48 | |
I don't know who's having the best time, Dorrie or Mrs McDonnell. | 0:44:57 | 0:45:02 | |
-I don't think we should have any children. -Why? | 0:45:02 | 0:45:06 | |
-You wouldn't have any time left for me. -Then I won't have any. | 0:45:06 | 0:45:10 | |
Fine. | 0:45:10 | 0:45:12 | |
That's settled. | 0:45:12 | 0:45:15 | |
No brats. | 0:45:16 | 0:45:18 | |
How many do you really want? | 0:45:18 | 0:45:21 | |
-Well, I plan on ten. -I think I'll go on being a nurse. | 0:45:21 | 0:45:25 | |
Not after next Saturday. No married nurses in this country. | 0:45:25 | 0:45:30 | |
Liz, you forgot to tell me, what did McDonnell say? | 0:45:30 | 0:45:34 | |
-About what? -Our getting married. | 0:45:34 | 0:45:37 | |
Did he get angry? | 0:45:37 | 0:45:40 | |
You forgot to tell him. | 0:45:41 | 0:45:44 | |
-What's the matter, Liz? Are you ashamed of me? -Oh, no! | 0:45:46 | 0:45:50 | |
Well, here's your chance to prove it. | 0:45:50 | 0:45:54 | |
I'll be with you in a moment. | 0:45:57 | 0:46:00 | |
He must have had another fight with Dr Brack. | 0:46:00 | 0:46:04 | |
-The doctor's in his office. -Thanks, dear. | 0:46:12 | 0:46:16 | |
-Hello, darling. -Emily. | 0:46:22 | 0:46:24 | |
-Have you had any food? -No, could you get me a snack? -I'll warm it up. | 0:46:26 | 0:46:31 | |
Come in here, you two. | 0:46:32 | 0:46:34 | |
-This is tougher than I thought. -Didn't you get anywhere? | 0:46:44 | 0:46:48 | |
About that far. He wouldn't let you touch a case of polio with a pole. | 0:46:48 | 0:46:53 | |
-Brack isn't the only specialist in Australia. -Everyone would back him. | 0:46:53 | 0:46:57 | |
He's a brilliant man. In his opinion, he's defending the lives of children. | 0:46:57 | 0:47:02 | |
-He'll never let you touch an acute case. -I did it as a nurse. | 0:47:02 | 0:47:07 | |
Try it again, you'll be prosecuted. | 0:47:07 | 0:47:10 | |
Brack's on the warpath. Even my scalp feels a bit loose at the edges. | 0:47:10 | 0:47:14 | |
-Take it to the newspapers. -That's wonderful. -He wouldn't have a hope. | 0:47:14 | 0:47:19 | |
If you were a quack, that's what I'd tell you to do. You'd hang yourself. | 0:47:19 | 0:47:25 | |
Medical questions aren't settled in newspapers. | 0:47:25 | 0:47:28 | |
-You'd brand yourself as a fake in the eyes of every decent doctor. -Are they all fools? -Look, captain. | 0:47:28 | 0:47:36 | |
Suppose a civilian came to you and said military science was all wrong. | 0:47:36 | 0:47:41 | |
The medical profession is society's only defence against quackery. | 0:47:41 | 0:47:47 | |
Our degrees, licences and medical associations protect society | 0:47:47 | 0:47:51 | |
against men who are willing to trade on human ignorance and misery. | 0:47:51 | 0:47:56 | |
-That's a beautiful speech, but you go on making cripples. -There must be some way you can try what I did. | 0:47:56 | 0:48:04 | |
I can't, but you can. | 0:48:04 | 0:48:08 | |
-Elizabeth, do you believe in your treatment? -Of course. | 0:48:09 | 0:48:14 | |
Then take their failures - the Davids - you can find plenty of them. | 0:48:14 | 0:48:19 | |
You saw some today. | 0:48:19 | 0:48:21 | |
They'll be discharged soon, hidden away in little houses, in forgotten streets, with broken-hearted parents. | 0:48:21 | 0:48:28 | |
Take the worst cases - that can't walk. | 0:48:28 | 0:48:32 | |
Make them walk and your treatment, | 0:48:32 | 0:48:34 | |
the Kenny treatment, will be adopted in every hospital in Australia, | 0:48:34 | 0:48:40 | |
in the world. | 0:48:40 | 0:48:42 | |
Take their failures. | 0:48:43 | 0:48:46 | |
What's the matter? | 0:48:46 | 0:48:49 | |
We came here to tell you we're going to be married. | 0:48:49 | 0:48:53 | |
Oh. | 0:48:55 | 0:48:57 | |
Congratulations. | 0:49:00 | 0:49:02 | |
I'll help you, Richard. | 0:49:29 | 0:49:32 | |
-Bye, Miss Kenny. -Goodbye, Valerie. | 0:49:32 | 0:49:35 | |
-Bye, Miss Kenny. -Goodbye, Dorothy. | 0:49:35 | 0:49:38 | |
-You know this isn't our doing. -I know. -We think it a wicked shame. | 0:49:38 | 0:49:43 | |
-Haven't his parents come? -Richard has no parents, doctor. | 0:49:46 | 0:49:51 | |
-We are to take him to the orphanage. -Is that his case history? -Yes. | 0:49:51 | 0:49:56 | |
-Does it say he was given up six months ago as a cripple? -Yes. | 0:49:56 | 0:50:00 | |
By a general practitioner, however. | 0:50:00 | 0:50:03 | |
-Any specialist could see he never had infantile paralysis. -Precisely. | 0:50:03 | 0:50:08 | |
What twisted his legs out of shape, cramp? I've heard that before too. | 0:50:08 | 0:50:13 | |
-He had an obscure nervous derangement. -That's a new one. | 0:50:13 | 0:50:17 | |
So he was treated for five months for infantile paralysis. | 0:50:17 | 0:50:22 | |
We do not discuss these matters in front of patients. | 0:50:22 | 0:50:26 | |
Sit up. I only see doctors when they come to take my patients away. | 0:50:26 | 0:50:31 | |
I had 12 children. All were carried in. | 0:50:31 | 0:50:34 | |
Seven of them walked out tonight. Richard was one of the worst. | 0:50:34 | 0:50:39 | |
I've no intention of arguing. | 0:50:39 | 0:50:42 | |
-All right, my boy... -You don't need to lift him. Come on, Richard. | 0:50:42 | 0:50:47 | |
-We've had fun here, haven't we? -Yes, Nurse Kenny. | 0:50:50 | 0:50:54 | |
You'll have fun where you're going. | 0:50:54 | 0:50:57 | |
-There'll be lots of children to play with. Will you remember all the exercises? -Yes, Nurse Kenny. | 0:50:57 | 0:51:04 | |
All right. | 0:51:04 | 0:51:07 | |
-Off you go. -Come on. -Don't touch him. He'll walk out by himself. | 0:51:07 | 0:51:11 | |
Just a moment. | 0:51:17 | 0:51:19 | |
You forgot something. | 0:51:21 | 0:51:24 | |
Is there anything more I can do? | 0:52:12 | 0:52:15 | |
You've done too much already, Mrs Gordon. I wish I could pay you. | 0:52:15 | 0:52:20 | |
I've been well paid, my dear. | 0:52:20 | 0:52:24 | |
DISTANT SINGING AND MARCHING | 0:52:36 | 0:52:40 | |
# ..It's a long way to go | 0:52:40 | 0:52:44 | |
# It's long way to Tipperary | 0:52:44 | 0:52:48 | |
# To the sweetest girl I know | 0:52:48 | 0:52:52 | |
# Goodbye, Piccadilly | 0:52:53 | 0:52:56 | |
# Farewell, Leicester Square | 0:52:57 | 0:53:00 | |
# It's a long, long way to Tipperary | 0:53:00 | 0:53:04 | |
# But my heart's right there... # | 0:53:04 | 0:53:08 | |
Kevin! | 0:53:31 | 0:53:33 | |
Oh, Kevin, you look wonderful in uniform. | 0:53:36 | 0:53:40 | |
-Best tailor in Toowoomba. How are you? -Fine, except for the fact that you're going away. -Not for long. | 0:53:40 | 0:53:47 | |
-Why didn't you tell me you were going so soon? -I didn't know. | 0:53:47 | 0:53:52 | |
-This address will find me overseas. -I'll write tonight. | 0:53:52 | 0:53:56 | |
-Kevin. -Don't worry, Liz. I'll be back by Christmas. -Don't fall in love with a nurse. -I already am. | 0:53:56 | 0:54:03 | |
-You're mother sent this for the children. How are they? -Seven walking. -Goodbye, darling. -Goodbye. | 0:54:03 | 0:54:10 | |
-Careful, sir. -> | 0:54:10 | 0:54:12 | |
-I still don't see why you want to go in the army. -I'm used to a fight. | 0:54:27 | 0:54:32 | |
I think they'll take you, but not in that hat. | 0:54:32 | 0:54:36 | |
-Have you told Captain Connors? -No. | 0:54:36 | 0:54:39 | |
-I've cabled von Hindenburg to cease firing, so we can have a holiday in Paris. -I wouldn't put it past you. | 0:54:39 | 0:54:46 | |
One last question - you don't start this massage in the acute stage? | 0:54:46 | 0:54:52 | |
-Not until the pain is all gone - and don't call it massage, you sound like Brack. -Well, what is it? | 0:54:52 | 0:54:59 | |
I stimulate subconscious neuromotor impulses, | 0:54:59 | 0:55:02 | |
-by agitating proprioceptors in the periphery. -You what? | 0:55:02 | 0:55:06 | |
-I stimulate subconscious... -Why are you asking all these questions? | 0:55:06 | 0:55:11 | |
Well... | 0:55:12 | 0:55:14 | |
In France, you might forget about it. Take care of yourself. | 0:55:14 | 0:55:18 | |
-You too, for a change. -Don't forget, the fight against polio will outlast the war. | 0:55:18 | 0:55:25 | |
It'll go on until the last doctor dies of it. | 0:55:25 | 0:55:29 | |
DISTANT EXPLOSIONS | 0:55:35 | 0:55:38 | |
This is a new one - putting a soldier underground before he's dead. | 0:55:41 | 0:55:46 | |
-Who ordered this transfer? -I don't know, sir. | 0:55:46 | 0:55:49 | |
-I was fine where I was. -You're supposed to be quiet, sir. | 0:55:49 | 0:55:54 | |
Not until I find out who ordered this transfer. | 0:55:54 | 0:55:58 | |
-Take it easy, sir, we'll get you off. -It's OK, I'll make it myself. | 0:55:58 | 0:56:02 | |
Wait, chaps. Who's in charge here? Who ordered this transfer? | 0:56:09 | 0:56:14 | |
I did, sir. | 0:56:14 | 0:56:16 | |
Liz! | 0:56:17 | 0:56:19 | |
-Anything else, nurse? -No, thank you. | 0:56:22 | 0:56:26 | |
-Any further complaints, Major Connors? -I can't believe it. | 0:56:32 | 0:56:37 | |
But Liz, your last letter was from Lyons. How did you get here? | 0:56:37 | 0:56:42 | |
I had myself transferred, then I had you transferred. | 0:56:42 | 0:56:46 | |
-I wish I had your brains. -Will you come and see me in the guard house? | 0:56:46 | 0:56:51 | |
-Forgery? -Almost. | 0:56:51 | 0:56:53 | |
-Darling, how is your leg? -All it needs is time and a good nurse. | 0:56:53 | 0:56:58 | |
-It's not too bad? -It's the luckiest thing that's happened in four years. | 0:56:58 | 0:57:03 | |
Let's see. | 0:57:09 | 0:57:11 | |
Yes, think of nothing, Clarence. | 0:57:11 | 0:57:14 | |
-What's nothing? -It's er... | 0:57:14 | 0:57:17 | |
-It doesn't matter. Don't pay any attention to what I'm doing. -OK. | 0:57:17 | 0:57:22 | |
-Is there any pain there? -No. | 0:57:22 | 0:57:25 | |
Doctor, I told Dr McDonnell you gave orders not to remove any splints. | 0:57:28 | 0:57:33 | |
-It's OK. I gave permission. -I keep telling her. -What's that for? | 0:57:33 | 0:57:38 | |
You're not supposed to pay any attention to what I'm doing. Relax. | 0:57:38 | 0:57:43 | |
-Why don't you relax? -Clarence. | 0:57:44 | 0:57:47 | |
What are you doing? | 0:57:49 | 0:57:52 | |
I wish you'd stop asking questions. I don't quite know what I'm doing. | 0:57:52 | 0:57:57 | |
If you don't know, I don't. | 0:57:57 | 0:57:59 | |
I'm trying to stimulate subconscious neuromotor impulses, | 0:57:59 | 0:58:04 | |
-by agitating the proprioceptors in the periphery. -Oh. | 0:58:04 | 0:58:08 | |
Now. | 0:58:11 | 0:58:13 | |
Now you can watch. No, lie down. | 0:58:14 | 0:58:17 | |
Pull from there. Now, think. | 0:58:20 | 0:58:23 | |
You see what I'm doing. I'm exercising your quadriceps. | 0:58:26 | 0:58:30 | |
Now do that yourself. | 0:58:31 | 0:58:34 | |
-Lift your leg. Can't you lift it? -If I could, I'd walk out of here. | 0:58:34 | 0:58:40 | |
-Have you finished, doctor? -Yes, I've finished. | 0:58:48 | 0:58:52 | |
-Goodbye, Clarence. -Bye, doc. | 0:58:54 | 0:58:57 | |
-Can I have my splint back? -Nurse, put back his splint. -Yes, doctor. | 0:58:57 | 0:59:02 | |
Well, McDonnell, do you want to experiment on any more patients? | 0:59:04 | 0:59:09 | |
No, I'm no good at it. | 0:59:09 | 0:59:11 | |
But Kenny can do it. | 0:59:11 | 0:59:14 | |
Not in this hospital. | 0:59:14 | 0:59:16 | |
Elizabeth! | 0:59:39 | 0:59:41 | |
-Dr McDonnell. -Your mother said you'd be another month. -I was on my way when the armistice was signed. | 0:59:42 | 0:59:49 | |
-My, you look fine. -So do you. How's Nellie? -Never seen her so happy. | 0:59:49 | 0:59:54 | |
-You have a son. -She's very proud. -And you're not? | 0:59:54 | 0:59:58 | |
Well, he's quite a remarkable child. | 0:59:58 | 1:00:01 | |
-Brack delivered him. -Couldn't you get anybody else? | 1:00:01 | 1:00:05 | |
It was a bit of a hurry. Sit down. | 1:00:05 | 1:00:08 | |
-Congratulations on your promotion. What do I call you now? -Sister Kenny. | 1:00:08 | 1:00:14 | |
-And please respect my military rank. -I will. How's Major Connors? | 1:00:14 | 1:00:18 | |
-He's in hospital in England. It'll be six months before he can walk. -But he'll walk. -Yes. -Good. Fine. | 1:00:18 | 1:00:26 | |
-And now what are you planning to do? -I'm going home to wait for Kevin. | 1:00:26 | 1:00:31 | |
Ah-ha. You're not interested in nursing? | 1:00:31 | 1:00:34 | |
No. | 1:00:34 | 1:00:36 | |
-No more clinics? -No. | 1:00:37 | 1:00:40 | |
-You feel you need a rest, eh? -I certainly do. Mother's all alone now. I'll wait there for Kevin. | 1:00:43 | 1:00:50 | |
-What about polio? -Never heard of it. | 1:00:50 | 1:00:54 | |
-Did you ever here of the Kenny treatment? -Elizabeth Kenny? | 1:00:54 | 1:00:58 | |
She's a dangerous quack. Every doctor in Australia knows that. | 1:00:58 | 1:01:03 | |
-You've lost your faith in her. -Not at all, but let somebody else do it. | 1:01:03 | 1:01:10 | |
The trouble is, they don't know enough about it. | 1:01:10 | 1:01:14 | |
When they try it, it doesn't work. | 1:01:14 | 1:01:17 | |
Then they're stupid. It's perfectly simple. Who's been trying it? | 1:01:17 | 1:01:22 | |
How should I know? | 1:01:22 | 1:01:24 | |
-Well, you just said... -Oh, dear. | 1:01:24 | 1:01:28 | |
I forgot to see that patient in ward three. Would you like the paper? | 1:01:28 | 1:01:33 | |
Aye, you ought to have a fine six months at home. | 1:01:36 | 1:01:41 | |
CHILDREN LAUGHING | 1:02:03 | 1:02:06 | |
-Sister, how soon is tea? -Pretty soon. -I'm hungry. | 1:02:10 | 1:02:15 | |
There we are, Carolyn. | 1:02:15 | 1:02:17 | |
Mm-hm. | 1:02:21 | 1:02:23 | |
Very good. Turn over, on your face. | 1:02:23 | 1:02:26 | |
That's a girl. | 1:02:29 | 1:02:31 | |
Now, we're gong to pull those shoulder blades back. | 1:02:31 | 1:02:35 | |
Pull them back, dear. | 1:02:35 | 1:02:38 | |
Can't you hold that there? We've got to learn to anchor that scapula. | 1:02:41 | 1:02:46 | |
-Try this one. -DOORBELL RINGS | 1:02:46 | 1:02:50 | |
Nurse Warren. | 1:02:51 | 1:02:53 | |
-Give Carolyn her exercises, please. -Yes, sister. | 1:02:53 | 1:02:57 | |
BELL RINGS AGAIN | 1:03:02 | 1:03:05 | |
-Hello, Liz. -Come in, Kevin. | 1:03:08 | 1:03:11 | |
-Would you like to see the children? -No. | 1:03:18 | 1:03:21 | |
-I read your letter and I don't understand. -I tried to be definite. -You certainly were definite. | 1:03:21 | 1:03:28 | |
This seems absurd. I won't accept it. | 1:03:28 | 1:03:31 | |
I have sympathy with your work, but I can't let you throw away every chance of personal happiness. | 1:03:31 | 1:03:38 | |
Let's sit down, darling. | 1:03:38 | 1:03:41 | |
Well? | 1:03:45 | 1:03:47 | |
You may be right. I may be wasting my life. | 1:03:48 | 1:03:52 | |
-But I don't have the right to waste yours too. -Nonsense. -No, it isn't. | 1:03:52 | 1:03:57 | |
Each time I asked you to wait, you never said a word. | 1:03:57 | 1:04:01 | |
You didn't let me realise how unfair it was. I didn't want to. | 1:04:01 | 1:04:06 | |
If I choose to wait, it's my responsibility. | 1:04:06 | 1:04:09 | |
Maybe I'm a fool. All right, I'm a fool. Finish your job here in Townsville. How long will it take? | 1:04:09 | 1:04:16 | |
Well, when do you think you'll be finished? | 1:04:16 | 1:04:20 | |
-I don't think I'll ever be finished. -Let's say two years. | 1:04:20 | 1:04:24 | |
It'll go on. The day that doctors let me treat an acute case I'll be in sight of the end, but that's all. | 1:04:24 | 1:04:31 | |
Face facts. Are you any nearer today than ten years ago? | 1:04:31 | 1:04:36 | |
Yes. A little, I think. | 1:04:37 | 1:04:40 | |
I'm learning a lot about polio. | 1:04:40 | 1:04:43 | |
I'm getting better results with the children. | 1:04:43 | 1:04:46 | |
I rather wanted some children too. | 1:04:46 | 1:04:48 | |
-That's a little unfair. -Maybe, but it's true. | 1:04:51 | 1:04:55 | |
You're wrong, Liz. I know it. | 1:04:55 | 1:04:57 | |
That's my decision. | 1:04:57 | 1:05:00 | |
I won't let you throw yourself away on this any longer. If there was... | 1:05:00 | 1:05:05 | |
DOORBELL RINGS | 1:05:05 | 1:05:08 | |
-Sister Kenny? -Come in, please. | 1:05:13 | 1:05:16 | |
My name's Johnson. I've come from Brisbane. This is Emily. | 1:05:23 | 1:05:28 | |
-Hello, Emily. -Hello, sister. | 1:05:28 | 1:05:31 | |
I've got no money, sister, but if you could take Emily here, | 1:05:31 | 1:05:35 | |
maybe I could work for you, scrubbing or something. | 1:05:35 | 1:05:40 | |
Let's have a look at you, Emily. | 1:05:40 | 1:05:43 | |
How old are you? | 1:05:43 | 1:05:45 | |
Eight, no - eight and a half. | 1:05:45 | 1:05:48 | |
-When did you take sick? -I don't remember. | 1:05:48 | 1:05:51 | |
She was only three. | 1:05:51 | 1:05:54 | |
I can't tell whether I can help you until I examine you, but we'll try. | 1:05:54 | 1:05:59 | |
First we'll take off those braces. | 1:05:59 | 1:06:01 | |
I think you'll have a good time here. There are lots of girls. | 1:06:01 | 1:06:06 | |
Do you hear them? We'll meet them in a minute. | 1:06:06 | 1:06:10 | |
Most of the time we live outside... | 1:06:10 | 1:06:13 | |
DOOR CLOSES | 1:06:13 | 1:06:16 | |
INAUDIBLE | 1:06:29 | 1:06:31 | |
Now we're going to take you out into the sun. | 1:06:45 | 1:06:49 | |
-Have you seen Sister Kenny? -A minute ago. -Did she buy a ticket? -Yes. | 1:07:01 | 1:07:07 | |
Ticket? | 1:07:08 | 1:07:10 | |
-Elizabeth. -What are you doing here? -Did you think you could sneak off to Brisbane without telling me? | 1:07:16 | 1:07:23 | |
-Ten years ago, you'd have sent me there. -You've learnt nothing. You're so stubborn. -Give me the bag. | 1:07:23 | 1:07:30 | |
-In this epidemic, there'll be nothing but the orthodox treatment. -That's why I'm going. | 1:07:30 | 1:07:37 | |
-They'll shut you up in a week. -I just want one acute case. -No chance. | 1:07:37 | 1:07:42 | |
-You'll be in jail. -I'm going. -All right. Let's sit down. There's time. | 1:07:42 | 1:07:47 | |
Look, there's one thing you don't realise. | 1:07:50 | 1:07:53 | |
Big people make little people feel small, and they resent it. | 1:07:53 | 1:07:58 | |
When the big person is a nurse, well, you know as well as I do. | 1:07:58 | 1:08:03 | |
I've heard a lot of complaints about the same thing. You antagonise them. You've said some unkind things. | 1:08:03 | 1:08:10 | |
I've never said anything unkind about doctors. I'd like to see a few of them in their own splints. | 1:08:10 | 1:08:17 | |
Two things, Elizabeth - first, use more tact, more patience... | 1:08:17 | 1:08:21 | |
-I'm never impatient. -And second, | 1:08:21 | 1:08:24 | |
when you run into Brack, don't use those words that aren't in the book. | 1:08:24 | 1:08:29 | |
If you say spasm, he'll have a spasm. | 1:08:29 | 1:08:32 | |
Alienation, re-education - he doesn't know what you mean. | 1:08:32 | 1:08:37 | |
-He won't take the trouble to find out. -It's one of the facts you face. | 1:08:37 | 1:08:41 | |
To him, they aren't scientific terms. | 1:08:41 | 1:08:44 | |
-What can you call spasm, except spasm? -A "muscle condition". | 1:08:44 | 1:08:50 | |
A "muscle condition" but not spasm. WHISTLE BLOWS | 1:08:50 | 1:08:54 | |
-Goodbye, doctor. -Goodbye. Good luck, and no spasm. -No spasm. | 1:09:01 | 1:09:06 | |
I'm sorry, sister. When I let you move in, I didn't know the place was unfit for hospital purposes. | 1:09:42 | 1:09:49 | |
It was not unfit for hospital purposes - not until I put that up. | 1:09:49 | 1:09:54 | |
If there's anything I can do. | 1:09:54 | 1:09:56 | |
Thank you, Mr Todd. | 1:09:56 | 1:09:59 | |
This patient has just finished his quarantine isolation. | 1:10:03 | 1:10:07 | |
At the onset, the familiar symptoms of polio appeared - stiff neck, headache, fever, muscular pain, | 1:10:07 | 1:10:14 | |
followed by the loss of use of arms and legs. | 1:10:14 | 1:10:18 | |
I advised total immobilisation. | 1:10:18 | 1:10:21 | |
Certain muscles are paralysed, due to the destruction of the horn cells of the spinal column. | 1:10:21 | 1:10:28 | |
Strong, normal muscles are pulling against weak, paralysed muscles, producing deformity. | 1:10:28 | 1:10:35 | |
Doctors who have worked in orthopaedic medicine know the tortured position of the victims. | 1:10:35 | 1:10:41 | |
Here you see the application of splints to... | 1:10:41 | 1:10:45 | |
Dr Brack. | 1:10:45 | 1:10:47 | |
On the right arm, | 1:10:50 | 1:10:53 | |
-I've applied the latest... -Dr Brack. | 1:10:53 | 1:10:56 | |
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Miss Elizabeth Kenny, | 1:10:59 | 1:11:03 | |
who has original notions on the pathology and treatment of polio. | 1:11:03 | 1:11:09 | |
-I presume you've come to discuss infantile paralysis. -Yes, Dr Brack. | 1:11:09 | 1:11:14 | |
In order not to waste the time of these busy people, I suggest we postpone the discussion. | 1:11:14 | 1:11:21 | |
-For how many years? -Please call at my office. | 1:11:21 | 1:11:25 | |
-I already have. -Did you have an appointment? -Your secretary refused to give me one. | 1:11:25 | 1:11:31 | |
I'm sure it can be arranged. There is an epidemic. I was probably busy. | 1:11:31 | 1:11:36 | |
The last time I was there, you were having tea. | 1:11:36 | 1:11:40 | |
I hope that this class will not be further disturbed. Where was I? | 1:11:40 | 1:11:45 | |
-Oh, yes. The splint I applied... -Dr Brack. | 1:11:45 | 1:11:49 | |
I don't like this any more than you do. | 1:11:49 | 1:11:52 | |
But I must have an answer, a public one if possible, to this question. | 1:11:52 | 1:11:58 | |
Why do you prevent me from doing my work? | 1:11:58 | 1:12:01 | |
-I do not prevent you, it's the authorities. -At your request. | 1:12:01 | 1:12:06 | |
Isn't that rather rude? | 1:12:06 | 1:12:09 | |
Do you know how to put it politely? | 1:12:09 | 1:12:12 | |
Ladies and gentlemen, perhaps we can make use of this interruption. | 1:12:12 | 1:12:17 | |
As men of science, we do not reject ideas without examination. | 1:12:17 | 1:12:22 | |
Miss Kenny's ideas were familiar to me 20 years ago. | 1:12:22 | 1:12:26 | |
I permitted a general practitioner, a Dr McDonnell, | 1:12:26 | 1:12:30 | |
to test them - with very sad results. | 1:12:30 | 1:12:34 | |
Nobody who reads the newspapers, in which Miss Kenny appears frequently, | 1:12:36 | 1:12:41 | |
can be unaware of her, but they may be unfamiliar with her ideas. | 1:12:41 | 1:12:46 | |
How many of you here know anything of the so-called Kenny treatment? | 1:12:46 | 1:12:52 | |
Miss Kenny, would you tell us how ignorant I am, and how dangerous the orthodox treatment is? | 1:12:55 | 1:13:03 | |
I would, but I don't think you're ignorant, only pig-headed. | 1:13:04 | 1:13:09 | |
LAUGHTER | 1:13:09 | 1:13:11 | |
Come down here, please. | 1:13:11 | 1:13:14 | |
Come over here. | 1:13:18 | 1:13:21 | |
Speak freely. | 1:13:21 | 1:13:23 | |
Explain your theory. | 1:13:23 | 1:13:25 | |
Well... | 1:13:27 | 1:13:28 | |
-the fundamental difference between us is which muscle is sick. -Go on. | 1:13:28 | 1:13:33 | |
Dr Brack, I didn't expect to find you so tolerant. | 1:13:33 | 1:13:37 | |
-This is the first time in 20 years I've been given a hearing before orthopaedic men. -Yes, go on. | 1:13:37 | 1:13:45 | |
Well, Dr Brack considers that one muscle is paralysed and the opposing muscle is healthy. | 1:13:45 | 1:13:52 | |
I say the opposing muscle is sick in sp... Call it a muscle condition. | 1:13:52 | 1:13:58 | |
When you first find such a muscle condition, you apply moist heat, | 1:13:58 | 1:14:03 | |
and reduce the sp... muscle condition, | 1:14:03 | 1:14:06 | |
keeping the muscles relaxed. | 1:14:06 | 1:14:09 | |
If you put them in splints, you make the muscle condition worse. | 1:14:09 | 1:14:13 | |
That's fine if your concept were correct. | 1:14:13 | 1:14:17 | |
-Come to the convalescent stage. -After the spasm... -Spasm? | 1:14:17 | 1:14:22 | |
Yes, spasm. After the spasm is relieved, the muscles look normal. | 1:14:22 | 1:14:28 | |
-But they are not. They are alienated and need re-education. -There's no such thing as spasm. | 1:14:28 | 1:14:35 | |
Re-education, alienation - you find that word in the divorce court. These aren't scientific terms. | 1:14:35 | 1:14:42 | |
-You invented them. -Yes, for a new concept. New ideas need new words. | 1:14:42 | 1:14:47 | |
-They describe the things I see. -Why don't we see them? -Because you've got a book in front of your eyes. | 1:14:47 | 1:14:54 | |
You shouldn't care about words. | 1:14:54 | 1:14:56 | |
-Without strict use of words, there could be no science. Your terms have no meaning. -They have for me. | 1:14:56 | 1:15:03 | |
I call it spasm. I treat spasm. | 1:15:03 | 1:15:06 | |
You get cures, isn't that right? | 1:15:06 | 1:15:09 | |
You all try to catch me with that. I don't claim to have a cure. | 1:15:09 | 1:15:14 | |
But I get improvements, even with your failures. | 1:15:14 | 1:15:17 | |
I can't show what I could do if I started in the acute stage. | 1:15:17 | 1:15:22 | |
20 years ago in the bush, I had that chance. Six acute cases all recovered. | 1:15:22 | 1:15:29 | |
But I hear the same thing whenever a patient improves - "He didn't have polio." | 1:15:29 | 1:15:35 | |
-Finished? -Not until you stop doing that! -We won't stop immobilisation. Patients must be encased in plaster. | 1:15:35 | 1:15:42 | |
To me that's terrifying. | 1:15:42 | 1:15:45 | |
-I have patients whose bodies are straight as a result. -And rigid. | 1:15:45 | 1:15:50 | |
Those in the graveyard have as much chance of using their legs. | 1:15:50 | 1:15:55 | |
-Miss Kenny, there's a patient here! -I've tried to speak to you elsewhere. He has a right to hear. | 1:15:55 | 1:16:02 | |
-You're making a serious mistake. -I've made lots of mistakes, doctor. | 1:16:02 | 1:16:06 | |
Are any of us infallible? | 1:16:06 | 1:16:09 | |
Your fathers bled their patients for everything. Do you do it now? | 1:16:09 | 1:16:14 | |
-Pasteur changed a few ideas. -You compare yourself to Pasteur?! | 1:16:14 | 1:16:19 | |
Certainly not, but I wish he were here. | 1:16:19 | 1:16:23 | |
-So do I, Miss Kenny. He had a cure for hydrophobia. -LAUGHTER | 1:16:23 | 1:16:29 | |
That laughter is only tolerable because I know you're sincere. | 1:16:33 | 1:16:39 | |
But sincerity doesn't excuse a shut mind or subjecting thousands of children to cruelty. | 1:16:39 | 1:16:46 | |
Luckily, these children are not in the hands of emotional quacks. | 1:16:46 | 1:16:51 | |
While we have authority, we won't let you tamper with their lives. | 1:16:51 | 1:16:57 | |
It's a dangerous thing to traffic in human affliction. | 1:16:57 | 1:17:01 | |
You can stop me treating an acute case, but not the hopeless ones, the ones you've given up. | 1:17:01 | 1:17:09 | |
If you need any more instruments of torture, I can send them to you - | 1:17:09 | 1:17:14 | |
I've taken plenty off your patients. | 1:17:14 | 1:17:17 | |
Miss Kenny... | 1:17:17 | 1:17:20 | |
Don't consider this matter settled. | 1:17:24 | 1:17:27 | |
To become a nurse, you took an oath. Do you remember the last paragraph? | 1:17:27 | 1:17:32 | |
"With loyalty will I endeavour to aid the physician in his work." | 1:17:32 | 1:17:37 | |
Instead of aiding physicians, you try to teach them their profession. | 1:17:37 | 1:17:42 | |
In the opinion of many doctors, you are no longer a nurse. | 1:17:42 | 1:17:46 | |
You can't dispose of me that way, Dr Brack. | 1:17:46 | 1:17:50 | |
I've given up too much for the right to wear a nurse's uniform. | 1:17:50 | 1:17:55 | |
HEATED MURMURING | 1:17:55 | 1:17:58 | |
-Sister Kenny! -> | 1:18:05 | 1:18:08 | |
-I'm Tutor, of the Queensland Health Department. -Were you in there? -Yes. | 1:18:11 | 1:18:16 | |
Just a moment, Sister Kenny. | 1:18:16 | 1:18:19 | |
-I'm not against your work. -Who said my clinic was unfit for sick children? -Not my department. | 1:18:19 | 1:18:26 | |
-Will you come to my office tonight? -What for? -We have a lot to discuss. | 1:18:26 | 1:18:31 | |
-You say that happened in 1914? -July 1914. | 1:18:31 | 1:18:36 | |
And then your work was suspended because of the war. | 1:18:36 | 1:18:40 | |
That's right. | 1:18:40 | 1:18:43 | |
-Did you keep a record of the cases you treated? -Not as well as I should. What is this all about? | 1:18:43 | 1:18:50 | |
I'll explain as soon as I get this record straight. | 1:18:50 | 1:18:54 | |
-Good evening. Am I late? -Not at all. Sister Kenny, this is Dr Gideon. | 1:18:54 | 1:18:59 | |
-How do you do? -I've wanted to meet you for a long time. | 1:18:59 | 1:19:03 | |
-So you're not an orthopaedic man. -I'm afraid I am. | 1:19:03 | 1:19:07 | |
-I saw the result of your treatment on a girl named Johnson. -Oh? | 1:19:07 | 1:19:12 | |
She's walking remarkably well. | 1:19:12 | 1:19:15 | |
If there's anything wrong with the orthodox treatment, I want to know. | 1:19:15 | 1:19:20 | |
-You're sure you're an orthopaedic man?! -Yes! | 1:19:20 | 1:19:24 | |
-Hello. Well...Elizabeth. -What brought you here? | 1:19:24 | 1:19:29 | |
Spasm. | 1:19:29 | 1:19:31 | |
You made a mess of my treatment in front of Dr Brack. | 1:19:31 | 1:19:36 | |
-I... -Dr McDonnell... -Who told you about that? -Muscle condition. | 1:19:36 | 1:19:41 | |
You won't scold when you read this. It's from the London County Council. | 1:19:41 | 1:19:47 | |
They want you in England. That's the most encouraging thing to happen in 20 years. | 1:19:47 | 1:19:54 | |
It doesn't say I can treat an acute case. | 1:19:54 | 1:19:57 | |
-It's the only way I'll ever prove anything. -Finish the letter. | 1:19:57 | 1:20:01 | |
-She must go to England. -What of our plan to get her a royal commission? | 1:20:01 | 1:20:07 | |
-Go ahead with it. -But she mustn't leave Australia. | 1:20:07 | 1:20:12 | |
If the best doctors investigate her treatment, the fight is won. | 1:20:12 | 1:20:17 | |
She can't sit around while they stop her work at every turn. | 1:20:17 | 1:20:22 | |
The only thing slower than a royal commission is full payment. | 1:20:22 | 1:20:26 | |
-She can't go to England. -She can. We'll learn from them in England. | 1:20:26 | 1:20:31 | |
-She should be here when we get that royal commission. -Patience. | 1:20:31 | 1:20:38 | |
-She belongs in Australia. -She belongs where she'll get recognition the quickest. | 1:20:38 | 1:20:45 | |
-Let her make ten crippled children in England walk... -Then what? | 1:20:45 | 1:20:49 | |
-Royal commission - I don't know where I am. -If you just... | 1:20:49 | 1:20:54 | |
When I was going to get married, you told me if I made ten children walk | 1:20:54 | 1:21:00 | |
my treatment would be adopted all over the world! | 1:21:00 | 1:21:05 | |
I've made 100 children walk and in 20 years one physician has shown an interest! | 1:21:05 | 1:21:11 | |
I'm sorry, but these are the facts. | 1:21:11 | 1:21:14 | |
I can't flatter myself that I persuaded you into this work. | 1:21:14 | 1:21:19 | |
It was the children. | 1:21:19 | 1:21:22 | |
I can talk to the plain doctors, but the Dr Bracks, the specialists, | 1:21:22 | 1:21:27 | |
the men who alone could open the door to my work, | 1:21:27 | 1:21:31 | |
they live in a fortress. | 1:21:31 | 1:21:35 | |
I'm only a nurse. I'm outside the walls of Jericho. | 1:21:35 | 1:21:39 | |
They're strong walls - you don't know how strong and how high. | 1:21:39 | 1:21:44 | |
Inside the walls, they can't hear the crying of children. | 1:21:44 | 1:21:49 | |
< CLAMOUR OF VOICES OUTSIDE | 1:21:53 | 1:21:58 | |
Sister Kenny. | 1:22:00 | 1:22:03 | |
CHEERING AND CLAPPING | 1:22:11 | 1:22:15 | |
VOICES SHOUT OUT FOR SISTER KENNY | 1:22:17 | 1:22:21 | |
Elizabeth...a minute ago, you were talking about the walls of Jericho. | 1:22:23 | 1:22:29 | |
Do you remember what happened to them? | 1:22:29 | 1:22:33 | |
Some people shouted and blew trumpets, didn't they? | 1:22:33 | 1:22:38 | |
Some people - yes. | 1:22:38 | 1:22:41 | |
And the walls came tumbling down. | 1:22:41 | 1:22:44 | |
-I'm booked on flight 70. -Half an hour's delay, ma'am, due to fog. | 1:23:08 | 1:23:13 | |
-Oh, then I'll get a cup of tea. -Right-ho, this way, please. | 1:23:13 | 1:23:18 | |
Kevin! | 1:23:43 | 1:23:45 | |
Well! | 1:23:45 | 1:23:46 | |
-Well, I've finally found you. -I phoned your... | 1:23:46 | 1:23:51 | |
-I phoned your office a dozen times. -Got back an hour ago. Just missed you in Paris and Berlin. | 1:23:51 | 1:23:57 | |
-But I was determined to catch you in London. -Bless the fog! | 1:23:57 | 1:24:01 | |
Can't you miss this plane and get one tomorrow? Let's go to London. | 1:24:01 | 1:24:07 | |
I'd love to, but I've got to be in Sydney on the fifth. | 1:24:07 | 1:24:12 | |
There's a plane waiting for me in Alexandria. Could I get there on time if I went in the morning? | 1:24:12 | 1:24:19 | |
-No. -Oh, well, we'll take what time there is. | 1:24:19 | 1:24:23 | |
-Another order of tea, please. -Yes, Sister Kenny. | 1:24:23 | 1:24:27 | |
-You're famous! -Everyone likes me except the doctors. | 1:24:27 | 1:24:31 | |
I read that you were doing a lot of work here. Why are you in such a hurry to get back to Australia? | 1:24:31 | 1:24:38 | |
The government has sent for me. There's another bad outbreak of polio. | 1:24:38 | 1:24:45 | |
-I haven't seen anything about this in the papers. -The Munich business has crowded it out. | 1:24:45 | 1:24:52 | |
"The people want Kenny clinics." So you've done it. | 1:24:52 | 1:24:56 | |
No, but I can see a wee crack in the walls of Jericho. | 1:24:56 | 1:25:01 | |
-Dr McDonnell? -Yes. | 1:25:01 | 1:25:04 | |
He realised that my real hope was in the people. | 1:25:04 | 1:25:08 | |
-Do you remember when he told me to take their failures? -I certainly do. | 1:25:08 | 1:25:13 | |
For 20 years I didn't think I was getting anywhere. | 1:25:13 | 1:25:17 | |
But the parents and friends of the children were forming an army. | 1:25:17 | 1:25:23 | |
They didn't know it, I didn't know it, the Dr Bracks didn't know it. | 1:25:23 | 1:25:28 | |
But we know it now, and it's a powerful army. | 1:25:28 | 1:25:32 | |
You're a great woman, Liz. | 1:25:34 | 1:25:37 | |
I've had great friends. | 1:25:37 | 1:25:41 | |
-How's your mother? -Not too well. | 1:25:45 | 1:25:48 | |
Oh! Did you know I'm a struggling author? | 1:25:50 | 1:25:54 | |
Oh? "The Kenny Concept Of Infantile Paralysis." That's wonderful, Liz. | 1:25:54 | 1:25:59 | |
-Just off the press. -May I have it? -Of course you may. | 1:25:59 | 1:26:04 | |
Liz, you know it's taken me many years to understand what you tried to tell me in Townsville. | 1:26:04 | 1:26:11 | |
Well, it wasn't easy for either of us. | 1:26:13 | 1:26:17 | |
-I wanted ten children - you have thousands. -I still miss the ten. | 1:26:17 | 1:26:23 | |
So do I. | 1:26:23 | 1:26:25 | |
But when they laughed, you heard the crying of crippled children. | 1:26:25 | 1:26:29 | |
That's what you knew, wasn't it? | 1:26:29 | 1:26:33 | |
Yes, Kevin. | 1:26:33 | 1:26:36 | |
I'm glad it turned out this way. | 1:26:39 | 1:26:42 | |
That's what I've always hoped for - | 1:26:42 | 1:26:45 | |
to hear you say it. | 1:26:45 | 1:26:48 | |
TANNOY: 'Check in, please, flight 70. Paris, Rome, Alexandria. | 1:26:48 | 1:26:53 | |
'Passengers, please go to gate three.' | 1:26:53 | 1:26:57 | |
-Would you like this to read on the plane? -Oh, thank you. | 1:26:57 | 1:27:02 | |
"Peace in our time, says Chamberlain." | 1:27:02 | 1:27:06 | |
-Do you believe it, Kevin? -Well, it gives us time to get ready. | 1:27:06 | 1:27:11 | |
BAND PLAYS: "Waltzing Matilda" | 1:27:19 | 1:27:23 | |
-Well, what do you think of it? -It's incredible. If she sees this, she'll certainly go to America. | 1:27:37 | 1:27:44 | |
That's what I'm afraid of. | 1:27:44 | 1:27:46 | |
The commission's left things just where they were ten years ago, | 1:27:46 | 1:27:51 | |
even though all the younger orthopaedic men are already using the Kenny treatment. | 1:27:51 | 1:27:59 | |
Royal commission - | 1:27:59 | 1:28:01 | |
she does great work in Europe, she slaves through an epidemic here and they throw that in her face. | 1:28:01 | 1:28:09 | |
Well, I'd hate to be the one to tell her. | 1:28:09 | 1:28:13 | |
Mr Tutor, I have Dr McDonnell on the telephone, on the private line. | 1:28:13 | 1:28:18 | |
Hello, Dr McDonnell. | 1:28:18 | 1:28:21 | |
Hello, Tutor? | 1:28:21 | 1:28:24 | |
Oh, so they finally got it down on paper, did they? | 1:28:24 | 1:28:28 | |
Mm. | 1:28:28 | 1:28:30 | |
Yes, I'm still here. | 1:28:36 | 1:28:39 | |
Oh, of course it can't stop the work, but... | 1:28:39 | 1:28:43 | |
she's not getting any younger. | 1:28:43 | 1:28:47 | |
The plain fact is she's got to take it easy. | 1:28:47 | 1:28:51 | |
Of course it's serious - at her age it always is. | 1:28:52 | 1:28:56 | |
Yes, I'll tell her. | 1:28:57 | 1:29:00 | |
Oh, you can take these now, Alan. | 1:29:28 | 1:29:32 | |
Yes, Sister. | 1:29:32 | 1:29:34 | |
-Hello, Dr McDonnell. -Alan. | 1:29:41 | 1:29:44 | |
-Well, doctor. -Hello, Elizabeth. | 1:29:47 | 1:29:50 | |
-I didn't hear your car. -Rationing means I'm back to being a horse and buggy doctor. | 1:29:50 | 1:29:56 | |
-How did you get here so early? -I left yesterday. | 1:29:56 | 1:30:00 | |
-Sit down. Would you like a cup of tea? -No, thank you. | 1:30:00 | 1:30:05 | |
I'll be ready in just a moment. | 1:30:05 | 1:30:08 | |
-Anything here you want? -They're probably books I gave you myself. | 1:30:08 | 1:30:13 | |
Something wrong? | 1:30:13 | 1:30:16 | |
You're really closing the place up, aren't you? | 1:30:16 | 1:30:20 | |
I don't know how long I'll be in America. | 1:30:20 | 1:30:25 | |
I had a call from Tutor. | 1:30:26 | 1:30:29 | |
Oh? | 1:30:29 | 1:30:31 | |
The royal commission report is 130 pages of undiluted condemnation of your work and ideas. | 1:30:31 | 1:30:38 | |
They say that on no account should you attend a case of infantile paralysis, | 1:30:40 | 1:30:46 | |
either recent or of long standing. | 1:30:46 | 1:30:50 | |
They condemn the government for spending money on the Kenny clinics | 1:30:50 | 1:30:55 | |
instead of giving support to the orthodox method. | 1:30:55 | 1:30:59 | |
They recommend that the Kenny clinics be closed. | 1:31:01 | 1:31:06 | |
Well, that really stops me. | 1:31:08 | 1:31:12 | |
The people won't stand for it. | 1:31:12 | 1:31:15 | |
What can the people do against organised authority? | 1:31:15 | 1:31:19 | |
Well, they got you the clinics in the first place. | 1:31:19 | 1:31:23 | |
Of course, this report won't do you any good in America. | 1:31:23 | 1:31:28 | |
Maybe you should reconsider. | 1:31:28 | 1:31:31 | |
Do you think you really have to go? | 1:31:31 | 1:31:35 | |
I don't think it, I know it. | 1:31:35 | 1:31:39 | |
Come along, doctor. | 1:31:48 | 1:31:51 | |
"Sister Kenny - unscientific". Rubbish! They haven't read my book. | 1:32:07 | 1:32:12 | |
I've read those reviews. Besides, you shouldn't be bothered by petty minds. | 1:32:12 | 1:32:19 | |
"Sister Kenny's book has new parts, but the new is not always good." Sir Charles Brack. | 1:32:19 | 1:32:26 | |
Would you put those reviews away! | 1:32:26 | 1:32:29 | |
Listen to this. | 1:32:33 | 1:32:35 | |
"The abandonment of immobilisation and splinting is a complete denial of long-established principles." | 1:32:35 | 1:32:42 | |
The British Medical Journal. | 1:32:42 | 1:32:45 | |
-You haven't much time before your train leaves. -Sorry. | 1:32:45 | 1:32:49 | |
It took me six years to write that book. | 1:32:50 | 1:32:53 | |
30 years' work to prepare to write it and they dismiss it in 36 words. | 1:32:53 | 1:32:58 | |
-Do you want me to listen to your heart? -Oh, go ahead, go ahead. | 1:32:58 | 1:33:03 | |
Put the plugs in your ears! | 1:33:07 | 1:33:10 | |
Well, you confused me - talk, talk, talk. | 1:33:10 | 1:33:14 | |
-You doctors...! -Sssh! | 1:33:14 | 1:33:17 | |
-There's nothing... -Quiet! | 1:33:17 | 1:33:19 | |
Don't pull that face. It's no worse than for the last ten years. | 1:33:26 | 1:33:30 | |
Listen to it yourself. | 1:33:30 | 1:33:33 | |
You see what I tell you? Whistle-bang, whistle-bang... | 1:33:33 | 1:33:38 | |
Quiet! | 1:33:38 | 1:33:40 | |
Well? | 1:33:46 | 1:33:48 | |
It's not very good, is it? | 1:34:00 | 1:34:02 | |
It'll last till I do what I've got to do. | 1:34:02 | 1:34:06 | |
-Not if you don't take it easy. -You take it easy! -I do. -Liar. -You're a cantankerous woman. | 1:34:06 | 1:34:12 | |
You've always been a trial to me. I like things easy. | 1:34:12 | 1:34:17 | |
-How many beds have you got in this hospital? -200. | 1:34:17 | 1:34:21 | |
I remember when you only had 20. | 1:34:21 | 1:34:24 | |
Your father gave us two. | 1:34:24 | 1:34:27 | |
Mother managed that. What about the others? | 1:34:27 | 1:34:32 | |
Oh, Nellie was good at persuading. Kevin Connors gave us ten. | 1:34:32 | 1:34:37 | |
You didn't know that, did you? | 1:34:39 | 1:34:43 | |
I saw Dorrie McIntyre the other day. Do you remember her? She was your first case. | 1:34:46 | 1:34:53 | |
Her eldest daughter's training here as a nurse. Her name's Elizabeth. | 1:34:53 | 1:34:59 | |
She's a fine girl. | 1:34:59 | 1:35:02 | |
You're a famous woman, Elizabeth. | 1:35:11 | 1:35:14 | |
I imagine I'm the only one left who knows what it's cost you. | 1:35:14 | 1:35:20 | |
And I'd like to take this opportunity to say quite formally, | 1:35:20 | 1:35:24 | |
it's a privilege to have known you. | 1:35:24 | 1:35:28 | |
Thank you. | 1:35:29 | 1:35:31 | |
Whatever you do, whatever happens, | 1:35:32 | 1:35:36 | |
remember that the people are more important than the system. | 1:35:36 | 1:35:41 | |
That's true in government - they're fighting a war to prove it. | 1:35:41 | 1:35:46 | |
And it's true in medicine. | 1:35:46 | 1:35:50 | |
You've got that fight left, Elizabeth. | 1:35:50 | 1:35:54 | |
It's a big fight. It won't be easy. | 1:35:54 | 1:35:57 | |
I wish I could help you. | 1:35:57 | 1:36:01 | |
But you'll be a long way off, and... | 1:36:01 | 1:36:04 | |
..I'm getting old. | 1:36:07 | 1:36:10 | |
Well, I'm no chicken. | 1:36:12 | 1:36:15 | |
Do you know what time it is? They're waiting for you on ward seven. Don't forget your glasses. | 1:36:15 | 1:36:22 | |
Don't tell me what I need. Go on! I'll need a new head, nurse. | 1:36:22 | 1:36:27 | |
It would have been nice to have a long talk about all the people we used to know. | 1:36:27 | 1:36:34 | |
Oh well, there'll be time for that when you get back from America. | 1:36:34 | 1:36:40 | |
Sister Kenny! This way, please. Hold it, please. | 1:36:49 | 1:36:54 | |
This way, Kenny. | 1:36:54 | 1:36:57 | |
Thanks, honey. | 1:36:57 | 1:37:00 | |
-One more, please. -Is this your first visit to America? -Yes. | 1:37:00 | 1:37:04 | |
-What do you think of San Franciso? -It's too big for its bridges. | 1:37:04 | 1:37:08 | |
-Sister, are you a nun? -Oh, no. -So how come they call you Sister? | 1:37:08 | 1:37:13 | |
That's what they call an army nurse in Australia. | 1:37:13 | 1:37:17 | |
-Did the commission report hurt? -Not as much as it hurt the children. | 1:37:17 | 1:37:22 | |
-Give us the lowdown on doctors. -They say you've been rough on them. | 1:37:22 | 1:37:27 | |
-Are you here to show up the doctors? -I'm here for the children. | 1:37:27 | 1:37:31 | |
-We know what you think of doctors. -Give us your honest opinion. | 1:37:31 | 1:37:36 | |
Very well, it's easier to criticise a doctor than to be one. | 1:37:36 | 1:37:40 | |
Go along, boys. | 1:37:40 | 1:37:43 | |
Yes, it's the same old story. | 1:37:45 | 1:37:49 | |
From San Francisco to New York, I've been given "the runaround". | 1:37:49 | 1:37:54 | |
Oh, I hadn't heard that one - "the brush off". | 1:37:54 | 1:37:59 | |
The Dr Bracks seem as strong here as they are in Australia. | 1:37:59 | 1:38:04 | |
I had high hopes when I came here, but since Pearl Harbour I realise I've been wasting my time. | 1:38:05 | 1:38:12 | |
When do I sail? | 1:38:12 | 1:38:14 | |
Tell the consul I'm very grateful. | 1:38:14 | 1:38:17 | |
-Yes, I'll talk to him. Put him on. -KNOCK AT THE DOOR -Come in. | 1:38:17 | 1:38:22 | |
-Sister Kenny? -Yes. -I'm from the New York Globe. -Sit down. | 1:38:25 | 1:38:30 | |
Not on my luggage! | 1:38:30 | 1:38:33 | |
I have nothing to say except that I'm going back to Australia. | 1:38:33 | 1:38:37 | |
-Well, that's news, but... -I've waited two years... Yes. | 1:38:37 | 1:38:41 | |
How do you do. No, I'm afraid I can't reconsider. | 1:38:41 | 1:38:46 | |
The only place to show interest is the University of Minnesota. | 1:38:46 | 1:38:50 | |
Stop poking me! No, I didn't mean you. | 1:38:50 | 1:38:54 | |
I can't wait any longer for their report. I'm afraid it'll drag on. | 1:38:54 | 1:38:59 | |
And frankly, I haven't any money left. | 1:38:59 | 1:39:03 | |
Thank you. | 1:39:03 | 1:39:05 | |
-Sister... -You heard what I said. I'm going back to Australia. | 1:39:05 | 1:39:09 | |
-Bet you don't. -Why are you here? -I thought you'd like to read this. | 1:39:09 | 1:39:14 | |
-Who's calling me a quack this time? -Read it. -No. -I'll read it, then. | 1:39:14 | 1:39:19 | |
Quote. "We have no hesitation in saying the Kenny method will form the basis for all future treatment." | 1:39:19 | 1:39:27 | |
Quote. "Absolutely no deformities have materialised. | 1:39:27 | 1:39:32 | |
"55% recoveries were registered in 32 days." End quote. | 1:39:32 | 1:39:36 | |
-They're talking about acute cases. -It's from Minnesota University. | 1:39:36 | 1:39:41 | |
Minneapolis has been hit by a bad epidemic of infantile paralysis. | 1:39:41 | 1:39:47 | |
The people want you to go over there and set up a clinic. | 1:39:47 | 1:39:51 | |
The board of public welfare and the mayor want you. So are you going? | 1:39:51 | 1:39:56 | |
-Young man, have you ever been kissed by a woman my age? -Huh? | 1:39:56 | 1:40:01 | |
Never mind. Pick up those bags. | 1:40:01 | 1:40:04 | |
Sister, where's your manners? | 1:40:04 | 1:40:08 | |
Please. | 1:40:09 | 1:40:11 | |
Come on, Sister, you've seen doctors before. | 1:40:18 | 1:40:23 | |
-Not to hear me speak. Where were we? -You haven't dictated a word yet. | 1:40:25 | 1:40:30 | |
-"Dear Dr McDonnell..." -Do you think you'll have time? | 1:40:30 | 1:40:34 | |
Yes, they're going through the wards first. Where was I? | 1:40:34 | 1:40:38 | |
-"Dear Dr McDonnell..." -"At the end of this letter, | 1:40:38 | 1:40:43 | |
"I hope to add the greatest piece of news I've heard in 35 years. | 1:40:43 | 1:40:47 | |
"The report of the national committee investigating my work for 16 months in the United States. | 1:40:47 | 1:40:54 | |
"That committee is composed of outstanding orthopaedic men. | 1:40:54 | 1:40:59 | |
"Yes, the walls of Jericho are really tumbling down. | 1:40:59 | 1:41:03 | |
"I have every reason to believe that it will not be another fiasco like the royal commission. | 1:41:04 | 1:41:11 | |
"If it is unfavourable, I shall have a spasm." Spasm. | 1:41:11 | 1:41:15 | |
"But more of this later. Today is the climax of my three years' work in Minneapolis. | 1:41:15 | 1:41:22 | |
"You won't believe a word of this, but it's true. | 1:41:22 | 1:41:26 | |
"This morning I am lecturing to orthopaedic surgeons. Cross my heart. | 1:41:26 | 1:41:32 | |
"My first lecture. The first course of study at the new institute. | 1:41:32 | 1:41:38 | |
"Also, it is my birthday. And don't go round telling people how old I am. I don't like it. | 1:41:38 | 1:41:45 | |
"Oh. Another thing. The new book is just out. Even Brack will have to read..." | 1:41:45 | 1:41:51 | |
-Brack? -B-R-A-C-K, Brack. | 1:41:51 | 1:41:53 | |
"..it was written in collaboration with an orthopaedic man, | 1:41:53 | 1:41:57 | |
"the medical director of the Kenny Institute." | 1:41:57 | 1:42:01 | |
"I am sending you a copy with this letter." | 1:42:01 | 1:42:04 | |
-Yes. -A cablegram, Sister. -Thank you. | 1:42:04 | 1:42:06 | |
"I long to see Australia. But since I cannot get away, you will have to come to America next year, | 1:42:06 | 1:42:13 | |
"and see a hep cat bush nurse. You won't know what that means. | 1:42:13 | 1:42:18 | |
"It's an honorary degree. | 1:42:18 | 1:42:21 | |
"Incidentally, I have three real honorary degrees. | 1:42:21 | 1:42:25 | |
"I don't know why I am writing in such a familiar way to a mere MD." | 1:42:25 | 1:42:30 | |
Is that all? | 1:42:35 | 1:42:38 | |
Is that the end, Sister? | 1:42:40 | 1:42:42 | |
Yes. | 1:42:45 | 1:42:47 | |
But, you were going to add something about the report, when it comes out. | 1:42:47 | 1:42:52 | |
Shall I type up what I have? | 1:42:59 | 1:43:01 | |
No. Never mind. | 1:43:03 | 1:43:06 | |
-The doctors are waiting for you, Sister. -Thank you. | 1:43:12 | 1:43:17 | |
LOUD APPLAUSE | 1:43:31 | 1:43:34 | |
Thank you, doctors. | 1:43:44 | 1:43:47 | |
Thank you very much. | 1:43:47 | 1:43:49 | |
I am not in the habit of being greeted so warmly by doctors. | 1:43:49 | 1:43:54 | |
LAUGHTER | 1:43:54 | 1:43:56 | |
Your laughter reminds me of an occasion many years ago | 1:43:56 | 1:44:01 | |
when I was greeted by laughter of another sort. | 1:44:01 | 1:44:04 | |
It was because I used four words you are going to hear often in this course. | 1:44:04 | 1:44:10 | |
Spasm, alienation, incoordination and re-education. | 1:44:10 | 1:44:15 | |
Before demonstrating their application, the medical director has asked to speak. | 1:44:15 | 1:44:21 | |
I have Sister Kenny's permission to speak, but not to say this. | 1:44:23 | 1:44:28 | |
When she lays me out afterwards... | 1:44:28 | 1:44:31 | |
LAUGHTER ..I'm going to tell her she opened the door by mentioning re-education. | 1:44:31 | 1:44:36 | |
Gentlemen, that's what you're here for - re-education. | 1:44:36 | 1:44:40 | |
Like myself, you went to medical school, worked hard, | 1:44:40 | 1:44:44 | |
again, like myself, you went into a difficult branch and more study. | 1:44:44 | 1:44:49 | |
You piled up experience and today you feel fully qualified. | 1:44:49 | 1:44:53 | |
Hard as it is to learn, it is even more difficult to unlearn. | 1:44:53 | 1:44:58 | |
As an American humourist said many years ago, | 1:44:58 | 1:45:01 | |
"It ain't the things we don't know that causes the trouble, it's the things we do know that ain't so." | 1:45:01 | 1:45:08 | |
I'm aware that not all of you are convinced, | 1:45:08 | 1:45:12 | |
but the fact you are here from all over shows you are open-minded. | 1:45:12 | 1:45:17 | |
In my opinion, had Miss Kenny been a doctor, this controversy would not have gone on for 35 years. | 1:45:17 | 1:45:24 | |
I'm equally sure - and I say this at some risk... | 1:45:24 | 1:45:28 | |
LAUGHTER | 1:45:28 | 1:45:30 | |
..that if Sister Kenny had used more sugar and less vinegar, the salad would have gone down better. | 1:45:30 | 1:45:37 | |
But you can't fight 35 years without the use of vinegar. | 1:45:37 | 1:45:41 | |
But these petty things should be swept aside. | 1:45:41 | 1:45:44 | |
We are concerned about the lives of children, not our feelings. | 1:45:44 | 1:45:49 | |
As physicians, we want to find the best treatment for this disease | 1:45:49 | 1:45:53 | |
that afflicted 19,000 children last year in the USA alone. | 1:45:53 | 1:45:57 | |
APPLAUSE | 1:45:57 | 1:46:00 | |
Thank you, doctor. | 1:46:04 | 1:46:06 | |
Now, Tommy. | 1:46:06 | 1:46:08 | |
You see here a typical case in the convalescent stage. | 1:46:08 | 1:46:12 | |
The acute stage has passed, pain has gone, but difficulties begin. | 1:46:12 | 1:46:17 | |
We have apparent or functional paralysis, what I call alienation. | 1:46:17 | 1:46:23 | |
INAUDIBLE | 1:46:23 | 1:46:25 | |
I have been told that the report of the national committee is on the radio. They're putting it on. | 1:46:27 | 1:46:35 | |
RADIO: And in conclusion, the five specialists who compose the committee report that | 1:46:35 | 1:46:41 | |
they find no evidence that the Kenny treatment prevents or decreases the amount of paralysis. | 1:46:41 | 1:46:48 | |
I quote: "We criticise the statements of Miss Kenny, that patients who have come to her, | 1:46:48 | 1:46:55 | |
"that had this case come to her early, the disability would have been prevented. | 1:46:55 | 1:47:01 | |
"This is not founded on fact." | 1:47:01 | 1:47:03 | |
The entire report of the committee is a severe criticism of Sister Kenny and her supporters. | 1:47:03 | 1:47:10 | |
With respect to her claims for recoveries, she is accused of: | 1:47:10 | 1:47:14 | |
"deliberate misrepresentation of the facts of treatment by other methods". | 1:47:14 | 1:47:19 | |
MURMURING | 1:47:19 | 1:47:22 | |
I don't know what evidence the committee considered, but we who are using the treatment | 1:47:24 | 1:47:30 | |
know enough to know that crooked limbs and twisted bodies are not a necessary consequence of the disease. | 1:47:30 | 1:47:38 | |
These tragedies do not occur in cases treated here. | 1:47:38 | 1:47:42 | |
As medical director of the Kenny Institute, I have no hesitation in saying it is time to abolish methods | 1:47:42 | 1:47:49 | |
which allow suffer children to suffer deformities. | 1:47:49 | 1:47:52 | |
APPLAUSE | 1:47:52 | 1:47:54 | |
That's a very fine speech, but I'm tired of being polite. | 1:47:58 | 1:48:02 | |
Children are more important than medical etiquette. Committees investigate Sister Kenny's ideas, | 1:48:02 | 1:48:08 | |
-but who investigated the brains of the committees? -I did. | 1:48:08 | 1:48:13 | |
I've survived worse blows than this when I had fewer friends. | 1:48:13 | 1:48:17 | |
This is a problem of man's own mind. | 1:48:17 | 1:48:20 | |
When we speak with the voice of authority, we come to believe we are authority and not its voice. | 1:48:20 | 1:48:27 | |
This report will do damage. | 1:48:27 | 1:48:29 | |
Not to me but to thousands of children denied proper treatment. | 1:48:29 | 1:48:34 | |
I think the personal attack is unworthy of these gentlemen. | 1:48:34 | 1:48:38 | |
I never misrepresent facts. I don't have to. I owe too much to doctors to be embittered. | 1:48:38 | 1:48:44 | |
And don't think this work has gone unnoticed elsewhere. | 1:48:44 | 1:48:48 | |
Infantile paralysis knows nothing about borders, races, creeds, colours - nor does medicine. | 1:48:48 | 1:48:56 | |
I've fought doctors in the bush, in the city, and I haven't pulled any punches. Neither have they. | 1:48:56 | 1:49:03 | |
They are stubborn, headstrong, cantankerous and they're wonderful. | 1:49:03 | 1:49:08 | |
Fighting so bitterly for what they believe has made me respect them. | 1:49:08 | 1:49:13 | |
If any men give a better account when they meet their maker... | 1:49:13 | 1:49:18 | |
Forgive me, gentlemen. I am thinking of a doctor very close to me in this work, a very good man. | 1:49:18 | 1:49:27 | |
And now, to return to the subject of teaching these muscles to walk again. | 1:49:31 | 1:49:37 | |
You haven't touched your tea, Sister. | 1:49:40 | 1:49:42 | |
Oh, I was thinking. | 1:49:42 | 1:49:45 | |
CHILDREN CHATTER OUTSIDE | 1:49:53 | 1:49:56 | |
-What's that? -I don't know. | 1:49:56 | 1:49:59 | |
CHILDREN'S VOICES GROW LOUDER | 1:50:10 | 1:50:14 | |
CHILDREN SING: # Happy birthday to you | 1:50:17 | 1:50:21 | |
# Happy birthday to you | 1:50:21 | 1:50:25 | |
# Happy birthday dear Sister | 1:50:25 | 1:50:30 | |
# Happy birthday to you | 1:50:30 | 1:50:34 | |
# Happy birthday to you | 1:50:34 | 1:50:39 | |
# Happy birthday to you | 1:50:39 | 1:50:43 | |
# Happy birthday dear Sister | 1:50:43 | 1:50:48 | |
# Happy birthday to you. # | 1:50:48 | 1:50:52 | |
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