WEBVTT 00:00:00.001 --> 00:00:00.002 [...] 00:00:00.002 --> 00:00:00.233 [...] 00:00:00.233 --> 00:00:01.466 [Music] 00:00:01.466 --> 00:00:05.999 [Know for Sure, get a blood test for syphilis] 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:12.500 [Produced by the Research Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences] 00:00:12.500 --> 00:00:15.500 [For the United States Public Health Service] 00:00:15.500 --> 00:00:21.033 [Music] 00:00:21.033 --> 00:00:25.499 [Man 1:] Now you're gonna make a... 00:00:25.500 --> 00:00:45.833 [Men crowded around shop window, talking, smiling, oohing and aahing] [Man 1:] Down, up, down. 00:00:45.833 --> 00:00:48.833 [Man 2:] Tony, Tony, what're ya doing? 00:00:48.833 --> 00:00:51.166 [Tony:] Thatsa my son, I gotta write my boy here. 00:00:51.166 --> 00:00:54.766 [Man 2:] That's not right, you spell it with an O. S-O-N 00:00:54.766 --> 00:00:55.799 [Tony:] Ohhh 00:00:55.800 --> 00:00:58.366 [Man 2:] That's right. 00:00:58.366 --> 00:01:00.232 [Tony:] Whaddya think? 00:01:00.233 --> 00:01:03.399 [Man 3:] That's all right, O. 00:01:03.400 --> 00:01:05.166 [Men cheer] 00:01:05.166 --> 00:01:11.332 [Siren] 00:01:11.333 --> 00:01:16.899 [Men shout and crowd around ambulance as doctor emerges.] 00:01:16.900 --> 00:01:21.000 [Tony:] Please everybody, out of the way, come on. 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:26.100 I got everything all ready, Doc Davis, back here, please. 00:01:26.100 --> 00:01:29.033 That's Maria, my wife, she's in this room 00:01:29.033 --> 00:01:32.099 and she got her sister with her, please doctor, hurry up. 00:01:32.100 --> 00:01:39.000 I stay right here, wait for the good news, huh? 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:41.566 [Door shuts] 00:01:41.566 --> 00:01:46.299 [Tony:] Ah ha, whatsa matter, business is over, finished, please, everybody outside, 00:01:46.300 --> 00:01:52.433 Tomorrow everybody come and drink the free wine for my new baby. Buona Sera. 00:01:52.433 --> 00:01:56.099 Good night and thank you everybody. Good night. 00:01:56.100 --> 00:02:18.633 [Accordion music] 00:02:18.633 --> 00:02:24.766 [Tony:] Whatsa matter doc, don't you gotta tell me he's a boy? He's a boy, no? 00:02:24.766 --> 00:02:28.432 [Dr. Davis:] Yes Tony, it's a boy...[Tony:] Maria, Maria, she's okay? 00:02:28.433 --> 00:02:29.966 [Dr. Davis:] She's all right. 00:02:29.966 --> 00:02:36.732 [Tony:] Well the, the bambino's all right, Maria's all right, but...your face isn't all right. 00:02:36.733 --> 00:02:40.433 Whatsa matter? 00:02:40.433 --> 00:02:44.333 [Dr. Davis:] Tony, your son was born dead. 00:02:44.333 --> 00:02:50.333 [Accordion clanks to the floor] 00:02:50.333 --> 00:02:55.133 [Tony:] My first bambino is dead...what happened? 00:02:55.133 --> 00:02:57.966 [Dr. Davis:] Well, I've got a pretty good idea, Tony. 00:02:57.966 --> 00:02:59.532 But I'll have to ask you a few questions first. 00:02:59.533 --> 00:03:02.899 [Tony:] Questions, what questions? 00:03:02.900 --> 00:03:04.666 [Dr. Davis:] Well not now Tony, I better wait 'til your wife... 00:03:04.666 --> 00:03:07.866 [Tony:] No please, now. You're driving me crazy, what's happening? 00:03:07.866 --> 00:03:10.632 [Dr. Davis:] All right. 00:03:10.633 --> 00:03:14.899 Did anyone ever tell you Tony, that you've got syphilis? 00:03:14.900 --> 00:03:18.033 [Tony:] Syphilis? What are you talking about? I never got any... 00:03:18.033 --> 00:03:21.966 [Dr. Davis:] Think. I want you to think back carefully. 00:03:21.966 --> 00:03:26.432 Do you remember ever having a sore on your penis that didn't heal very fast? 00:03:26.433 --> 00:03:32.299 [Tony:] No no, I never. Well...yes about two years ago. 00:03:32.300 --> 00:03:38.366 Before I was married I got a little sore, but I buy so much salve, I put it on so it will cure. 00:03:38.366 --> 00:03:40.199 [Dr. Davis:] That might make the sore go away, but no medicine 00:03:40.200 --> 00:03:44.266 you could buy ever cured syphilis. 00:03:44.266 --> 00:03:46.666 [Tony:] I've got syphilis. 00:03:46.666 --> 00:03:49.032 [Dr. Davis:] I'm almost sure syphilis killed your baby, Tony. 00:03:49.033 --> 00:03:52.233 You see, a syphilitic sore will go away without 00:03:52.233 --> 00:03:56.199 any treatment in time, but the germs stay in your body. 00:03:56.200 --> 00:03:57.200 [Tony:] You mean I... 00:03:57.200 --> 00:04:08.666 [Dr. Davis:] Yes Tony, I'm afraid that you gave Maria syphilis and she gave it to the baby. 00:04:08.666 --> 00:04:11.199 [Tony grabs a knife and jams it into the countertop.] 00:04:11.200 --> 00:04:13.100 [Dr. Davis:] Tony! 00:04:13.100 --> 00:04:18.600 [Tony:] I killed my bambino, I break my wife's heart, I don't want to live no more. 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:20.100 [Dr. Davis:] Tony, you gotta get hold of yourself. 00:04:20.100 --> 00:04:22.900 [Tony:] What's the good in living no more, I can't have a bambino! 00:04:22.900 --> 00:04:24.100 [Dr. Davis:] You're wrong, Tony. 00:04:24.100 --> 00:04:25.733 With proper medical treatment, 00:04:25.733 --> 00:04:28.066 you can both be cured, then you can have 00:04:28.066 --> 00:04:31.066 all the bambinos you want. 00:04:31.066 --> 00:04:35.699 [Tony:] You...you mean 00:04:35.699 --> 00:04:40.966 me and my Maria, we go to the hospital. 00:04:40.966 --> 00:04:43.266 We can have another bambino and he's gonna live? 00:04:43.266 --> 00:04:45.299 [Dr. Davis:] Sure you can. 00:04:45.300 --> 00:04:48.566 [Tony cries.] 00:04:48.566 --> 00:04:57.899 [Dr. Davis:] If you have the proper medical treatment. I want you to promise me you're gonna come to the hospital. 00:04:57.900 --> 00:05:05.766 [Tony:] Please doctor. Excuse the tears, my heart it feels so full up it's gotta run over a little bit, 00:05:05.766 --> 00:05:12.299 but...is it true that we can have another son who's gonna be all right? 00:05:12.300 --> 00:05:14.800 [Dr. Davis:] Believe me Tony, it is. 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:19.466 [Tony:] All right. We take any kind of a treatment, doctor. 00:05:19.466 --> 00:05:21.266 [Dr. Davis:] Atta boy. 00:05:21.266 --> 00:05:23.799 Now I've got to go in the other room to see your wife. 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:24.966 [Tony:] I gonna go with you. 00:05:24.966 --> 00:05:28.666 [Dr. Davis:] No Tony, but I'll let you know when you can come in. 00:05:28.666 --> 00:05:31.966 [Tony:] Please doc, don't be too long huh? 00:05:31.966 --> 00:05:34.666 [Dr. Davis:] Okay, Tony. 00:05:34.666 --> 00:05:40.232 [Dr. Davis walks away and shuts the shop door.] 00:05:40.233 --> 00:05:51.566 [Tony drops the knife and picks up a towel to wipe his face.] 00:05:51.566 --> 00:06:13.532 [...] 00:06:13.533 --> 00:06:17.499 [Venereal Disease Clinic] 00:06:17.500 --> 00:06:22.366 [...] 00:06:22.366 --> 00:06:26.332 [Dr. Perkins:] Well, goodbye Tony. Now remember you and your wife must come here every week. 00:06:26.333 --> 00:06:27.899 You mustn't miss a single treatment. 00:06:27.900 --> 00:06:30.033 [Tony:] Don't you worry, doctor, me and my Maria 00:06:30.033 --> 00:06:34.733 we come here every week, you betcha my life. 00:06:34.733 --> 00:06:37.366 [Maria:] Thank you, Mr. Doctor, for coming to see me so many times. 00:06:37.366 --> 00:06:40.499 My Tony and me are very glad we have such good friend who tell us what to do. 00:06:40.500 --> 00:06:43.433 [Dr. Martin:] Oh that's all right Mrs. Madroni. Goodbye. [Maria:] Goodbye. 00:06:43.433 --> 00:06:48.633 [Dr. Martin:] Goodbye, Tony. [Tony:] Goodbye doctor, and thank you too much. 00:06:48.633 --> 00:06:50.466 [Dr. Martin:] Be sure you come every week. 00:06:50.466 --> 00:06:54.499 [Dr. Perkins:] Come in, young man. 00:06:54.500 --> 00:06:55.633 [Dr. Martin:] Oh Dr. Perkins? 00:06:55.633 --> 00:06:57.433 [Dr. Perkins:] Yes? 00:06:57.433 --> 00:07:00.266 [Dr. Martin:] I want to thank you for taking an interest in Tony Madroni and his wife. 00:07:00.266 --> 00:07:03.399 [Dr. Perkins:] Oh don't thank me, the more patients the better I like it, Dr. uhhh... 00:07:03.400 --> 00:07:05.433 [Dr. Martin:] Martin. I was the intern on the Madroni case. 00:07:05.433 --> 00:07:09.299 [Dr. Perkins:] Oh yes Dr. Martin, I'm very glad to meet you. Want to come in? Have a chair. 00:07:09.300 --> 00:07:13.200 [Dr. Martin:] Thank you. [Dr. Perkins:] I won't be long. 00:07:13.200 --> 00:07:19.233 [Dr. Perkins:] Well, young man, what seems to be your trouble? That's all right, this is Dr. Martin. 00:07:19.233 --> 00:07:21.199 [Patient:] Well sir, some time ago 00:07:21.200 --> 00:07:25.333 I picked up a girl in a dance hall. 00:07:25.333 --> 00:07:30.833 Well, about three weeks later I noticed a little sore here on my mouth. 00:07:30.833 --> 00:07:35.599 Didn't pay much attention to it, I thought it was just a cold sore, but the darn thing hung on so long 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:38.133 I got kind of worried about it. 00:07:38.133 --> 00:07:43.533 I happened to pick up one of these Public Health Service folders and got to reading 00:07:43.533 --> 00:07:48.699 about syphilis and I got scared. [Folder titled Syphilis, its cause, its spread, its cure] 00:07:48.700 --> 00:07:51.600 [Dr. Perkins:] Hmmm. Did the folder explain everything all right? 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:57.666 [Patient:] Yes sir, said in there even though a sore might heal up just like mind did, 00:07:57.666 --> 00:08:01.999 if you've got syphilis, the germs might still be in your body. 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:05.466 I found out all the things that could happen to you if you didn't get to it right away. 00:08:05.466 --> 00:08:08.066 I figured I better come down here and find out about it. 00:08:08.066 --> 00:08:13.866 [Dr. Perkins:] Good boy. Miss Jones! I want to take a blood test on this man. 00:08:13.866 --> 00:08:19.066 [Nurse Jones:] Yes, doctor. 00:08:19.066 --> 00:08:22.799 [Dr. Perkins:] All right, take off your coat and roll up your sleeve, please. 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:31.633 Now, this blood test will show whether you had a cold sore or whether you've got syphilis. 00:08:31.633 --> 00:08:37.166 If this makes you nervous, you can turn your head. Make a tight fist, please. 00:08:37.166 --> 00:08:38.399 [Patient:] Is it gonna hurt much, doc? 00:08:38.400 --> 00:08:42.266 [Dr. Perkins:] No no, just a little pinprick, and as soon as we finish this 00:08:42.266 --> 00:08:45.466 you can go on to the other room and Dr. Howard will give you a complete physical examination. 00:08:45.466 --> 00:08:53.366 [...] 00:08:53.366 --> 00:08:56.200 [Dr. Martin:] He's pretty lucky to have picked up this folder. 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:58.033 [Dr. Perkins:] Sit down, make yourself comfortable. 00:08:58.033 --> 00:09:01.299 [Dr. Martin:] Thank you. [Dr. Perkins:] Yes, he was lucky to have picked up that folder. 00:09:01.300 --> 00:09:04.066 [Dr. Perkins:] But there are hundreds of thousands of men and women 00:09:04.066 --> 00:09:07.532 in this country suffering from syphilis who won't pick up a folder. 00:09:07.533 --> 00:09:10.399 It's a pretty sad state of affairs when we have to depend on luck, 00:09:10.400 --> 00:09:14.266 to whip this syphilis problem. If they could see the truth behind newspaper 00:09:14.266 --> 00:09:18.766 articles reporting nervous breakdowns, suicides, and deaths from heart failure 00:09:18.766 --> 00:09:23.766 they'd find a shocking percentage could be chalked up to late syphilis. 00:09:23.766 --> 00:09:27.866 Now I was called as a consultant in this case. 00:09:27.866 --> 00:09:32.732 [Stanton Brokerage Firm Crashes--Robert Stanton, President, Suffers Nervous Breakdown] 00:09:32.733 --> 00:09:34.599 [Dr. Perkins:] Stanton didn't have a nervous breakdown. 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:37.700 He had paresis, probably contracted syphilis 00:09:37.700 --> 00:09:40.366 15 or 20 years ago. The outward symptoms 00:09:40.366 --> 00:09:41.799 disappeared and he thought he was cured. 00:09:41.800 --> 00:09:44.200 And syphilis began to soften his brain 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:46.800 and his business judgment went bad, but by the 00:09:46.800 --> 00:09:48.766 time he went to pieces it is too late to 00:09:48.766 --> 00:09:50.932 save either the public's money or Stanton. 00:09:50.933 --> 00:09:54.099 [Dr. Martin:] And yet he could have been cured if he'd received medical care in time. 00:09:54.100 --> 00:09:56.533 [Dr. Perkins:] Surely, if Stanton had had a blood test 00:09:56.533 --> 00:10:00.699 and proper treatment years ago, we could have prevented that tragedy. 00:10:00.700 --> 00:10:04.500 [Dr. Perkins:] Now here's another problem we run into. 00:10:04.500 --> 00:10:07.000 Here's a man who began his treatments 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:09.366 10 years ago and took them for a few weeks. 00:10:09.366 --> 00:10:12.066 Until the sore cleared up and he thought he 00:10:12.066 --> 00:10:14.532 was cured. We couldn't get him back again 00:10:14.533 --> 00:10:16.299 for the rest of the treatments. 00:10:16.300 --> 00:10:19.500 It took syphilis ten years to get him, but two months ago 00:10:19.500 --> 00:10:25.233 he had a heart attack while he was driving his car. 00:10:25.233 --> 00:10:31.233 He crashed into a schoolyard and killed three children. Syphilis killed them all. 00:10:31.233 --> 00:10:35.733 [Dr. Martin:] Yes, but those men didn't know as much about syphilis as young fellas do today. 00:10:35.733 --> 00:10:38.966 The average young fella today knows enough to use a rubber to protect himself. 00:10:38.966 --> 00:10:41.466 [Dr. Perkins:] Well Morton I'd like to agree with you, but I can't. 00:10:41.466 --> 00:10:43.532 You'd be surprised how many young 00:10:43.533 --> 00:10:45.633 fellas don't know enough to use a rubber. 00:10:45.633 --> 00:10:52.033 Now here's a typical case. Jerry Anderson. 00:10:52.033 --> 00:10:54.566 Jerry Anderson, college athlete, good student, 00:10:54.566 --> 00:10:56.999 intelligent, son of respectable family. 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:00.300 Jerry's story began the afternoon 00:11:00.300 --> 00:11:01.966 of the last football game of the season. 00:11:01.966 --> 00:11:03.966 He and his teammates had won the game 00:11:03.966 --> 00:11:06.366 and decided to go out for a little celebration that evening. 00:11:06.366 --> 00:11:10.699 [Jerry:] Remember me? [Housekeeper:] Sure do. 00:11:10.700 --> 00:11:26.933 [Housekeeper:] More the merrier. Ladies in the parlor! [Jerry:] Come on in fellas, good evening...hurry up. 00:11:26.933 --> 00:11:31.166 [Housekeeper:] Miss Peggy is waiting for you. [Jerry:] Thanks. [Door closes] 00:11:31.166 --> 00:11:37.866 [Dr. Perkins:] So, Jerry had his celebration and only three weeks later, 00:11:37.866 --> 00:11:41.699 he was sitting just where you are. 00:11:41.700 --> 00:11:46.566 [Dr. Perkins:] What's your name? [Jerry:] Jerry Anderson. 00:11:46.566 --> 00:11:50.966 [Dr. Perkins:] Jerry Anderson, hmm. How did you happen to come into the clinic? 00:11:50.966 --> 00:11:55.266 [Jerry] Well, I couldn't afford to go to a private doctor, I didn't know what to do. 00:11:55.266 --> 00:12:01.132 Called the County Health Department to see if they couldn't do something for me. I was told to come and see you. 00:12:01.133 --> 00:12:03.866 [Dr. Perkins:] Hmm. What's your trouble, Jerry? 00:12:03.866 --> 00:12:07.999 [Jerry:] Well I, I've got a pretty bad sore down here. 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:13.266 [Dr. Perkins:] Mmm-hmm. Why don't you just stretch out on the table over there, we'll have a look at you. 00:12:13.266 --> 00:12:19.566 [Dr. Perkins:] You're lucky the sore bothered you son, 00:12:19.566 --> 00:12:22.599 because it won't take us long to find out what your trouble is. 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:27.300 [...] 00:12:27.300 --> 00:12:29.300 [Dr. Perkins:] How long have you had this, Jerry? 00:12:29.300 --> 00:12:35.533 [Jerry:] About eight days, doctor. [Dr. Perkins:] It aches pretty bad, doesn't it? [Jerry:] It sure does. 00:12:35.533 --> 00:12:38.166 [Dr. Perkins:] Why didn't you use a rubber? 00:12:38.166 --> 00:12:45.599 [Jerry:] I'd gone to this girl before. I'd heard the girls that work in the house were inspected every week. She looked clean. 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:51.100 [Dr. Perkins:] You young fellows who think prostitutes are safe because they look clean, make an awful mistake. 00:12:51.100 --> 00:12:56.366 Come over here. I want you to see this little corkscrew devil, 00:12:56.366 --> 00:13:00.932 that's causing all your trouble. Look. 00:13:00.933 --> 00:13:06.033 [...] 00:13:06.033 --> 00:13:12.800 [Dr. Perkins:] This darkfield test shows up the spirochetes. Can you see them wriggling back and forth across the slide? 00:13:12.800 --> 00:13:19.566 [Jerry:] Yes. What did you call them? [Dr. Perkins:] Spirochetes. Those are the germs that caused your syphilis. 00:13:19.566 --> 00:13:22.532 You had to learn the hard way that you can't tell by the looks of a woman 00:13:22.533 --> 00:13:25.033 whether she has syphilis or not. 00:13:25.033 --> 00:13:31.433 [...] 00:13:31.433 --> 00:13:33.433 [Jerry:] Well I guess that finishes me. 00:13:33.433 --> 00:13:37.599 I'll have to leave home, quit school, and go someplace where people don't know who I am. 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:41.733 [Dr. Perkins:] Now Jerry, you know you can't meet any problem by running away from it. 00:13:41.733 --> 00:13:44.133 You may not realize it, but you're a very lucky young man 00:13:44.133 --> 00:13:46.699 because we're catching this in time to cure you. 00:13:46.700 --> 00:13:49.800 Miss Jones, prepare a four-tenths neo-injection please. 00:13:49.800 --> 00:13:54.266 [Jerry:] Yes, but doctor I can't take a chance on the folks of the kids at school finding out I've got syphilis. 00:13:54.266 --> 00:13:58.032 [Dr. Perkins:] Now don't worry about having syphilis. Luckily after the first few injections 00:13:58.033 --> 00:14:02.366 the sore will disappear and you won't be able to infect anybody. 00:14:02.366 --> 00:14:04.966 You can go about your classwork, play basketball, 00:14:04.966 --> 00:14:06.699 tennis, or indulge in any other sport. 00:14:06.700 --> 00:14:08.733 Sit down here please and roll up your sleeve. 00:14:08.733 --> 00:14:11.666 And nobody need ever know that you have syphilis. 00:14:11.666 --> 00:14:17.766 But you'll have to report every week and not miss a single treatment for at least one year. 00:14:17.766 --> 00:14:22.599 [Jerry:] That's sure a relief, I feel like living again. 00:14:22.599 --> 00:14:32.000 [...] 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:34.900 [Jerry:] Gee doctor, that, that didn't hurt a bit. 00:14:34.900 --> 00:14:37.400 I'd always heard that shots for syphilis were painful. 00:14:37.400 --> 00:14:39.600 [Dr. Perkins:] Not if you go to a doctor who knows his business. 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:42.566 [Jerry:] I don't know how to thank you, doctor. 00:14:42.566 --> 00:14:45.666 [Dr. Perkins:] Just come into my office and give me the name of the girl who infected you. 00:14:45.666 --> 00:14:48.299 That's all the thanks I want. Come along. 00:14:48.300 --> 00:14:52.300 [...] 00:14:52.300 --> 00:14:55.266 [Jerry:] Gee doctor I kinda hate to do that. I'm no stool pigeon. 00:14:55.266 --> 00:14:56.932 [Dr. Perkins:] Sit down here, please. 00:14:56.933 --> 00:15:01.333 Now Jerry, a lot of men have a false sense of chivalry about giving the name of the woman 00:15:01.333 --> 00:15:05.566 who infected them. We're not going to do anything harmful to the girl. 00:15:05.566 --> 00:15:07.799 And your name won't be brought into it. 00:15:07.800 --> 00:15:12.400 We only want to bring her in for examination and treatment. 00:15:12.400 --> 00:15:14.366 If we can treat and cure you and the woman 00:15:14.366 --> 00:15:16.366 responsible for your infection, 00:15:16.366 --> 00:15:18.399 we're breaking another link in the evil chain 00:15:18.400 --> 00:15:20.200 of syphilis that stretches out from 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:23.566 almost every case of the disease. 00:15:23.566 --> 00:15:27.099 Now look here. We've found that one case of 00:15:27.100 --> 00:15:29.666 syphilis usually results in three more. 00:15:29.666 --> 00:15:32.932 Each of the three results in another three. 00:15:32.933 --> 00:15:35.499 So you can see Jerry, that every time 00:15:35.500 --> 00:15:37.366 we treat and cure this disease, 00:15:37.366 --> 00:15:39.699 we're preventing the spread of syphilis 00:15:39.700 --> 00:15:43.200 to many hundreds of people. 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:45.766 So you're doing your job by coming to me 00:15:45.766 --> 00:15:48.166 for treatment and I'll do mine by curing you. 00:15:48.166 --> 00:15:52.000 [...] 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:54.766 [Dr. Martin:] I'm beginning to see what we're up against, the same old mistakes over and over again. 00:15:54.766 --> 00:15:57.699 What are we going to do to put young men wise? 00:15:57.700 --> 00:16:01.266 [Dr. Perkins:] I can show you one of the answers to that question if you have a little time to spare. 00:16:01.266 --> 00:16:06.532 [Dr. Martin:] I'm right with you doctor. Oh, the courthouse. What are we doing here? 00:16:06.533 --> 00:16:09.599 [Dr. Perkins:] Well, the county health officers sometimes hold their meetings here. 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:15.933 Other times in schoolhouses, lodge buildings, or wherever we can find the space and get an audience. 00:16:15.933 --> 00:16:19.233 Today they're running a new film for a group of young men 00:16:19.233 --> 00:16:22.999 to show them how to protect themselves from contracting venereal diseases. 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:26.633 [Dr. Perkins:] Simple straightforward fights with no punches pulled. 00:16:26.633 --> 00:16:29.933 [Dr. Martin:] What do they mean by Sucker? 00:16:29.933 --> 00:16:34.366 [Are you being played for a SUCKER] 00:16:34.366 --> 00:16:38.899 [Dr. Perkins:] Anybody who believes a druggist or a quack doctor ever cured a case of syphilis. 00:16:38.900 --> 00:16:41.766 And there are hundreds of thousands of them in this country. 00:16:41.766 --> 00:16:46.799 Why, disreputable druggists and quack doctors robbed the poor devils of millions every year. 00:16:46.800 --> 00:16:49.600 Just the other day I heard of a tragic case. 00:16:49.600 --> 00:17:04.433 [M.D. Paxton, Specialist in Men's Diseases] 00:17:04.433 --> 00:17:12.733 [...] 00:17:12.733 --> 00:17:14.700 [Dr. Paxton] Well Mr. Spencer, I can see you're 00:17:14.700 --> 00:17:16.066 walking much better since that last 00:17:16.066 --> 00:17:19.632 medicine I gave you, sit down, sit right down. 00:17:19.633 --> 00:17:25.533 [Mr. Spencer:] No doctor, not much better. My legs seem to be getting worse every day. 00:17:25.533 --> 00:17:28.566 [Dr. Paxton:] But yours is a very stubborn case, Mr. Spencer, 00:17:28.566 --> 00:17:32.599 very stubborn indeed. But you must 00:17:32.600 --> 00:17:34.766 remember that every rocky road in life 00:17:34.766 --> 00:17:38.599 has a turning. I have just perfected a 00:17:38.600 --> 00:17:41.400 new remedy for locomotor ataxia. 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:43.933 It's taken me years of research. 00:17:43.933 --> 00:17:48.266 [Mr. Spencer:] But doctor, you've been prescribing new medicines for me for a long time. 00:17:48.266 --> 00:17:51.899 I paid you over $2,000. 00:17:51.900 --> 00:17:57.433 [Dr. Paxton:] Mr. Spencer, I'd sooner cut off my right arm, up to there, 00:17:57.433 --> 00:18:04.166 then take another dollar from you, if you've lost faith in my ability or my integrity. 00:18:04.166 --> 00:18:07.599 [Mr. Spencer:] I'm sorry, doctor. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. 00:18:07.600 --> 00:18:09.433 I don't mind putting out the 00:18:09.433 --> 00:18:11.899 money if I, if I could only get better. 00:18:11.900 --> 00:18:17.166 [Dr. Paxton:] But losing faith in me isn't going to make you feel any better, is it now? 00:18:17.166 --> 00:18:21.232 [Mr. Spencer:] Well, maybe since you put so much time on the new medicine, 00:18:21.233 --> 00:18:23.933 I ought to give it a fair trial. 00:18:23.933 --> 00:18:26.066 Are you really sure it will help me? 00:18:26.066 --> 00:18:28.899 [Dr. Paxton] Why, of course I'm sure! 00:18:28.900 --> 00:18:31.800 This medicine I absolutely guarantee. 00:18:31.800 --> 00:18:36.066 Paxton's Panacea, three bottles of this 00:18:36.066 --> 00:18:38.999 scientific discovery of mine, at five dollars a bottle, 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:41.533 will eliminate every last evil 00:18:41.533 --> 00:18:44.299 germ of syphilis from your body. 00:18:44.300 --> 00:18:46.600 Now just follow the directions. Each bottle will 00:18:46.600 --> 00:18:50.033 last you three days. And on the ninth day, 00:18:50.033 --> 00:18:54.333 all your pains will have vanished and all of your troubles will be over. 00:18:54.333 --> 00:19:03.999 [...] 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:06.566 [Gunshot] 00:19:06.566 --> 00:19:09.399 [Dr. Martin:] Of course the coroner said suicide. 00:19:09.400 --> 00:19:12.633 [Dr. Perkins:] Yes, but that quack with his worthless drugs really murdered the old man. 00:19:12.633 --> 00:19:18.133 Martin, there's no excuse for that. We've got the weapons to wipe out this disease. 00:19:18.133 --> 00:19:20.266 But to use them, doctors must have the help of everyone 00:19:20.266 --> 00:19:23.199 who has been exposed to syphilis. 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:26.133 [Narrator:] Syphilis kills babies. 00:19:26.133 --> 00:19:30.133 It strikes back with blindness and insanity. 00:19:30.133 --> 00:19:32.333 A licensed physician 00:19:32.333 --> 00:19:35.633 with modern methods can cure syphilis. 00:19:35.633 --> 00:19:37.866 No quack doctor or medicine you buy 00:19:37.866 --> 00:19:45.399 can do the job. Don't be a sucker! Stick to medical treatment and you can be cured. 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:53.800 Prostitutes and pickups aren't safe and cannot be made safe. It doesn't pay to take a chance. 00:19:53.800 --> 00:19:56.866 Use a rubber. 00:19:56.866 --> 00:20:02.532 Watch for the warning signals. Any sore or rash that does not heal quickly, 00:20:02.533 --> 00:20:06.099 means go to a licensed medical doctor 00:20:06.100 --> 00:20:09.600 or call your city or county health officer, at once. 00:20:09.600 --> 00:20:12.266 If you think you've been exposed at any time, 00:20:12.266 --> 00:20:19.399 get a blood test and a physical examination now. Know for sure! 00:20:19.400 --> 00:20:25.566 [Music] 00:20:25.566 --> 00:20:31.866 [The End]