The Best with the Best to Get the Best

The Knick 2×3

& Dr. Zinberg: Anything else?
    Dr. Chickering: I am not a Jew... But I worked on many of them at the Knick. Recent immigrants mostly, so I learned a little Yiddish.
    Dr. Zinberg: Azoy?
    Dr. Chickering: A bissel.
    Dr. Zinberg: It will be helpful.

& Dr. Zinberg: ...he’ll join Guggenheim in the lab to search for surgical applications for the new gland extract.
    Dr. Chickering: I... I wasn’t aware of any new gland extract.
    Dr. Zinberg: It’s an interesting substance that’s been taken from the glands of several animals by a Pole named Cybulski. I have no idea what he calls it, but we’re calling it adrenaline. You’ll help us learn if it has any practical uses...

& Dr. Drexler: You’ve seen the streets of this city. The dregs of the world are coming here. Every country emptying their slums into our ports. Italians, Jews, any Semite, really. Slavs with their darkness and filth, gypsies and homosexuals, the dim-witted, infirm, and defective everywhere we look. But among them, the Negro, the one we brought here ourselves, he could be the largest danger of all.
    Doctor: We were just discussing eugenics. Drexler and I are both teaching courses on the subject this year. Do you know much about it?
    Dr. Gallinger: Heard a few things. Breed the best with the best to get the best.
    Dr. Drexler: But it’s just as important that the laggards, the worst of our species, don’t get the chance to continue their line or contaminate a better one.
    Dr. Gallinger: And Negroes are the largest threat?
    Dr. Drexler: There’s a reason that as a people they’ve never succeeded. Science is proving their weak intellect and innate lack of character. If they continue to breed, if they, heaven forbid, begin to mix in with us, we’ll forfeit potential greatness for the mongrelization of our species.

& Dr. Drexler: Rockefeller, Carnegie, Harriman, they’re all putting money towards teaching. Colleges and medical schools are adding eugenics courses in droves. It’s the future. And it’s coming just in time.

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& A. D. Elkins: Stay on the path and His forgiving light will soon shine down upon you.

& Genevieve: Well, that’s why I’m writing about Zinberg. A positive story about medicine. And if it happens to show a Jew who isn’t a Lower East Side ghetto peasant, all the better.

& Dr. Chickering: You? Jewish?!
    Genevieve: Yeah, from head to toe. But don’t worry, it’s not catching.

& Genevieve: When you read Genevieve Everidge, she’s anything you want her to be. And I doubt people would feel the same way about Esther Kohn, a shirtmaker’s daughter from Pittsfield.

& Dr. Chickering: We might consider trying on larger animals or even humans.
    Guggenheim: Dr. Zinberg is very specific about his protocols. Start on mice. Present our findings. Then on to rats, guinea pigs. Then cats, dogs, pigs, and only then to humans.

& Dr. Thackery: Syphilis can be killed by temperature.
    Dr. Edwards: How high?
    Dr. Thackery: 106, 107 degrees Fahrenheit. If I can induce a fever in a syphilis patient and get it high enough, I can bake the disease to death.
    Dr. Edwards: Yes, and the patient in the process.

& Dr. Edwards: Where do we start?
    Dr. Thackery: Where we usually do... with a pig.

& Cleary: All right, Otto, let’s get you delira and excira.

& Cleary: You’ve got a visitor.
    Dr. Thackery: Excellent. Thank you, gentlemen. I need to begin a full dissection of this girl’s body.
    Dr. Edwards: And I’ll return in an hour and take the pig’s temperature.
    Cleary: You know, if people actually knew what you did in here, they wouldn’t trust you to give them a fucking aspirin.

& Opal Edwards: What did I miss?

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