D.
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cian, your latest friend Flint. By the way,
did he approve your acceptance of this munic¬
ipal hospital appointment? Lucky we have
some one to take vour place.
Tugendvetter: Little Wenger? Ves, quite
capable. You will not let him fill my place
for any length of time?
Ebenwald:
I have just mentioned having
received a letter from Professor Hell, who is
willing—
Tugendvetter: Ohl he has written to me—
Bernhardi: Well! there is certainly nothing
slow about the gentleman.
Tugendvetter (looking at Ebenwald): Say,
Bernhardi, your institution would have a splen¬
did acquisition in Hell.
Bernhardi: Then he must have developed
remarkably in Graz. When he was in Vienna,
we considered him absolutely incompetent.
Tugendvetter: Who, for instance?
Bernhardi: You, for instance.
Tugendvetter: I think that Wenger is too
young.
Bernhardi: Well, one of them has to be
elected, and I hope that you take sufficient in¬
terest in the future of your department to vote
for the better man.
Tugendvetter: Well, I should say so!
Aren't wethe founders of it, Bernhardi, Cyp¬
rian and I. How long ago was it?
Ebenwald: Fifteen years ago, dear Tugend¬
vetter.
Tugendvetter: Fifteen years, arhem—a
beautiful time. By jove, it will not be easy
for me. Say, Bernhardi, could it not be ar¬
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ranged for me to remain here?
Bernhardi: Absolutely not. The day you
take your place there I shall appoint your
former assistant to fill your place until elec¬
tion.
Ebenwald: Then I wish to ask that the el¬
ection take place within the next few days.
(Bernhardi shows resentment at the inter¬
ference of Ebenwald, who leaves in apparent
indignation. All exit. As they leave, Doctor
Adler enters; small, dark, lively, about thirty
years old. Kurt enters. He and Adler en¬
gage in conversation about the slow progress
the science of medicine has made.)
Adler: All that you can do is to experi¬
ment.
Kurt: What are we to do? We must try
the new remedies if the old ones fail.
Adler: And tomorrow the new is old; that
is why I chose Pathological Anatomy. There,
at least onc knows what he is doing, and is the
master.
Kurt: You forget, Doctor Adler, there is
One above you.
Adler: And He hasn't time to bother about
us, He is too busy with the spiritual depart¬
ment. (Looks over the record.) Also Roent¬
gen? Do vou really use that in such cases?
Kurt: We are obliged to try everything,
Doctor Adler, especially where there is noth¬
ing more to be lost.
(Cyprian enters, an elderly man with long,
blond hair. He is looking for the janitor.)
Cyprian: Can't find him. I am sure he is
loon. The same thing will happen here
ir
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25. Proorernedi
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cian, your latest friend Flint. By the way,
did he approve your acceptance of this munic¬
ipal hospital appointment? Lucky we have
some one to take vour place.
Tugendvetter: Little Wenger? Ves, quite
capable. You will not let him fill my place
for any length of time?
Ebenwald:
I have just mentioned having
received a letter from Professor Hell, who is
willing—
Tugendvetter: Ohl he has written to me—
Bernhardi: Well! there is certainly nothing
slow about the gentleman.
Tugendvetter (looking at Ebenwald): Say,
Bernhardi, your institution would have a splen¬
did acquisition in Hell.
Bernhardi: Then he must have developed
remarkably in Graz. When he was in Vienna,
we considered him absolutely incompetent.
Tugendvetter: Who, for instance?
Bernhardi: You, for instance.
Tugendvetter: I think that Wenger is too
young.
Bernhardi: Well, one of them has to be
elected, and I hope that you take sufficient in¬
terest in the future of your department to vote
for the better man.
Tugendvetter: Well, I should say so!
Aren't wethe founders of it, Bernhardi, Cyp¬
rian and I. How long ago was it?
Ebenwald: Fifteen years ago, dear Tugend¬
vetter.
Tugendvetter: Fifteen years, arhem—a
beautiful time. By jove, it will not be easy
for me. Say, Bernhardi, could it not be ar¬
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ranged for me to remain here?
Bernhardi: Absolutely not. The day you
take your place there I shall appoint your
former assistant to fill your place until elec¬
tion.
Ebenwald: Then I wish to ask that the el¬
ection take place within the next few days.
(Bernhardi shows resentment at the inter¬
ference of Ebenwald, who leaves in apparent
indignation. All exit. As they leave, Doctor
Adler enters; small, dark, lively, about thirty
years old. Kurt enters. He and Adler en¬
gage in conversation about the slow progress
the science of medicine has made.)
Adler: All that you can do is to experi¬
ment.
Kurt: What are we to do? We must try
the new remedies if the old ones fail.
Adler: And tomorrow the new is old; that
is why I chose Pathological Anatomy. There,
at least onc knows what he is doing, and is the
master.
Kurt: You forget, Doctor Adler, there is
One above you.
Adler: And He hasn't time to bother about
us, He is too busy with the spiritual depart¬
ment. (Looks over the record.) Also Roent¬
gen? Do vou really use that in such cases?
Kurt: We are obliged to try everything,
Doctor Adler, especially where there is noth¬
ing more to be lost.
(Cyprian enters, an elderly man with long,
blond hair. He is looking for the janitor.)
Cyprian: Can't find him. I am sure he is
loon. The same thing will happen here
ir