Walpole Monologue from The Doctor's Dilemma

From The Doctor's Dilemma by Bernard Shaw

male · defiant · 57 sec

Blood-poisoning. (RIDGEON: Blood-poisoning! Impossible.) I tell you, blood-poisoning. Ninety-five per cent of the human race suffer from chronic blood-poisoning, and die of it. It's as simple as A.B.C. Your nuciform sac is full of decaying matter--undigested food and waste products--rank ptomaines. Now you take my advice, Ridgeon. Let me cut it out for you. You'll be another man afterwards. (SIR PATRICK: Dont you like him as he is?) No I dont. I dont like any man who hasnt a healthy circulation. I tell you this: in an intelligently governed country people wouldnt be allowed to go about with nuciform sacs, making themselves centres of infection. The operation ought to be compulsory: it's ten times more important than vaccination.

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