Hysteria Page #2

year.

Guy's of course, Charing Cross.

The Westminster Hospital, most recently...

Excellent.

- St Thomas's

Old St Thomas's

The popular Stepney sick asylum...

Good. Impressive.

...the diseases of the chest.

Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary...

Fine...fine.

It's...It's a variety of experiences.

But, tell me doctor...

what do you know of hysteria?

Huh...

Nothing.

Nothing?

But it's a plague of our time.

I would venture to say,

that half the women in London are affected.

It stands from an overactive uterus.

In its most severe forms,

it demands drastic measures.

institutionalization, surgery even.

But in it's milder manifestations:

Nymphomania, frigidity, melancholia, anxiety,

it's eminently treatable.

Interesting.

Look. I'll come straight to the point, doctor.

I'm keen for help.

Oh, you saw my waiting room.

Not enough hands to do the work, so to speak.

Sir, I would be enormously grateful

for any position that allowed me

to offer relieve to my patients

with little chance of killing them.

I've treated thousands of cases,

and I've not lost a single patient.

But I won't lie to you, Granville.

It's tedious, tiring work.

Are you fit?

I have never shook from hard work in the

pursuit of helping the most needy among us.

Jolly good.

Shall we say, umm...three pounds a week?

Three pounds?

Four.

Plus food and lodging.

I accept.

We're going to do great things together, Granville.

Good God, what a grip.

So, breakfast at eight, dinner at six.

Your room is up...ahh...

Emily.

I want you to meet my new assistant.

Dr. Mortimer Granville.

My daughter, Emily Dalrymple.

Your servant, ma'am.

So pleased to meet you, Dr. Granville.

Emily is the angel of the house.

Since the day that my wife, Melodia, passed away,

Emily has run things in proper order.

Oh, and she's also quite a scientist in her own right.

You boast, Father.

Let me guess.

Jollyty?

Botany?

Lepidopterology?

Phrenology.

- Phrenology...hahahaha...Yes.

I can assure you Phrenology

is an accurate science, doctor.

Yes. Besides emulation of the bump

someone's head's a varied road map to the personality,

if one is properly trained to read them.

I don't mean to imply...

I think a demonstration is in order

for our young skeptic.

it could be the most convivial.

Please.

What...

Dr. Granville, you had the most

perfectly formed nimbus I've ever felt.

nimbus?

He is a man of great wisdom.

I knew it. I knew it

And your mastoid is...is very well pronounced.

Doctor, you're quite sympathetic, aren't you?

Umm...well...

What else...what else?

Oh...

Oh, I'm so sorry.

- What?

It's just...

Well your...your thrombus is so...rigid,

so jotting and prominent, it startled me.

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