human
The man's yelling his head off, Doctor Masters was contending.
gpt
The police had to rap him with their clubs in the ambulance. He was violent. He wanted his dog. It can't be done. It's too raw. You can't steal his dog this way. He'll make a howl in the papers.
human
Huh! quoth Walter Merritt Emory.
gpt
I'd like to see a reporter with backbone enough to go within talking distance of a leper in the pest-house. And I'd like to see the editor who wouldn't send a pest-house letter (granting it'd been smuggled past the guards) out to be burned the very second he became aware of its source. Don't you worry, Doc. There won't be any noise in the papers.
human
But leprosy! Public health! The dog has been exposed to his master. The dog itself is a peripatetic source of infection.
gpt
Contagion is the better and more technical word, Doc.,
human
Contagion, then, Doctor Masters took him up.
gpt
The public must be considered. It must not run the risk of being infected--
human
Of contracting the contagion,
gpt
Call it what you will. The public--
human
Poppycock, said Walter Merritt Emory.
gpt
What you don't know about leprosy, and what the rest of the board of health doesn't know about leprosy, would fill more books than have been compiled by the men who have expertly studied the disease. The one thing they have eternally tried, and are eternally trying, is to inoculate one animal outside man with the leprosy that is peculiar to man. Horses, rabbits, rats, donkeys, monkeys, mice, and dogs--heavens, they have tried it on them all, tens of thousands of times and a hundred thousand times ten thousand times, and never a successful inoculation! They have never succeeded in inoculating it on one man from another. Here--let me show you.
human
Amazing . . . most interesting . . . Doctor Masters continued to emit from time to time as he followed the expert guidance of the other through the books.
gpt
I never dreamed . . . the amount of work they have done is astounding . . .
human
But, he said in conclusion,
gpt
Yes, you will, Walter Merritt Emory assured him coolly.
human
And I'll tell you why.