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This is a story of the constant invader. Each one of us is an individual the sum total of our past the reflection of influences directed toward us by people things and events here is the story of one young woman who faced a battle for her life and found she had been denied the strength of mind and emotion to win it a tale told you now by the distinguished star Vincent Price. Her name was Mary Hart she had come to this place with fear in her eyes and nerves and. She had arrived at the hospital the night before with her mother then a mother had gone and she had been put to bed you know. Reassured and given a supper by a friendly next and then the next morning it happened from the moment the resident doctor had opened her door the medical social worker record been there and seen it and had gone it once for the superintendent Dr Cooper. She gave him as much of the story as she could as they hurried down the long hall toward Mary Hart's room she's only eighteen doctor but she seemed all right when she came in last night according to her history of the one sent to us by a family doctor and she's been in bed at home for two years they've tried to get into the hospital before what she has characterized when you left her just now but she calmed down somewhat as soon as Dr Johnson left her all this way Dr She's in for seventeen Have you asked about the matter I've tried but she doesn't seem to give any answers that makes sense I suppose your mother's going back to town for seventeen this is atmospheric or do you want me to come with you please they do it in our section here no doubt there are. Good morning Miss Hart whining and I am Dr Hoover the superintendent of the hospital Mr Berger tells me that you've been a little upset All right well perhaps a sedative might help much because when you've got the nurse you know don't go don't leave me please do not know till I get there or stay if she wishes Musburger Now let's see what kind of approach I will let me have Iraq we don't know what and so we just don't like it and Dr Johnson whispered Yes Doc Yes MARTIN Please I'm going to read you know I would just break up now please pray tell are what's wrong so that we can do something about it when you. See what you're going to look for and I know what the problem is I would say there are some tissues there on your night table this time on May I call you Mary I don't kid he used thank you feeling better. Just try and relax in that bed and tell me all about it what's up saving you Mary from the fray of doctors but they want to help you dear it's not Dr I didn't think it was after all you've been in bed with TB at home for two years and I know that your family doctor must have been very good to you she was wonderful she do you mean that you're afraid of men doctors yes or is it just men in general that you're afraid of my mother didn't want me to come here she said there'd be men kind of crazy but you weren't getting way out of home Mary and you were doctors that. You want to touch. Me. About Mary you must have had a father why didn't. I hate it he left mommy and me when I was only four years old I've never seen him but I hate it if you've never seen him How do you know you hate him Mary mommy's told me about him she knows I'm not going to stay here I'm going. To the world it's fantastic but it's true Dr Who but Mary Hart is afraid of me and an hysterical unreasoning fear that's grown up and been nurtured by a mother you say you talk to our family physician on the phone yes Dr talent a woman and she's recognized the dominance Mary's mother has over but she's never seen anything like this happen it sounds to me like a case for a psychiatrist Miss Baker and we don't have one attached to the hospital but something has to be done if we're to save this girl's life I know doctor from the X. rays Dr talents and it's obvious Mary has a moderately advanced to be now in her present confused hysterical state we can do nothing for she wants to leave the hospital that we can't give up that easily I think the source of this emotional trouble is her mother when you talk to her and see if you can get her to help I've asked her to come Dr Hooper good something has to be done fast in this case what's in the girl's confused fearful mind is helping the TB germs in her lungs to kill it. But Mrs high don't you want us new I never should have brought my baby here I told Dr talent but she frightened me so with her talk that's the only reason I consented I knew Mary couldn't do without me don't you think you should help her do without Jim this is hard for her state and she's a very sick girl she needs the help she can receive only here in the hospital and let you help her to accept it I'm going to take her home I can take care of her I can get how well do you think I have if her father came and talked to what. She has no father his name and address I hear on the history for what about Dr talent the doctor agrees that perhaps if he came and talked to me he don't you dare I mean he won't come you haven't seen Mary in fourteen years if you have any regard for that child's fees the doctor talent thinks her father might be able to help her I can't believe that she said that I could be really make sure your with her at the same time and I'm sure you're not afraid of a child meeting her father of course not why should I be certainly not. Mary's from it just down the hall here Mr Have I told you all you want to know about the situation yes I'm afraid so and it's almost beyond belief I knew Martha was better but I didn't realize she could so what the child's mind had mothers with her while Mr Hard out I think you want to stay and that whatever you say you must try not to completely destroy her faith and her mother and from what you've told me it would be so reason why not that I must break or I'll try to say the right things he has her room I won't go in with you and good luck I'll need it. Fourteen years well here goes. It's all right dear you don't have to stay here we'll go home and and things alone often Mary. I didn't think you'd have the arrogance to come Mary this man is legally your father I've told you about him I don't have anything to say to her. I can understand that Mary but if you wouldn't mind listening to what I have to say nothing you can say to her will help I marry the doctor say you're hurting yourself by not liking them help you by your attitude this fear you have. I think it goes back to the fact that you're trying to hate me she does hate you yes I do I don't see how it's possible to hate someone you don't even know Mary how could I know you you never even came to see me in all these years I'm sure your mother explain why now he's going to lie to tell you it's all my fault I mean she didn't tell you she had a court order preventing me from seeing you until you were sixteen then when you were sick I rather you didn't tell me that I knew with this man saw you it would only hurt you dear it was for the best I'm not sure it was we got along without you she brought me up well even though it was quite a struggle she always told me how hard it was I'm sorry Mary I did the best I could send your mother as much money as I had to to take care of you both you sent us money I never told you that because it doesn't know how much money did you say why enough to take care of you both and I paid all your doctor's bills the house you live in I gave to your mother Mother Is that true. What a pity is and you lied to me you said it all came from an inheritance you told me he had to give it to us as part of the settlement Why should he take the credit to you why to me that you know I gave you more than the settlement required and I sent Mary money for a birthday to buy Christmases you sent. I never got anything he can't prove he sent you a thing he's just proving what you said that you know he couldn't prove. Did you keep the things my father sent from now you listen to me Mary I knew what was best for you and I still do have and I given you every waking minute love you watched over you taken care of you darling I I don't want you to become upset over little things little things I think of you used to make me hate my father. You wanted me to believe the very What father was. So it was all. Memory I insist that you really did me so great of life I had no friends Oh Mary your upset when you realize what I didn't realize what you did all right oh yeah right he's gone way I want to be alone only. Now that I know my father Miss brick He's a wonderful man he's loved me all these years and I didn't know what it's like a big white being lifted I'm glad Mary. Why did my mother do this thing to me where people sometimes know race hatred and bitterness until it becomes the guiding force of their lives she probably justified her actions by saying to herself that she was protecting you from what had happened to her I hope you don't hold it against her now miss because I understand mother and I'm sorry for I'm glad you're acting very grown up I feel that way all of a sudden and I want to get well now you know I was so mixed up before I didn't really care and the doctors here don't frighten you any more maybe just a little but it's just habit I'm getting better every day and Dr Hooper has been so wonderful and you had your first conference with Mr M's did the rehabilitation directed too didn't you were trying to decide what I should study learn to be so I can start learning as soon as the doctor says I'm well enough good. I don't know too much about we have bullet patients but it seems to me I have to be rehabilitated as a person before I could be cured of my tuberculosis Mary what's in people's mind has a lot to do with how well they can fight the tuberculosis in their lungs why you won Dr Who but to be interest to get me straightened out that I can understand for as I can see I was just a headache it's because our job is to cure people of tuberculosis and mostly that requires helping them to cure themselves but we know that even if we cure them they'll get sick again if they can't face life as it is for them if they haven't the strength and will to go on living so our job is more than just a medical one call it rehabilitation if you like I call it a kind of preparation for living that patients must have if we are to save the lives of those who have TB. Or. Long ago we learned that the cure of tuberculosis is not alone the problem of all manner of medicine. The human body is more than a complex machine that when damaged can be repaired and put back into action again it is a machine with a heart and a mind and emotions that prayer profound part in the final lasting success of the body's fight against the tuberculosis that is invaded and so more and more in our TB hospitals after the medical cure is complete those who have had TB must be given person old social and vocational help to bring them back to living a kind of positive independent living that is the right of every American we call that rehabilitation and it saves lives it should begin in the hospital. A special process of education designed to help people win against their TB and to make their victory last the rest of their lives yes rehabilitation is a new and vital weapon and an indispensable one against the constant inundate the God more or. The the. Narrated by Vincent Price written and directed by Hugh chain with musical direction by Ben Ludlow this series is brought to you by your tuberculosis association it is designed to increase your knowledge of a disease that struck one hundred fifteen thousand new victims last year it is designed to give you knowledge that may help you if your D.B. ever strike you or your. Old. God. Oh oh. Oh.