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Health is a mere word. I only see around me people suffering more or less acutely from diseases more or less serious, which more or less rapidly get the better of them.

10 seconds sound clip from the Dr Knock (Theatre Royal 1954) classic radio drama series episode.

You can hear this line at 00:12:44.407 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- It's almost unbelievable. Was my predecessor not quite up to his work, between ourselves?

- Oh, Doctor Parpalaid was a most worthy man. We couldn't have got on better, but...

- But if you bound up his prescriptions at the year's end, they wouldn't have made a very big book, I suppose.

- You've hit it.

- And yet, as you know yourself, every single soul in St Maurice is ipso facto a potential patient.

- Of course, they have to fall ill first.

- Fall ill? That is a phrase that modern science has rendered meaningless.

- Health is a mere word. I only see around me people suffering more or less acutely from diseases more or less serious, which more or less rapidly get the better of them.

- Of course, if you go on telling them that they're quite well, they're glad enough to believe you.

- But your only excuse for doing so would be if you had so many patients on your hand already, you couldn't attend to any more.

- That sounds a very interesting theory.

- It's simply the modern scientific view of the matter.

- Think it over. We compel every citizen to defend his country on the very same principle. We should force him, whether he likes it or not, to fight against disease.

- Our calling, yours and mine, ranks second to none in the world. How shameful that it should think bit by bit, from the high place of prosperity and influence to which our predecessors, the best of them, have raised it.

[...]

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Dr Knock (1954) Sound Clip

Dr KnockEnjoy Robert Morley's performance in the 1954 Theatre Royal radio play of Jules Romain's 'Dr Knock', and explore standout quotes on our website.

Actors: Robert Morley (Dr Knock), Sir Ralph Richardson (Host)

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