"Wonder Drug"
‘[ HE producers of the Drama of Medicine series from the ZB’s could scarcely be blamed for failing in their herculean task of dramatizing a substance by the name of Dicumeral, which has apparently been enlisted in the fight against coronary thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. The opening scene has as many aids to dramatization as
any script-writer on Scientific topics has a right to expect, being set in the Middle West among them thar hills and them = thar steers, and having as hero an
earnest and we opine) straw-chewing young scientist called Ed. However, Ed, by isolating Dicumeral, pierces to the heart of the mystery in mighty quick time, and thereafter we accompany our fair Dicumeral back to the big city, where she is forced to endure for many weary years the scorn of the old men and the impulsive advances of the young, finally of course to win through to stardom and be hailed as the Wonder Drug of 1946. Unfortunately, once she leaves the clear atmosphere of the Middle West our heroine becomés sadly typecast, and at the end her praises-‘"used with startling success," "greatest discovery of medical science"-are likely to be confused with those of the patent medicines whose virtues the Drama of Medicine extols,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 391, 20 December 1946, Page 10
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209"Wonder Drug" New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 391, 20 December 1946, Page 10
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