All language subtitles for [English (auto-generated)] Bramwell _ A Woman Doctor Defies Victorian Society _ Full British Drama (1995) [DownSub.com]

Heat. Heat.

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Now then, gentlemen, what we have here

is a young woman of some 4 and 20 years,

the mother of a 4-month-old baby

delivered by Cesarian section. She has

been brought to us because she is

tearful,

dejected, afraid and no longer tends the

child. But in this the golden age of

surgery, we can restore her equilibrium

with one decisive and radical operation,

an ovarctomy,

the removal of both her ovaries to calm

her hysteria and temper her moods. Are

there any questions?

Have you any idea what the mortality

rate is from this operation, sir?

>> Yes, miss. Thank you. I have.

>> According to recent papers on female

melancholia, with respect.

>> Yes.

>> The organs you are going to remove are

probably healthy.

>> So, we're wasting our time trying to

help this poor creature.

>> Of course not, serpent. Some believe

that surgery may not be the most

appropriate or beneficial.

>> Thank you, Miss Bramwell. We are

grateful.

Now to continue, gentlemen,

the ovarianctomy.

>> Damnation. What a nurse.

>> To the artery. What an artist.

>> Who performed this bloody cesarian?

>> You did, sir.

Her pulse is racing. God above body

anything.

>> I have to start reducing.

>> Keep her under. She's just

keep

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dinner.

>> Why not? Where should we go?

>> Had enough for one day.

A perfectly healthy young woman lies

dead.

>> Melancholic, not perfectly healthy.

>> So if you're less than happy and

fulfilled, we should chop off your

testicles, Mr. Marshall.

>> Dr. Brownwell,

me a married man.

>> Do you think he'll do a ward round?

>> You're a glutton for punishment.

>> They'll never appoint a woman physician,

much less a subject.

>> Oh, but they will one day.

I didn't know it was yours.

>> My beautiful Bessie.

>> Looks fine. Grateful.

>> Thank you very much, Mike.

It's nearly 6:00, Father. I hope that's

your last patient for the day.

>> It is. That man was at death's door when

he first came to me. Heart in a shocking

state,

lips blue,

hands shaking.

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Private practice can be very satisfying.

As you know, if you left that hospital

to work at home.

>> I'm not interested in spoiled ladies

with imaginary ailments.

I saw my first boy at 10, my last po

gentleman at five. In between I earned a

small fortune.

>> Shameless.

>> Certainly

>> not even a trace of guilt.

>> Not a jot. Wheel him and rob him blind.

>> You don't convince me, father.

>> Go to your room, miss. Turn yourself

from a foul and common doctor into a

lady if she knows how. an 18-in waist

and a fainting fit over the dessert. I

think I can manage that.

>> As I wield them in and sit them down, I

smile at them and say, "And how are you

today? You're looking pale today." And

they seem to sigh and wish to die. And

Dy died.

And they quack who rob the bank at Monty

Caro.

>> Kate

Katy.

>> Miss Elena.

>> I've got them again.

>> You haven't. Shh. Your father knows

you'll go mad.

>> He'll know soon enough you'll have given

them to all of us again.

>> Victoria,

>> you're grander each time I see you.

>> Elena, they're here. I can't think

what's taking her so long. How are the

newlyweds? Robert,

>> we're an old married couple. Edward

spends more time with his parliamentary

secretary than he does with me. My wife

can't understand that the chances of the

excheer has to fit his domestic life in

with his duties, not the other way

around.

>> Oh, never mind all this. We have

something to tell you.

>> Don't always be in such a hurry, Vicki.

In 6 months of marriage, I've aged 20

years. Can't wait for anything. I shall

be a happy man when nature slows her

down.

>> Edward, what we to tell him? Where's

Ellena?

>> Here I am.

>> We're having a child. Isn't that

wonderful? Or tell them, Edward.

>> You already have. But we are, my dear

fellow. You're too bright and too pretty

to hide yourself away. When Edward and I

are in our new home, you'll come and see

every eligible man I can snare for you.

>> I will not. Just because you found

fulfillment in marriage and motherhood.

>> Fulfillment. It does have its

disadvantages, you know, being in this

delicate condition.

>> Sickness, the dreadful irritation, the

awful, awful.

Have you seen this?

>> It's beautiful. A gift from Edward to

mark the end of our honeymoon.

>> Well, what's it like being a real

hospital doctor?

>> I'm not yet. They let me assist, that's

all. And that's only because father goes

to the right clubs.

What irritation, Victoria.

>> Oh, you know,

some nights I'm so uncomfortable I could

cry.

I wondered. I have to see Edward's

physician next week. I wondered if you

could

>> if I could what? Examine you.

>> I haven't even met him. He's bound to be

old and grand.

>> You're a friend, not a patient.

>> Well, if you could just do whatever it

is you doctors do, at least then I'd

know what to expect. We'll be here a

whole week. Do say you'll squeeze me in.

Please. Please. Oh,

>> Vicki, I'm not sure it's a good idea.

>> It is. It is. Dinner's ready soon

enough.

>> Thank you, Kate. And you do know you'll

be the child's godmother.

>> Do you wear a frock coat for your

doctor? Will you be all gruff and call

me my dear?

>> Will you ever grow up?

If we could have some forceps, nurse,

Dr. Bramwell, something to clean this

slough away.

>> You're supposed to follow in my wake,

not forge ahead of me, Miss Bramwell.

>> It's her, but I was just cleaning it.

Well, I say you ladies have a gentler

touch than us men, and when I operate,

I'll have clean flesh to work on.

We'll have this foot off, shall we?

>> So, Herbert,

>> I've never had the opportunity to treat

a crush injury. I wondered, might I

attempt the care of this patient? Not

suggesting you take over my theater.

>> If you would allow it, Sir Herbert, I'd

like to remove just the affected toes.

Here,

>> try to save the foot.

>> Flying in the face of scientific

knowledge again, Miss Bramwell.

>> I know the risks, but if you would trust

me,

>> I just say you'll do well enough. Nurse,

I hand Mr. Bentley over to the

ministrations of this young woman. Don't

worry, I'll keep an eye on you.

>> Thank you, sir.

>> He's in a wonderful mood. Lady Kora

Someday or others, giving him a new

ward.

>> Lady Corora Peters, one of the Barkshire

Peters. Her husband's left 200 a year to

be used for the benefit of the poor.

>> Elevated circles you move in. I don't

mind him chopping off me foot, miss, if

it needs chopping.

>> I don't mind him chopping off your foot

if it needs chopping. And I'm a doctor,

not a miss. I'll see you tomorrow.

>> Your bath is ready, Dr. Bramwell.

>> Thank you, Kayen. Just finishing.

>> They let her go to guy's hospital this

afternoon.

>> The boy ticket.

It's 7:00, sir.

>> I'm coming, Kate. I'm coming.

>> Of course, he says he doesn't mind which

it is, and I certainly don't. But a boy

would be nice from the point of view of

an heir. Victoria.

Victoria, I am impressed. You sound just

like a doctor.

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

You aren't having a baby.

You're not carrying a child?

I'm so sorry.

You're sure?

Shall I get you a glass of water?

>> I must be. I can feel it. When you long

for a child, you can convince yourself.

Edward will be so disappointed. He'll

get over it. He's besotted with you

>> now. Yes, but he could be so distant.

Oh god, I failed him.

>> You haven't, Vicki. This isn't your

fault. We've been married 6 months. 6

months is nothing. Edward's 45. I'm

useless at everything I do.

>> Don't, Vicki, don't blame yourself like

this.

>> I thought this was the one thing I could

manage. It's no wonder he humors me as

if I was a child. He's so good and

clever and I'm so mean.

>> Victoria, listen to me. This isn't your

fault.

He's given you an infection.

He's given you syphilis.

>> Do you know what syphilis is?

>> By the skin of my teeth. The speaker

grabbed me. I could not get away.

>> You're not the only one. The ladies are

still making themselves pretty.

>> I shall be ready in 2 minutes. I

promise.

>> A knock on Ellen's door. Remind her that

she's my hostess. If this is a guest,

>> I like to arrive first to hear the very

best of the gossip as it's revealed.

>> Lady Peters,

>> Edward, you're not changed.

>> I haven't seen my sister for 6 months,

and her first words are a rebuke. Cora,

>> you horrible boy. This dinner is in your

honor. Now go upstairs this minute and

change.

>> I'm going.

>> Dr. Branwell, am I dreadfully early?

Some people say that the disease remains

forever dormant. others. Vicki,

discoveries are being made about

syphilis every day. Really?

>> So, I caught it from Edward.

And how did he get it?

That's difficult.

The same way.

Now, I know, but a man of Edward's age

isn't a virgin. Well, forget how he got

it, Vicki. Think about the future.

There are treatments. I'll find out

everything I can about the very latest

thinking.

>> Tori, it's me.

>> I can't. I can't.

>> Open the door, darling. Can't do my

time.

>> I'm sorry, Edward. Vicki is not well.

>> She's not well. What's the matter with

her?

>> She's very upset. She won't be at

dinner.

>> Well, not since she was fine.

The child. She's not lost the child.

>> There was no child. Oh god.

She's not miscarried, is she?

>> No.

No.

You didn't give her a child.

>> I see.

>> Victoria doesn't want to see you.

She's in tears. She's very distressed.

Please tell father I'll be down

directly.

>> You haven't told her.

>> Surely you realized you were putting her

in danger.

>> What have you told my wife?

>> The guests are waiting.

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My husband left a property in Thrift

Street and a small trust fund to benefit

the poor and sick. And suddenly every

doctor I meet Oh, apart from you,

Robert, has a worthy cause to support.

>> We're a bad lot us doctors.

Apart of course that is from my daughter

who devotes herself entirely to the East

London Hospital and never considers

money.

>> You remind me so much of your mother.

She was a strong character too, wasn't

she, Dr. Bramwell? Such a shame you

never knew her.

>> I have her portrait. She was so

exquisite, so wonderful.

>> Yes, she was

and headstrong and determined.

She would be very proud of you, I'm

sure.

It must be very difficult work.

>> Not really. They allow me to do so

little. I'm there on sufference only.

But I hope to get a job one day. Excuse

me.

>> Edward, do continue.

>> Where are you going?

>> Excuse me.

>> I forbid you to leave this house. You're

hysterical. Go to your room.

>> It's late. Where will you go? You've no

cap.

>> Keep out of it. We'll talk about this in

the morning.

>> I won't stay. It keeps going around at

my head. We must have caught this foul

thing.

>> Shut up. Get me a key. Get me a key.

>> How could you do that to me?

>> I've done nothing. You're making a fool

of yourself. You

>> can't lock her in.

>> You have a Roman streets, would you?

>> Don't worry, Vicki. I'll sit with you.

Edward, do return to the guests, please.

I promise you shall not go anywhere.

>> And mind what you say. Keep your

dangerous little knowledge to yourself.

>> It's all right.

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Thank you.

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But thank you so much.

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>> I didn't intend to tell her. She was

blaming herself when the blame lay with

someone else. She didn't catch it from

the sheets. Father,

you must have known you had syphilis.

had it and was cured of it.

>> Whom did you consult?

>> Several good men. I was advised to wait

two years ears until the symptoms had

subsided. I did. Contrary to your

obvious opinion, I care about her

deeply.

>> Edward, I'm sorry.

>> Well, it's not the end of the world. It

will not last forever. For God's sake,

you're making a great issue out of this.

>> And what if she had been pregnant? Have

you any idea what her syphilis could

have done to the baby? Tell him.

We have a boy who comes to the hospital

every day. His mother parks him in the

reception hall while she washes the

floor. He's deaf. He's blind. He's

unable to understand anything but the

food in his mouth and a hand leading

him. His mother had syphilis when she

conceived him.

But even if Victoria avoids childbirth,

there can be terrible consequences.

>> That's enough. I shall do whatever I can

for my wife, and I shall do it without

your interference. I shall get the best

medical care available, without the

terrible distress you've caused her. I

trust you'll ensure this matter goes no

further.

>> Yes, of course. You have our word.

>> Thank you. I'll take yours.

Good night.

>> Good night, Edward. I am so very sorry.

I had no choice, father. I did it for

the best.

>> Had you no thought for her emotional

vulnerability,

>> rather more than her new husband has.

Obviously,

>> you had no business examining her in the

first place. And having done so, you had

no right to tell her what you did.

>> Someone had to tell her.

>> Yes, but not you.

Should have spoken to me.

Managed the whole thing so much better.

Good God, Helena. If he wishes, he could

have you struck off for this

>> and risk his reputation

>> and victorious. That is what you're

playing with here, miss.

>> One word of this and her life will be

changed forever. His life, his career.

>> Her life is changed. Vicki may never be

cured.

>> Don't always assume that you're the only

one that cares. Edward will do

everything he possibly can for her, as

will her physician.

Let's just hope they do it with a little

more understanding than you've just

shown.

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That big bastard passed me on to her

like I was a bag of chitlins.

>> He's a butcher. That's s.

>> Yeah, well, at least a butcher cuts

clean.

>> I'll give them the cocaine now, but you

must be ready to cut in 2 minutes, no

later. It'll numb the pain, but not for

long. So, be quick.

>> You'll be fine.

>> Right, nurse. Please remove the

dressing.

>> I've done it, Mr. Bramwell.

I spent an hour dressing it yesterday

and today you cover it with a dirty

blanket. The blankets are washed every

month, miss doctor. Right, we'll just

have to wash it again.

>> Mr. Bentley, another drink, please.

>> Lysol and lint, please. Nurse.

Please, Dr. Marshall,

>> have the knife readiness.

>> This knife sharpness only wants to be

sharp.

>> Oh, bleeding need line.

Poor old piggies.

Plates of meat. This little piggy went

to market.

>> The black knife.

>> One plate of meat from now on then, eh?

Or one and a half. Enough for a working

man. Chance of a fire.

This little piggy stayed home.

This little piggy had Oh,

>> no. No. Nearly died.

>> None.

And this little piggy had roast beef and

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his little piggy was gone. Just like

that. We played together for four.

>> Lovely job.

>> A joke. Kidney chops and a nice slice of

beans. Jin and Lordam as used by the

best poets and men of letters.

>> You can start now, my lady. I'm ready.

>> All done, Mr. Bentley. Just the

embroidery left.

>> Oh, nice bit embroidery. Yeah. Give us

the Lord's Prayer. That's always good

for a laugh, that one. Give us our daily

bread.

>> Pleeding out.

>> How you getting on, doctor?

>> I've nearly finished, sir. I've moved

three toes.

>> Oh, so a butter on it too. Baggering

about sudden det.

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>> I shall harden myself against such

sights.

You won't be plagued by a faint-hearted

widow. I promise. You provide the ward

and the finances. We'll take care of

everything else.

>> I don't want you to take care of

everything else. I I want to become

involved to do some good. Ah, M.

Bramwell. That poor man.

>> A very lucky man. Dr. Bramwell saved his

foot.

>> We hope this young lady has novel ideas

about medicine and surgery.

>> I just try to preserve whatever's

healthy. The important thing is that you

were given the opportunity to try

to learn

>> and that Mr. Bentley will return to

work. He has a large family.

>> Oh, they all have large families. My

dear lady, let me help you.

>> But I felt queasy. I'm not an invalid. I

do hope you find a position in this

hospital, Elena.

Perhaps in my new ward.

>> Perhaps. Perhaps. Who knows? Now to the

river and the hospital regata.

>> Who are the oppositions? She's very

popular with the gentlemen.

>> So would you be if you'd award of money

and award to bestow and whoever took

your fancy. Come on. You can watch me

roll. Cheer on your fellow doctors.

>> I will not. They don't cheer me on.

>> It's no good declaring war in the army

you want to join. Break into their ranks

from the inside. Watch me learn how to

slip in without even being noticed.

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Come on, Marshall. Get your idle bones

down here before we're disqualified.

Damn here. You made me late. You look

after Bessie.

>> Remember to cheer.

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Watch out, doctor.

Come on, doctor. Ride the damn thing.

Cheer him on.

>> Come on, Marshall. Come on, Marshall.

>> Come on, East London. Come on Marshall

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Royals.

>> Come on the East London.

Come on the East Lord.

Come on.

Come on the East. Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Go on, Marsh. You can do it.

Leave me alone.

>> Mr. Neville, Lord to a secretary.

>> Robert. Robert.

It's no good. She won't have me in the

same room.

>> Well, perhaps have you spoke to her

rather than shouted.

>> What on earth have you done to her?

>> I've ordered a carriage to take her to

the country. I've employed a nurse. I've

engaged the best position in London, and

she accuses me of cruelty. Elena, don't

you make the situation any worse.

>> If that woman isn't packed and ready

within 30 minutes,

>> Lord Edward.

>> Neville, welcome to Bedum.

>> He won't touch me. I'll never have it

touch me again.

>> Please, please calm down.

>> Oh, Edward mustn't be connected with the

flightest whiff of scandal. So, I have

to be bound away in case I say anything.

>> Sit down.

>> No, I will not. He says it isn't

anything, this disease, that I'm being

silly. Silly. No word to bring.

What sort of a woman would give him this

disease? What sort of dirty, slubbly

woman like you? It respects no one.

>> I've decided I'm leaving him. You don't

mean it. The servants will hear.

>> Good. Shall I tell them why the

chancellor's wife is being sent away

from London?

>> So, Herbert.

>> Good day, ladies.

Because

I was afraid I had a common wash house

here and not a lady's room.

How are you?

>> Not well, sir.

>> So I've been told. Well, these little

things are sent to try us. Now, if you

could just loosen your collar.

>> I don't want to be examined.

>> No. No.

You're getting yourself into a tizzy.

And there really is no need

and no need for you either, Miss Brahmo.

>> I'd like Elellanena to stay.

>> No, no, Lady Casters. No,

no.

Female hysteria, overheated blood

brought on by the long journey,

disappointment over the pregnancy and

the unfortunate manner of telling her.

However, we are somewhat calmer now and

have agreed a compromise.

>> We shall live with my sister until our

townhouse is ready. Victoria is

perfectly amunable.

>> She barely knows, Lady Peters. I'll wait

until the carriage and the nurse arrive,

but then I must attend to my duties.

Meanwhile, I must be absolutely assured

of confidentiality.

>> I've already given you my word. I'm very

sorry about this, Edward.

>> Dr. Braml,

Miss Braml,

I'll call on Lady Peters in a couple of

days. We'll soon have your wife well

again.

Raml

to worry about Lord Edward. I just you

>> Poor Victoria. I can't believe she wants

to stay with anyone from Edward's

family.

>> It's none of your business what she

wants.

>> You're right.

I'm sorry.

>> Whiskey.

>> Yes. Yes.

Good God.

Here I am in the middle of the day

watching my daughter pour herself a

large whiskey and barely turning her

hair.

I must have failed you.

>> No, you haven't. Really?

>> Your mother would have kept you under

more control,

softened you.

Medicine's a hard world. It's making you

hard.

Perhaps you'd be better off out of it.

Oh, she'll have it in a minute.

>> Use the crutch to lean on while you take

a step with your good foot.

>> She'll have it in a minute.

>> Right. Listen to me.

Lean on your crutch. Go on then. Lean on

it. Now remain leaning on it and move

the other foot a step.

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I shall have it in a minute.

>> He's got a sort of swing. Doctor, swing

your leg.

>> I'm not Beth. I shall have it in a

minute.

>> Watch

as I walk along the blo with an

independent air. The ladies all declare

there goes a millionaire.

Now you have to do it with me.

>> As I walk along the line with an

independent air, the ladies all declare.

There goes a millionire

>> bleeding useless. You should have taken

mine off, miss. Not to worry. I'll shall

have you in a minute.

>> He seems to be recovering very well.

>> So should me, lady. the attention he's

getting.

>> I think you're going to have to talk to

Mr.

>> Sir Herbert.

>> Aha.

Ah, would be surgeon. How's the foot?

>> Very good, sir. Sir,

>> do

>> you know you've made a particular hit

with Lady Peters? She thinks you're full

of vitality. Are you?

>> I hope so, sir. Sir Herbert, I must

thank you for your patience yesterday

with Lady Cares. I'd behaved very

hastily and unwisely.

>> Oh my dear, the young are ever trying to

run before they can walk.

She'll be quite all right now.

>> I'm sure. I wondered, Sir Herbert. Would

you remember me too?

>> Yes, certainly. Of course. Oh, you'll be

there, won't you, Dr. Marsham? Tuesday.

I need an anesthetist.

>> An anistthetist? I can't do it without

one. She's not a washable one, you know.

>> Do what? Sir Harctomy,

the chancellor's wife.

>> No, Vicki.

>> Anything for it? Whip out her ovus. But

>> why? She has syphilis.

>> She has a minor infection brought on, no

doubt, by the water, the broad.

>> No, she, you know, she has syphilis.

>> Ridiculous.

>> Lady Cast is near athetic and

hysterical. No more than that. And

variactomy

will soon calm her down.

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>> I'd let you see her with pleasure, but

she's resting.

She's to have an operation tomorrow.

>> I know. Last week, Sir Herbert performed

the same operation on a woman of 24.

>> Yes.

She died.

An ovarianctomy is a terrible thing.

>> Oh, come now. My brother may be

selfcentered, but he'd never do anything

terrible. And Sir Herbert

>> would say and do anything to remain in

your good books. After all, you have a

ward to bestow.

>> It's a bleak picture of medical ethics.

They've brought her here where she sees

no one but you to have the one operation

which guarantees that she will never

present Edward with a deformed child.

How ethical is that? It also means that

Edward's secret is safe forever and that

his dazzling career can go from strength

to strength.

I thought I heard you, Elellanena. No

one told me.

Don't overt tire her.

>> Thank you, Lady Peters. I won't.

>> Vicki, what's this about an operation?

>> Sir Herbert says the infection is

nothing and that hysteria has weakened

my heart.

>> Even if that was true, it's no reason to

remove your ovaries.

>> That you've upset me over nothing.

>> Vicki, don't let them lie to you.

They're giving you mercury, aren't they?

Mercury is a treatment for syphilis and

whatever they've told you about the

ovarianctomy.

>> The operation is very popular. They say

all manner of women are having it.

>> All manner of women are dying from it.

>> How do you know? You're not even a

surgeon.

>> It's a stupid and dangerous fashion.

>> I don't believe you.

>> You know I wouldn't lie to you.

>> Stop it. Stop it. There's no one here.

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Huh?

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Woo!

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Mr. Martian, how much would one of these

things cost?

>> Your reputation. Give it here, Miss

Bramwell.

>> And what about your reputation?

If you're not careful, you'll be known

as a fast young man.

I'm sorry, doctor.

>> Yes, nurse.

>> Sir Herbert's left instructions.

>> But I must see my patient.

>> Mr. Bentley is under Sir Herbert again.

>> But why?

His foot.

>> His foot's doing very well, doctor.

Healing nicely. And he's better on his

crutches. I'm sorry. I wish I could let

you in, but I can't.

>> Good morning to you, sister.

>> Why have you banned me from your wards?

>> You were banned from the entire

hospital.

>> Why? What have I done?

>> Do you know where I should be at this

very minute? Operating on Lady Casters.

Thanks to you, she has decided to do

without.

>> I thought she was going ahead of me.

>> So did we. Instead, wherever you go,

tears and tantrums.

>> I merely explained.

>> You tried to explain matters that you

had no business even discussing. She's

not even your patient. You are totally

inexperienced in treating this

condition.

>> I'm a qualified physician. I know about

veneerial disease.

>> You are a lady. You should be ashamed

even to say those words.

You lack

delicacy,

tact,

>> hypocrisy, deceit.

>> This profession has no room for

rampaging females with grand ideas

as much to do with politics and

diplomacy as with the study of disease.

>> No, medicine has nothing to do with

politics. Only a corrupt charlatan would

say it has.

>> You are no longer welcome in this

hospital. A charlatan who butchers his

patients for fat fees and to bolster his

own pathetic reputation.

>> Get out before I have you thrown out.

>> I will not. I'll speak to the governors.

>> Well, the governors are in complete

agreement with me. You are no longer to

be allowed on the wards at any time.

The female brain

being smaller and weaker is not suited

to scientific matters. God made women

for other things than men. Go home to

your father

and find yourself a husband.

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>> Miss Bramwell,

I'm so sorry. They're arrogant fools.

This whole damn place is so choked with

arrogance. Sir Habit's been very unfair.

If you won't tell him, don't tell me.

>> How can I? I need the job.

>> So do I. But that doesn't matter, does

it? A woman doesn't belong in your

world. In your wards, on your bicycles.

Oh, go away, Mr. M.

>> I'd do the same again. The very idea of

an ovariactomy.

>> Quite. I'm not a barbarian, Elena.

I don't agree with hacking into bodies

willy-nilly.

I'm very pleased that Victoria refused.

>> And how will you feel tomorrow if this

becomes public?

>> Well, I hope it doesn't, but if so,

well,

her life is rather more important than a

politician's career

>> or mine.

>> I think maybe it's time that you began

to accept that you have no future at the

East London.

You'll have to be satisfied with private

practice. Oh, no you don't.

>> I know it's hard, but you can always

come in with me.

>> Well, perhaps then Cape me and the whole

damn household can get rid of these

headlights.

>> Father, don't make a joke of it. I want

to work where I'm needed.

>> This is where you're needed.

Besides, if you take some private

patience, we might see a financial

return for your training.

>> I'd rather be a governness.

>> I could.

>> You could also be a cleaner on the

trams, but it might be a bit drastic.

Look,

some ladies who might just accept a

female doctor.

>> Nothing too complicated, I hope.

Toenails, the occasional hot flush.

>> Darling, life's going to be difficult

enough just being a doctor without

looking for hopeless battles to fight

all the time. It makes me exhausted just

watching you.

Now,

indulge an old man.

I guarantee there's not one

hypochondriac amongst them.

>> Gentlemen and our distinguished guests.

Our first operation today is to remedy

an earlier surgical intervention which

was plainly not radical enough.

The patient is a laborer of some 35

years who has received a crush injury to

his right foot. Now last week, instead

of the entire foot being amputated

cleanly, three toes were removed

stupidly. A mistake. Now today, thank

you Dr. Marsham. Before gang green rears

its ugly head, I will ensure that it

finds nowhere to establish itself.

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Elena, I insisted that Edward brought

me.

But so

how are you?

>> How do I look?

>> You look well. I am. Edward is as

attentive as ever, and I am a perfectly

composed lady.

Well, not perfectly perhaps,

but composed enough to realize how

fortunate I am to have a friend like

you.

Edward's accepted you won't have the

operation.

>> Yes.

And I, for my part, have accepted that

some silly little infection is neither

here nor there between man and wife.

A silly little infection, probably from

the water on the continent.

But we've decided not to have a child

for a few years anyway, just to be safe.

>> There's time yet.

>> Yes.

And men will be men.

See how grown up I am?

Oh well.

All's well that ends well.

I saw an advertisement in a woman's

journal and it did seem obvious

there. All I need now is the bicycle.

What do you think?

Be on your father's patience. M. I won't

be a minute.

Rush. It's 10:00. She's not ill. I'll

wait in here.

>> Lady Peters, with a substantial sum of

money to bestow and a world full of

needs, you would think, wouldn't you,

that there'd be some way of bringing the

two together. Would you like a cup of

tea?

Now, I know and you know, that a woman

like me is a red rag to a bull to a

woman like you, and Sir Herbert is no

better. Sorry. He sees me only as some

silly creature to be humored, courted,

flirted with, thinks I understand

nothing,

as you do.

I believe you're not attending the

hospital anymore.

And I am sorry that your Mr. Bentley

lost his foot, his foot, his job, his

pride.

I'm not the only one Sir Herbert rire

his damned spite on.

I'm sorry.

Trousers

and oaths.

Maybe you're more of a match for the

gentleman than they realize.

Now,

I have a proposition to put to you.

Can't see you like that.

>> It's a slum.

>> A slum in a slum.

Tenants, abattoars,

brothel.

This whole area is the halt of criminals

and scum of the city.

>> Well, I shouldn't stand there long,

father, in case they all jump you.

>> Six beds.

kitchen,

bathroom,

and a consulting room. We'll open for

general consultation between 10 and 12.

Those that need admitting

>> surgical cases.

>> Oh, yes. We'll take surgical patients

eventually.

>> Elellanena, for goodness sake, you've

only ever assisted.

>> I'm not the only doctor in London.

>> I'm sure we'll find expertise when we

need it. There's never a shortage of

men.

A woman daring to run an infirmary.

You'll be ridiculed, scorned.

>> Let them scorn me all they like. I

really don't care.

>> You'll be packed out with scamps and

porpers,

scabies,

knits.

>> From my bridge partner. We asked for £5

and she gave us this instead.

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I love you as I never loved before.

Since first I met you on the village

green.

Come to me. Oh, my dream of love is all.

[Music]

I love you as I love you when you were

sweet.

When you were sweet,

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>> Oh, again. Again.

>> I love you as I never loved before.

Since first I met you on the village

green.

Come to me. Oh, my dream of love is all.

I love you as I love you. When you were

sweet.

When you were sweet.

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