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Dr. Scaper had only vaguely heard of the old strain
of Q Fever, which had first been identified in Australia
in 1937, long after he finished medical school. His
ignorance surprised Dr. Deeds, and his willingness to
confess it surprised her even more. They discussed all
the other information there was to seek. Blood and
sputum and stool tests and chick embryo cultures
needed to be done so that specialists could look for
what they'd been trained to recognize if they saw it, as
Dr. Scaper had been trained to recognize measles and
whooping cough. Dr. Deeds argued with the old man
that he should not yield to Jack and Peggy Strummer's
refusal to have an autopsy performed on their daughter,
Joy. It was crucial to examine the lungs and the heart
valves; especially since complete autopsies had not
been carried out on any of the similar victims.
But he said no. "The Strummers refused at the time,
and they just aren't going to feel any different now. And
I'm not about to browbeat them into accepting what
feels to them like mutilating their girl."
Here the two physicians differed in their priorities.
Dr. Scaper wanted not to lose Winslow Abernathy or