Doctor, Feel My Pulse

Vera Vague is a hypochondriac in this Columbia short. After going through the usual Jules White gags like spraying herself with red ink, she winds up thinking madman Jack Norton is a doctor; when he tells her she is going to die, her husband, George Lewis, and friends decide to get her so angry she will give up imaginary illnesses.

It's a remake of Charley Chase's 1937 Columbia short, CALLING ALL DOCTORS. While the first half of this one, set in Vera's office, is pretty standard stuff for director Jules White (i.e., I don't care for it), the latter portions are very good. Bud Jamison, as a doctor who gets his stethoscope mixed up, is an example of the simple slapstick comedian running a gag perfectly.