We Take to Bed is a novel based on Marshall McClintock's personal experiences curing in Saranac Lake. It was published in 1931. McClintock and his wife Helene came to Saranac Lake after she was diagnosed with tuberculosis in Cleveland. Marshall was later treated for tuberculosis.
Eva Leah Levin, a patient, wrote the following "poem" in her copy, along with a key to the true identity of the characters.
Poor little fly upon the wall,
Ain't you got no t.b. at all?
Ain't you got no gaffky test?
Ain't you got a Heise chest?
Poor little fly!
Dr. Lewis Orton = Dr. Lawrason Brown
Dr. John Croly = Dr. Hayes (assistant to Lawrason Brown)
Molkoff = Dr. Strashimir A. Petroff (head of lab)
Dr. Wyman = Dr. Fred Heise (res. physician)
Dr. Krause = Dr. Steidle (John Henry) (asst. res. phys.)
Cambon = Sampson (x-ray)
Marguerite Smith = Anita Jones (now Mrs. Steidle)
Mary Schliesser = Carol Fisher (lab)
White = Dick Libby (x-ray lab)
Browning = Dr. Wilson (nose & throat man)
Dr. Motoser = Dr. Wilson (surgeon)
Colonel Digby = Jim Higgins (bus driver)
Lizette Beagon, brunette = Dorothy Diment (Petroff's sec. from Madison)
Dr. Sawyer = Dr. E. R. Baldwin
Kate Jones = Marjorie Smith (lab)
Carl Martin = Frank Cooper (lab-chem.)
Tom Carter = Bill Steenken (lab)
Jarry Dooley = Tommy Rooney
also, Miss Deckland = Mary Prescott
