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Roy Cohn's doctor, whom he has been going to since 1958. Diagnoses Roy with [http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/ AIDS]. Henry is almost considered a small character in the play. He is Act 1, Scene 9. The scene starts off with information about the virus. Henry tells Roy, "Nobody knows what causes it. And nobody knows how to cure it. The best theory is that we blame a retrovirus, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. It's presence is made known to us by the useless antibodies which appear in reaction to its entrance into the bloodstream through a cut, or an orifice. The antibodies are powerless to protect the body against it... (Kushner 48). Henry diagnoses Roy with the disease after removing lesions called [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000661.htm Kaposi's sarcomas]. | [[Image:James Cromwell.jpg|thumb|right|James Cromwell as Henry]] Roy Cohn's doctor, whom he has been going to since 1958. Diagnoses Roy with [http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/ AIDS]. Henry is almost considered a small character in the play. He is Act 1, Scene 9. The scene starts off with information about the virus. Henry tells Roy, "Nobody knows what causes it. And nobody knows how to cure it. The best theory is that we blame a retrovirus, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. It's presence is made known to us by the useless antibodies which appear in reaction to its entrance into the bloodstream through a cut, or an orifice. The antibodies are powerless to protect the body against it... (Kushner 48). Henry diagnoses Roy with the disease after removing lesions called [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000661.htm Kaposi's sarcomas]. | ||
Henry also tells Roy, "...And you have a pronounced swelling of glands in your neck, groin, and armpits-[http://www.iapm.net/medicalcase_old.htm lymphadnopathy] is another sign. And you have [http://www.dentalcare.com/soap/intermed/oralcan.htm oral candidiasis] and maybe a little more [http://www.davidlnelson.md/Fingernail_fungus.htm fungus] under the fingernails of two digits on your right hand..." (Kushner 48). Henry is a character that is either afraid of Roy, loyal to Roy, or indifferent to Roy. Henry knows that Roy is a gay man in the closet. In one part during the scene Roy gets angry at Henry for telling him that he has a homosexual/drug addict disease. Henry replies, "Roy, you have been seeing me since 1958. Apart from facelifts I have treated you for everything from syphilis...to venereal warts. In your rectum. which you may have gotten from a whore in Dallas, but it wasn't a female whore" (Kushner 50). In the end Henry writes down that Roy has liver cancer, but he puts Roy on the AIDS level of the hospital. There is some evidence to suggest that Henry is afraid of Roy, and some evidence to suggest that he can't wait for Roy to die. | Henry also tells Roy, "...And you have a pronounced swelling of glands in your neck, groin, and armpits-[http://www.iapm.net/medicalcase_old.htm lymphadnopathy] is another sign. And you have [http://www.dentalcare.com/soap/intermed/oralcan.htm oral candidiasis] and maybe a little more [http://www.davidlnelson.md/Fingernail_fungus.htm fungus] under the fingernails of two digits on your right hand..." (Kushner 48). Henry is a character that is either afraid of Roy, loyal to Roy, or indifferent to Roy. Henry knows that Roy is a gay man in the closet. In one part during the scene Roy gets angry at Henry for telling him that he has a homosexual/drug addict disease. Henry replies, "Roy, you have been seeing me since 1958. Apart from facelifts I have treated you for everything from syphilis...to venereal warts. In your rectum. which you may have gotten from a whore in Dallas, but it wasn't a female whore" (Kushner 50). In the end Henry writes down that Roy has liver cancer, but he puts Roy on the AIDS level of the hospital. There is some evidence to suggest that Henry is afraid of Roy, and some evidence to suggest that he can't wait for Roy to die. | ||
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Henry is a character that really spells out the hatred that even professionals have for Roy. | Henry is a character that really spells out the hatred that even professionals have for Roy. | ||
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