Jerry consults Dr. Quack's medicine book and does a number of unorthodox treatments to the now hypochondriacal cat, such as placing a stethoscope next to a ticking alarm clock to intensify Tom's apparent heartbeat and setting off the alarm shortly afterwards or testing Tom's reflexes by almost bludgeoning the cat with a hammer or shoving a thermometer in Tom's mouth, where (out of Tom's view), Jerry holds a cigarette lighter underneath the thermometer, causing the temperature to rise, expanding the thermometer, such that it explodes.