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...ethic of that ancient oath "by Apollo the Physician" is one that all doctors have sworn to and still swear by. Do they live up to it? Not always, is the grim conclusion of Harvard's Dr. Henry K. Beecher after a ten-year study of medical experiments recently performed on human subjects. Dr. Beecher has no quarrel with the physician who tries a new drug or a new operation for the benefit of a patient; he is concerned about experiments that are designed for the ultimate good of society in general but may well do harm...
Unsuspecting Hundreds. "Since World War II," says Dr. Beecher in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, there has been "increasing employment of patients as experimental subjects when it must be apparent that they would not have been available if they had been truly aware of the uses that would be made of them. It seems obvious that further hundreds have not known that they were the subjects of an experiment." Dr. Beecher charges that "grave consequences" have been suffered as the result of such work. In no case does he name the hospital or doctors involved; in no case...
...Although, says Beecher, "it is known that rheumatic fever can usually be prevented" by giving penicillin to treat the recurrent "strep throats" that can cause rheumatic fever and heart disease, 109 sick U.S. servicemen were denied penicillin; two developed acute rheumatic fever, and one acute nephritis. In a related study, 500 U.S. servicemen were denied penicillin and given either sulfadiazine or no drug at all in order to compare the effects. The comparison, Beecher suggests, was distressingly clear: at least 25 of the 500 developed rheumatic fever, and one medical officer put the number as high...
...imagination of the American public as no other U.S. painter had before. In the 1850s, his eloquent flair for embodying the nation's grand notion of "manifest destiny" made his paintings public events. On one day alone in 1857, Horace Greeley, George Bancroft, George Ripley, Henry Ward Beecher and Charles A. Dana were among the crowds that filed past Church's Niagara. Two years later, the throngs that flocked to his studio to see The Heart of the Andes were so dense that policemen were required to keep pedestrian traffic moving. The price it commanded...
...punished with a red-hot poker thrust through the profane tongue. In 1900 a New York judge committed an actress to Bellevue for smoking cigarettes. In 1905 the U.S. had more pianos and cottage organs than bathtubs. Mickey Mantle's testimonial versatility pales beside that of Henry Ward Beecher, the preacher, who in the 19th century endorsed numerous products, including soap, sewing machines and trusses. Once, nice girls wore black silk mittens to breakfast, and gentlemen kept their hats on indoors. And, in polite company, gentlemen referred to chickens as boy-birds and girl-birds, and never used...