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...pleased that the University appears to be approaching this matter expeditiously and with appropriate seriousness. Archivists are currently probing through the files of the Harvard physician involved in the experiments, Dr. Clemens E. Benda, and Harvard is cooperating fully with state and federal agencies investigating what exactly took place at Fernald, who was responsible, and who was affected...
...panel will also cull Benda's collected papers, which are stored at Harvard's Countway Medical Library. Judith Messerle, Countway's head librarian, says the library is currently hiring an independent archivist to assist the investigation and separate out patient records from the 27 boxes of files...
...Some of Benda's records will be sent to Fernald to aid the state Department of Mental Retardation in its investigation. But University officials are still unable to say whether any files have yet left Cambridge...
...Benda was highly respected in the medicalcommunity of his time. He held many officialpositions on national medical boards and was apioneer in the detection and treatment of Down'ssyndrome...
After graduating from medical school in Berlinin 1922, Benda practiced psychiatry in Germanyuntil 1935. He came America in 1936 to become theclinical director of the Wrenthem State School inWrenthem, Mass...