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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Practically as momentous was another report by other Rockefeller Institute investigators in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. Drs. Christopher Howard Andrewes and Richard Edwin Shope found that a virus which affects rabbits changes its effects for no known cause. Some inoculations cause tumors, some inflammation. If the same virus can cause one result in one creature and another result in another creature, possibly other viruses mutate likewise...
Under California's penal code, any person who "unlawfully and maliciously deprives a human being of a member of his body, or disables, disfigures or renders it useless" is guilty of mayhem, punishable by one to 14 years' imprisonment. Last week in San Francisco, Drs. Tilton Edwin Tillman and Samuel George Boyd were arrested for mayhem, released on bail. On the ground that she was mentally incompetent, Dr. Tillman advised and Dr. Boyd had performed an operation sterilizing Ann Cooper Hewitt, 21, great-granddaughter of the late great Philanthropist Peter Cooper, granddaughter of the late great Statesman Abram...
...sterilization. What surgical procedure had been used remained publicly in doubt. Commonest techniques of female sterilization are to remove the ovaries or to tie off or cauterize the Fallopian tubes. Ordinarily an abdominal incision is involved, though cauterization may be accomplished dangerously by entrance through the uterus. Drs. Tillman & Boyd stoutly maintained that they had respectively recommended and performed sterilization because Daughter Hewitt was feebleminded, declared their action was an everyday occurrence. "I didn't worry about the legal aspects of the thing," said Surgeon Boyd, "figuring a mother had the right to request such an operation, since...
After San Francisco legal authorities had suggested that they might have to show medical grounds for the operation, affidavits by Drs. Tillman & Boyd were discovered in New Jersey which asserted that after they had Daughter Hewitt on the operating table for an appendectomy, they discovered serious disturbances of her other organs which necessitated sterilization. Surgeon Boyd admitted that only a few weeks ago he had inserted in his private record of the case the words "organs infantile." Daughter Hewitt's attorney wanted to know why, if only an appendectomy was anticipated, Surgeon Boyd had made his incision...
After 48 hours of scopolamine, Drs. Klingmann & Everts stop its effects by using the antagonistic drug, pilocarpine which stimulates sweating and salivary and pancreatic secretions. After five doses of pilocarpine the patient "is mentally clear in every respect," and cannot recall any physical or mental distress. He has no desire for morphine, but has a healthy appetite. After six to eight weeks of body buildup, helped along by small doses of scopolamine and big doses of mental hygiene, patients are cured. Most stay cured...