Word: sabath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year ago this month, Dr. Leon D. Sabath '52, associate professor of Medicine, collaborated with Dr. Agneta Phillipson and Dr. David Charles in publishing a study of possible substitutes for penicillin in The New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Leonard D. Berman, assistant professor of Pathology, also worked on the experiments but was not an author of the paper...
...some reason, publication of the Sabath-Berman paper prompted an investigation of the case early this year, and the D.A. emerged with indictments in April...
Charles, Phillipson, Berman and Sabath were all charged with "illegal dissection." During the investigation, lawmen also turned up what they saw as incriminating evidence against another doctor, Kenneth Edelin, the chief resident obstetrician at Boston City Hospital, where the allegedly illegal experiment was performed...
Ever since the Supreme Court struck down restrictive state abortion laws in 1973, antiabortionists have been seeking ways to attack the decision. Last June they found an opportunity. Three Boston City Hospital researchers - Drs. Agneta Philipson, L.D. Sabath and David Charles - described in the New England Journal of Medicine their experiments to determine how effectively two antibiotics designed to treat congenital syphilis passed through the placenta from mother to fetus. To get their results, they had administered the drugs to women who had come to the hospital for abortions and then measured the levels of the medicines in the aborted...
...indictments shocked doctors. "I just can't believe that I've been arrested, fingerprinted and mug shot for trying to find a way to prevent congenital syphilis," says Dr. Sabath. Hospital personnel were equally upset. Staff protests forced B.C.H. trustees to reverse their decision to suspend Edelin...