Yellow Fever Dormitory Yellow fever epidemics struck the United States repeatedly in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Biomedical research in Germany was considered the most advanced in the world — both in its development

The Carnegie Institution established the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, under the directorship of

Richard Strong, MD, a professor of tropical medicine at Harvard, conducted cholera experiments on 24 prisoners in

Luther Emmett Holt, a professor of children’s disease at Columbia University, was accused of conducting 1,000 tuberculin

Hideyo Noguchi, MD, of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research injected a syphilis preparation into 146 children

In Pennsylvania, 146 children were inoculated with syphilis in several hospitals (Sierra, 2011); and in Philadelphia’s St.

Dr. Leo Stanley, chief surgeon at San Quentin Prison for forty years, performed a wide variety of

In a lawsuit involving the Society of NY Hospital, Justice Benjamin Cardozo ruled : “Every human being of

“Leaders of the American Medical Association briefly considered amending the organization’s code of ethics to include the

Joseph Goldberger, MD, under orders of the US Public Health Office induces Pellagra, a debilitating fatal disease

Alfred Hess & Mildred Fish used orphans as guinea pigs in studies testing dietary factors in rickets

Under the undue influence of Harvard and other Ivy League eugenicists, the U.S. enacted the Immigration Restriction