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August 30, 2013
Strange But True!
Q. Who has been one of the more surprising “guinea pig” groups in historic medical experimentation?
A. The doctors themselves, who have been famously known to take some of their own test medicines to see if they would work, says Clifford A. Pickover in “The Medical Book.” This is known as “medical self-experimentation,” or MSE. Early in the 20th century, doctors working under U.S. Army surgeon Walter Reed tested the theory that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes by allowing the insects to bite them freely. “One physician died from the experiments.”
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