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The first experiment conducted was the tuskegee syphilis study beginning in 1932 and ending in 1972 (cite). Followed by the Terre Haute prison experiments from 1943 to 1944. These experiments were conducted and supported by many of the same individuals who would go on to participate in the Guatemalan syphilis experiments only a few years later.

Dr. John Charles Cutler:

Doctor Cutler was a researcher for the USPHS Venereal Diseases Research Laboratory and was charged with exploring the impact of the disease in 1946. His team created a laboratory supplied by the United States military in Guatemala using infected rabbits with syphilis and gonorrhea to explore the effects on humans. Cutler created the protocol of seeing if the infection site of the disease mattered. Cutler and his team discovered that the disease takes 93%-100% if infected through scarification or intracutaneous injection into the foreskin. After the transmission was study Cutler then turned his focus to the treatability of the diseases. People were then recruited and infected and either put into a treatment group or a control group. The treatment group was given orvus-mapharsen or penicillin to see its effects and the control group was given nothing to stop the disease. Cutler and his team eventually infected 1308 people over the course of his studies. Documentation shows that only 52% where given treatment while Cutler claimed that all had been treated.

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