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Shocking Experiments with Penicillin 

3/9/2016

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Two shocking reports on the way in which experiments for the effectiveness of penicillin were  carried out in Guatemala, Tuskegee and also HERE

Patients were involved in experiments without consent. The work done here did much to move penicillin on but cost hundreds of lives. In the case of Guatemale, orphans and prostitutes were deliberately given diseases, and in the case of Tuskagee, Black patients were given placebo drugs to test the effectiveness of penicillin.

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