no ORGANIZING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FOR WAR 



the religious groups who maintained the camps (American Friends, Men- 

 nonites, Brethren), the responsible investigators interviewed the occupants 

 of a conveniently located camp and asked for volunteers. Two hundred 

 forty-one subjects were obtained in this fashion for experiments on prob- 

 lems of nutrition, malaria, aviation medicine and acclimatization that in- 

 volved, among other things, subsisting for long periods on starvation diets. 



Hospital patients who were to be infected with malaria as a form of 

 treatment for their disease were logical candidates for participation in the 

 program. Through co-operation of the appropriate State and City Depart- 

 ments facilities of the following hospitals were placed at the disposal of 

 CMR investigators: Goldwater Memorial Hospital, Bellevue Psychopathic 

 Hospital, and Manhattan State Hospital, all in New York City; Massachu- 

 setts General Hospital and Boston Psychopathic Hospital, both in Boston; 

 Manteno State Hospital, Manteno, Illinois; and Gaston Psychopathic Hos- 

 pital, Memphis, Tennessee. 



Results of Contracts. The scientific accomplishments of the research pro- 

 gram are summarized in the two volumes of the OSRD history entitled 

 Advances in Military Medicine. Only their quantity will be mentioned here. 



A considerable proportion of the civilian medical research conducted in 

 the United States during the years 1 942-1 945 was performed under con- 

 tract with OSRD. As of May 9, 1946, 11 29 papers describing this work 

 had appeared in scientific journals and 869 additional manuscripts had been 

 approved for publication. An unpredictable but large number will con- 

 tinue to appear over a period of several years as security regulations are 

 still further removed. In addition to these journal publications, a number 

 of monographs and fasciculi have been and will be prepared. A three- 

 volume "confidential" fasciculus totaling 1500 pages describes the back- 

 ground and advances in various aspects of chemical warfare and contains 

 a complete bibliography of the subject. In the field of malaria, a three- 

 volume monograph, entided A Survey of Antimalarial Drugs: ig^i-ig^^, 

 was published at the end of 1946. It relates the effectiveness and toxicity of 

 over 12,000 drugs that were examined for their antimalarial action and de- 

 scribes the methods for synthesis of these compounds. An equally compre- 

 hensive monograph on the Chemistry of Penicillin, which is in course of 

 publication, describes the results of the concerted efforts of American and 

 British investigators to synthesize penicillin. 



Organization of CMR and Supervision of Research Program 



Washington Office. The four civilian members of CMR had important 

 responsibilities in their normal capacities, of which it was impossible to 

 divest themselves entirely. They all attended the weekly or biweekly meet- 

 ings of the Committee in Washington. They all spent approximately one 



