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35 Ibid. 
36 Ibid. 
37 Ibid. 
38 Cutler Documents. (1947-1948). Guatemala Journal Studies with the Military (GC). Clinical notebook. 
PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR_0000620. 
39 La Follette-Bulwinkle Act (Venereal Diseases), Public Law No. 75-540; 75 Cong. Ch. 267; 52 Stat. 439 
(May 24, 1938). The Act made provisions for “establishing and maintaining adequate measures for 
prevention, treatment and control of VD [and] for the purpose of making studies, investigations and 
demonstrations to develop more effective measures for prevention, treatment, and control.” 
40 U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Hearings on Investigation and 
Control of Venereal Diseases. 75th Congress, 3rd Session, April 12-14, 1938, at 143. 
41 Ibid, at 144. 
42 Ibid. 
43 Draft of Committee on Medical Research History, Section on Venereal Disease attached to February 
25, 1946, Memorandum from E. Cowles Andrus to Chester S. Keefer, (n.d.). PCSBI HSPI Archives, 
NARA-II_0000414. Indeed, only a year later, in 1944, the Army decided it could no longer use arsenical 
and bismuth treatment for the treatment of syphilis, given combat conditions, and sought advice 
from the Subcommittee on Venereal Diseases on how best to administer penicillin as an alternative 
treatment. Penicillin Conference Under the Auspices of the U.S. Public Health Service, Food and Drug 
Administration, and National Research Council. March 27, 1946, at 158. 
44 Ibid. 
45 Ibid, PCSBI HSPI Archives, NARA-II_0000415. 
46 Mahoney, J.F. (1936). An experimental resurvey of the basic factors concerned in prophylaxis in syphilis. 
The Military Surgeon 78-79:351. 
47 The National Research Council (NRC) was organized in 1916 as an arm of the National Academy of 
Sciences by the National Academy of Sciences, under its congressional charter. In 1918, President 
Woodrow Wilson established the Council as a standing organization by Executiv e Order. Executive Order 
No. 2859, May 11, 1918. 
48 Joseph Moore to A.N. Richards. (1943, February 1). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, 
NARA-n_0000176. 
49 Ibid. 
50 The membership of the CMR included Dr. A.N. Richards, Chairman; Rear Admiral Harold W. Smith 
(Navy); Brig. Gen. James S. Simmons (Army); Dr. R.E. Dyer (PHS); Dr. A.B. Hastings (Harvard 
University), and Dr. A.R. Dochez (Cloumbia University). First Draft of Proposed C.M.R. Chapter for 
Irvin Stewart’s Administrative History of OSRD. (1945, January 12). PCSBI HSPI Archives, NARA- 
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31 First Draft of Proposed C.M.R. Chapter for Irvin Stewart’s Administrative History 7 of OSRD, 12 Jan. 1945, 
PCSBI HSPI Archives, NARA-U 0000354; Executive Order. (June 28, 1941). 
52 Ibid 
53 Ibid 
34 Rothman, D.J., op cit., pp. 30-31. 
55 Joseph Earle Moore Obituary 7 . (1958). British Journal of Venereal Disease 34:58-59. When he died, 
Moore’s memorial emphasized that he had devoted his “whole professional career. . .to the study and 
treatment of syphilis”; Thomas, H.M. (1960). Memorial: Joseph Earle Moore, MD. Transactions of the 
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