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Cutler Documents. (1947). Gonorrheal Experiment #1. Clinical notes, protocols, and subject note cards. 
PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR 0001749-78. The failure to confirm that the sex workers were infected at the 
time of the experiment may have undermined the validity of the study. 
John Cutler. (1952, October 29). Experimental Studies in Gonorrhea. Report. PCSBI HSPI Archives, 
CTLR 0001280. 
See Cutler Documents. (1947). Gonorrheal Experiment #1. Clinical notes, protocols, and subject note 
cards. PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR_0001761-75. 
John Cutler. (1952, October 29). Experimental Studies in Gonorrhea. Report. PCSBI HSPI Archives 
CTLR 0001286. 
Ibid, PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR_0001299. 
John Mahoney to John Cutler. (1947, February 10). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, 
CTLR 0001048. 
John Cutler to John Mahoney. (1947, March 12). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR 0001054. 
John Cutler to John Mahoney. (1947, January 2). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR 0001034. 
John Cutler to John Mahoney. (1947, January 7). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR 0001037. 
After the trip, Dr. Arnold wrote to Dr. Cutler that the rabbit inoculations were a failure and that none 
exhibited pinto. Richard Arnold to John Cutler. (1947, April 10). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, 
CTLR 0001037. 
Richard Arnold to John Cutler (1947, April 10). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR 0001190. 
Ibid. Most likely meaning that Dr. Cutler should stretch the truth. 
Ibid. 
Richard Arnold to John Cutler. (1947, April, 11). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR 0001061. 
Culter Documents. (1947-1948). Guatemala Journal Studies with the Military (GC). Clnical notebook. 
PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR_0000513. 
Cutler Documents. (1947). Gonorrheal Experiment #4. Clinical notes and subject note cards. PCSBI HSPI 
Archives, CTLR 0001823; Guatemala Journal Studies with the Military (GC). Clinical notebook. PCSBI 
HSP I Archives, CTLR_0000513. 
Cutler Documents. (1947-1948). Guatemala Journal Studies with the Military (GC). Clinical notebook. 
PCSBI HSP I Archives, CTLR_0000513. 
John Cutler. (1952, October 29). Experimental Studies in Gonorrhea. Report. PCSBI HSPI Archives, 
CTLR_0001299. Dr. Cutler published that result nearly three decades later: “[sjtudies in gonorrhea have 
indicated that the risk to the male in contact with an infected female is roughly one in 20 for a single 
contact.” Dr. Cutler cites an “[ujnpublished observation” by Dr. Funes and himself for this data. Cutler, J.C. 
et al. (1973, February). Op cit., p. 89. 
John Cutler. (1952, October 29). Experimental Studies in Gonorrhea. Report. PCSBI HSPI Archives, 
CTLR 0001299-1302. 
Ibid, PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR_0001282. 
Ibid, PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR_0001283. 
Ibid. 
John Cutler to John Mahoney. (1947, May 17). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR 0001121. 
Ibid, PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR_0001 121-22. 
Unsigned [John Cutler] on PASB letterhead to Richard Arnold. (1947, June 5). Correspondence. PCSBI 
HSPI Archives, CTLR_0001240. 
John Cutler to John F. Mahoney. (1947, June 22). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR 0001242. 
Reports to a Conference Held Under the Auspices of the Subcommittee on Venereal Diseases 9 February 
1944, on the Chemical Prophylaxis of Venereal Disease. (1944, February 9). PCSBI HSPI Archives, 
NAS 0003113-18. 
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