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561 Ibid. 
562 John Cutler to John Mahoney. (1948, June 21). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR 0001142. 
563 John Cutler to John Mahoney. (1948, June 22). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR 0001144. 
564 John Murdock to John Cutler, forwarded by William J. McAnally, Jr. (1948, June 30). Correspondence. 
PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR 0001151. 
565 John Mahoney to John Cutler. (1948, July 16). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR 0001148. 
566 p arran5 x. (1937). Shadow on the Land. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, p. 175. 
567 Ibid. 
368 Dr. Cutler led the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in conjunction with Dr. Sidney Olansky and Dr. Stanley 
Schuman. Reverby, S. (2009). Op cit., p.69. 
569 Jones, J.H. (1993) Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. New York: The Free Press, p. 28. 
370 John Cutler. (1952, October 29). Experimental Studies in Gonorrhea. Report. PCSBI HSPI Archives, 
CTLR 0001287-88. 
571 John Cutler. (1955, February 24). Final Syphilis Report. PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR 0000852. Dr. 
Cutler cites to: Shattuck. G.C. (1930). Preliminary communication on syphilis in Yucatan. American 
Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Sl-10(3):177-182.; Curth, W. (1933). Op cit.; and Shattuck, G.C. 
(1933). Syphilis in Yucatan and related immunological questions. 
572 John Cutler. (1955, February 24). Final Syphilis Report. PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR 0000852. 
573 Curth, W. (1933). Op cit. This article is cited by Dr. Cutler in his Final Syphilis Report. 
574 John Cutler. (1955, February 24). Final Syphilis Report. PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR 0000809. 
575 Ibid, PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR 0000809. When Commission staff traveled to Guatemala and spoke 
with the Guatemalan Commission investigating these experiments, the Guatemalan Commission informed 
them that words used to describe the indigenous population in contemporaneous documents (that the 
Guatemalan Commission possesses) were derogatory and offensive. 
576 Unsigned [John Cutler] to Richard Arnold. (1946, August 21). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, 
CTLR 0001215. 
577 Richard Arnold to John Cutler. (1947, April 10). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR_0001190. 
578 John Cutler. (1955, February 24). Final Syphilis Report. PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR 0000858. 
579 Ibid, PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR_0000809. 
580 John Cutler. (1955, February 24). Final Syphilis Report. PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR_0000655. 
581 G. Robert Coatney to John Cutler. (1947, February 17). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, 
CTLR 0001051 
582 John Cutler to John Mahoney. (1947, May 17). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTFR_0001122. 
583 Kaempffert, W. (1947). Notes on science: syphilis prevention. New York Times, April 27. Several months 
before the New York Times publication. Dr. Eagle had been working with the Surgeon General of the U.S. 
Navy, Rear Admiral Clifford A. Swanson, on testing an oral penicillin prophylaxis in the Navy stemming 
from the above research. Surgeon General Swanson wrote to the NRC that “we are very much interested 
in the possibility of trying [penicillin by mouth] in the Navy on an experimental basis.” He solicited “[s] 
uggestions for setting up the experiment. . .if the Council considers that this can be accomplished without 
seriously jeopardizing the health of the men involved” [emphasis added]. Clifford A. Swanson to Lewis 
H. Weed. (1947, February 13). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, NAS 0001991. As described 
in a 1949 article, Eagle did indeed conduct this research in “a small body of military personnel with an 
extraordinarily high morbidity of gonorrhea.” This study did not involve artificial exposure. In fact, “no 
attempt was made to ascertain whether the men had been exposed.” Instead, subjects were divided into 
an experimental group, who received a single tablet of penicillin each time they returned from leave, and 
a control group, who received a placebo. Eagle then compared the general rate of infection of both groups 
over two 24-week periods. Eagle, H. (1949). The prophylactic use of penicillin. Trans Assoc Am Physicians 
62:59-60. 
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