SCIE 1P51 Lecture : Pharmaceuticals
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Search for cures as malaria was contracted by soldiers in infected areas. Victims infected by mosquitoes or injected with extract of mucous glands of mosquitoes. Over 1000 victims were used in these experiments. Many died and others suffered severe pain an permanent disability. 1943 to 1944 phosphorus burn experiments at buchenwald. To treat soldiers who had been burned by explosives. Test the effect of various pharmaceutical preparations on phosphorous burns. There burns were inflicted on the victims with phosphorous matter taken from incendiary bombs, and caused severe pain, suffering, and serious bodily injury. To study carious methods of making sea water drinkable. The victims were deprived of all food and given only chemically processed sea water. Such experiments cased great pain and suffering and resulted in serious bodily injury to the victims. Drafted by the world medical association in 1964 (most recently updated in 2008) builds on the. Nuremberg code and is the basis for good clinical practices used today.