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A former Yale Law School student who contracted hepatitis for the sake of science has blood drawn from his arm at a CPS clinic set up in a fraternity house at the University of Pennsylvania. February 27, 1945.
Credit: Courtesy of Temple University, Urban Archives, Philadelphia, Pa.
During World War II, 50 COs voluntarily served as human guinea pigs, contracting hepatitis for an Army study of jaundice undertaken at the University of Pennsylvania.