stjorthotic Chapter 563 - 431: Cherish Those Around You—Engagement?
Chapter 563 - 431: Cherish Those Around You—Engagement?
"What’s wrong with art students? Art students are people too."Hearing Xu Man Ni say this, Xu Hongdou was a bit dissatisfied and said.
Xu Man Ni is a medical student, which can be considered a mix of humanities and science, while Xu Hongdou is undoubtedly an art student. Xu Man Ni often brought this up in front of Xu Hongdou.
As if being an art student was such a big deal.
"I didn’t say anything about art students; why are you so worked up?"
Seeing Xu Hongdou like this, Xu Man Ni smiled and said.
"Brother-in-law, you haven’t been eating well in Africa these past two days, right? Want to go out for a late-night snack?"
Xu Hongdou ignored Xu Man Ni and spoke to Zhao Heng instead.
Compared to her lying around at home, Zhao Heng had to risk his life for medical aid in Africa, which moved Xu Hongdou a bit.
You know the saying: ’There is no such thing as peace and quiet, only because someone is bearing the burden on your behalf.’
"I think you’re the one who wants to eat."
Xu Man Ni smiled and said.
"Alright, I guess. Besides, I can’t sleep anyway."
Zhao Heng said. Since returning from Africa, Zhao Heng indeed felt uneasy. Logically, going there for two days without any issues should be a relief.
But the skills related to genetic modification he picked up from Dr. William left Zhao Heng feeling unsettled.
Before, when he saw reports about syphilis experiments conducted by the United States, he thought they were fictional, but now he somewhat believes they were real.
The first time our people learned about the term syphilis on a large scale, I believe, was from ads on utility poles, where wandering "ancestral doctors" used low-quality ink and paper to scam men into losing everything over embarrassing problems.
Come to take buses 518, 522, 753, 390, 342, 754, and get off at Jiangnan Road Sang Family Bus Station to see the No. 99 signpost on the pole
Convenient Import Clinic
Speciality Injection Department
Immediate Effect, Early Recovery, Thorough Cure, Never Recurs
Male and Female Forest Disease Syphilis
Urgent pain, burning, pus, frequent urination
Note: Expert doctor with a 100% cure rate; this advertisement is long-term effective.
Make sure to recognize the address: Don’t go wrong, working as usual on holidays, accepting patients day and night, keeping medical secrets!
That’s exactly the kind of small ad you’d see on a utility pole.
Before penicillin was invented, syphilis was an incurable disease. Beethoven, Lincoln, Van Gogh, Columbus, Nietzsche, Maupassant... many well-known figures were syphilis patients.
Human beings battled syphilis for five centuries before they finally figured out how to conquer it.
However, what is unimaginably shocking is that in the United States, where medical resources are among the most abundant in the world, a 40-year medical experiment was carried out, deceiving nearly 400 Black people infected with syphilis. These Black individuals were given no treatment at all but were instead left to live normal lives, marry, have children, and suffer from the virus while passing it on to their wives.
This started in the 1920s when Norwegian doctors summarized the disease progression of several hundred white men with syphilis, filling a gap in syphilis research. However, this research was considered a retrospective study, and it was thought there should also be a prospective study of the disease.
Retrospective study and prospective study are both medical terms. Simply put, a retrospective study summarizes diseases that have already occurred to distill their universal essence.
A prospective study, on the other hand, is where medical workers design preconditions to observe the course of a disease and decide if it develops as expected.
Norwegians conducted a retrospective study on syphilis, while the United States wanted to supplement with a prospective study. Thus, in 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service appointed Dr. Toliver and Dr. Clark to conduct this research.
Dr. Clark’s initial research plan was to observe some untreated Black men with syphilis over 6 to 9 months, then provide effective treatment.
Clark collaborated with a predominantly Black university in Alabama - Tuskegee University to recruit 600 Black male participants, 399 with syphilis, and the other 201 were uninfected, serving as a control group.
In principle, there was nothing wrong with the setup of this medical experiment, but Clark quickly realized that his conception was completely misguided from the outset. The U.S. Public Health Service never intended to treat these Black men but instead planned to let them fend for themselves while using various testing methods to understand the entire course of the disease. In other words, they conducted inhumane live virus experiments on these Black men.
When Dr. Clark learned one year into the trial that it was intended as a long-term project, he resigned, and Dr. Raymond Fonder succeeded him.
Dr. Fonder lied to the Black participants, telling them they all had "bad blood," not syphilis, misleading them into thinking they were receiving a special free treatment.
However, the so-called treatment didn’t exist. Neither the patients nor the control group received any effective drug treatment; Fonder and his team only gave them useless placebos.
The entire experiment wasn’t just about observation. Besides regular blood tests, the participants had to undergo painful spinal taps for bone marrow samples; the whole process was agonizing.