Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, volume IIVarious
Philosophy
Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, volume II
Various
Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946; War crime trials -- Germany -- Nuremberg
On 22 and 30 August a second person, condemned to death, with a
plethoric constitution and of strong build was inoculated with blood.
The first time in a fold of the left arm and in the right groin area,
the second time in the opposite positions. On the area of the
vaccination only the natural reddening and infections caused by the
vaccination instrument appeared, nothing else.
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“A third person condemned to death was inoculated with the fluid taken
from a Plague Bubo in the groin and in the shoulder. This same person
had dressed in the clothes of a plague patient 20 days previously and
had contracted the plague with all its severe symptoms. The skin and
tissue of this experimental subject remained refractory towards any
absorption of the poison. Even when the inoculation with blood was
repeated 8 days later, no disease resulted.”
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_SMALLPOX_
In 1791, the teacher Plett of Holstein successfully vaccinated three of
his landlord’s children in Starkendorf near Kiel. Later on when an
epidemic occurred they did not contract the disease, while their
brothers and sisters which had not been vaccinated fell sick.
81. (LV. 220) JENNER started from these premises. (Jenner, quoted from
Paschen, K.Kr.U., Manual on pathological micro-organisms, T. VIII, 1,
P821). In his first test, he inoculated with variola 16 persons who had
suffered from cowpox previously. They did not fall sick.
In 1796, a milkmaid who suffered from a finger injury contracted an
infection when milking a cow sick with cowpox. She developed a case of
cowpox. With the contents of one pustule, Jenner vaccinated a boy. The
boy developed typical vaccine pustules at the vaccination area of his
arm. Two weeks later, Jenner carefully inoculated the boy on both arms
with new pustule matter. No sickness ensued, and a second inoculation
also was negative. Thus, clear proof was furnished that cowpox
transmitted to human beings possessed the same protective value as that
produced in animals.
However, another epidemic was necessary before Jenner’s success was
recognized. In this instance he inoculated 6 children directly from the
cow. They developed a slight infection, and a subsequent inoculation
failed.
The success of Jenner’s experimental infections on human beings have
resulted in a blessing for all mankind inasmuch as his fundamental
experiments on human beings have caused the extermination of variola in
all countries that have compulsory vaccination.
EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF PROSECUTION EXPERT
WITNESS DR. ANDREW C. IVY[27]
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_CROSS-EXAMINATION_
DR. SAUTER: Witness, you are an expert in the field of aviation
medicine?
WITNESS DR. IVY: Yes.
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