During the first world war, a doctor named David marine was trying to figure out how to treat gouder. Gouder is a condition that causes severe enlargement of the thyroid gland. Marine wanted to see if regular doses of iodine could solve the problem. These days, most experiments involving human subjects are closely regulated.
In the final year of the Second World War, 36 men spent a year in a dingy set of rooms under the University of Minnesota football stadium. They were part of an experiment none of them would ever forget. What happened in the Department of Physiological Hygiene? Revisionist History uncovers a forgotten box of interviews in the archives of the Library of Congress.
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