NAZI EXPERIMENTS TO BE INVESTIGATED
SOME GOOD MAY COME OUT OF EVIL. Received Tuesday, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 17. At tbe invitation of the Britisli Medical Joiunal, organ of the British Medical Association, Dr. Kenne::i Mellanby, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is leaving for Germany this week to investigate the results ohtained hy Nazi doctors from "scientific experiments ' ' on inmates of concentration camps. The B.M.A., the Daily Telegraph says is anxious that no time should he lost in discovering whether the experiments are likely to henefit humanity. In a controversy among doctors about whether these Nazi research results should he published, Dr. Mellanby has maintained that they should he availahle to hona fide investigators. Dr. H. A. Clegg, of the British Medical Journal, said Dr. Mellanby' s mission would principally to coilect mformation throwing light on the problems of disease. ' 'We feel that if any good has come out of these Nazi experiments they should be published if only to honour the memory of'the victims./ '
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 December 1946, Page 5
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