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Infamous Cases: The Willowbrook Study
 
From 1963 through 1966, studies were carried out at the Willowbrook State School, a New York institution of "mentally defective persons". Picture (222x162, 20.6Kb)
These studies were designed to gain an understanding of the natural history of infectious hepatitis and subsequently to test the effects of "gamma" globulin in preventing or ameliorating the disease.