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All but two of the seven patients used in the experiment "lay quietly or even motionless," according to the published study.
In a telephone interview from his Brookline home last night, Sweet said he vaguely recalled the experiment. He agreed that, given the test subjects' afflictions, it is unclear whether or not they could give consent.
The experiment involved injecting seven patients with tracer doses of radioactive sodium, according to Sweet and the published work. The doctors then drew blood from the patients about an hour later to measure how well the bodymetabolized tracers.
According to Sweet, who retired in 1977, the1951 experiment was just one of many similar testshe and his colleagues at Massachusetts GeneralHospital performed.
Sweet said the experiment would be done thesame way today, except that "we'd have it allwritten down."