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It's a treatment for acne, a treatment for aging skin, a treatment for leukemia.

Patented in 1957 and on the market since 1962, it's called Truttonoan. And with more than two million

prescriptions filed every year, it's one of America's most popular drugs. She might know it better

by the name Retin A. Now, what you might not know is how the man who developed it and patented

Tritanoin, Dr. Albert Klegman, tested his new drug.

He was a dermatologist at the University of Pennsylvania, and his partner in the venture was another physician named Dr. James Fulton.

Fulton had battled severe acne as a teenager, and he was on fire to find a medication that would spare

others that same torment.

Trout to know in retinae, it's so commonplace now, so routine and regular and every day

that we just take for granted that this near miracle treatment for acne is widely available.

But once, it was new and unproven.

Would it work?

Was it safe?

Doctors Cleggman and Fulton needed to test their discovery.

How lucky for them that there just happened to be funding available from a government agency that specialized in turning a blind eye to unlawful experiments on human beings.

And even more convenient, they had a whole pool of test subjects, thousands of them, all in one place.

Scores of men, bare chested in the heat.

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