Miss Evers Boys
...eated for, what they were told, is that they were being treated for ‘bad blood’. In the movie Eunice Evers comes up with the idea, as many of the men wouldn’t understand what Syphilis was. Miss Evers was well aware that these men were not being treated, but she felt her role was to console the men, and give them what help she could. Around 1940 Penicillin became widely known to help cure Syphilis; however the government and doctors said that penicillin would interfere with the results of their study, and that it could potentially kill those patients who were in later stages of the disease. Those men that tried to get penicillin elsewhere were turned away, as the government had sent out lists to hospitals of all the men involved in the study, and were given strict orders not to administer any penicillin. The study was discontinued 40 years later, after approximately 285 men had died of ...