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CPS Unit Number 115-14

Unit ID:
14
Title:
University of Rochester School of Medicine
Operating agency:
Office of Scientific Research & Development
Opened:
October 1943
Closed:
October 1946
Summary:

CPS Unit No. 115, subunit 14, located at the University of Rochester School of Medicine in Rochester, New York, subjected CPS men to experiments in the effects of cold weather.
 
Dr. Wallace O. Fenn and Dr. E. F. Adolph directed this OSRD project on the effects of cold weather, diet and altitude on increased pulmonary pressure.  The University of Rochester School of Medicine (at Srong Memorial Hospital?) sponsored the project which ran from February 1944 through February 1946 and the Brethren Service Committee provided agency oversight.  Four to fifteen men at a time volunteered for the experiment.

Location:
Rochester, New York, United States