045 Maud Jacobs. 150r. 25 days. Well documented destruction of

bone marrow, full blood counts given in her Patient History,

squares exactly with what her family remembers. She was at

home caring on her own for three children when called in for

her "treatment," went back home the same day but the next day

was violently ill and taken back to hospital, where she died

25 days later extremely ill and mostly out of her mind.

Her daughter Lillian Pagano is an excellent witness to

Jacobs' last travail and death, was 32 when her mother died

and with her every day in hospital. A nice woman. She did

not even know her mother was getting TBR, was told nothing.

Jacobs had "a normal hemogram" before her radiation;

seven days later her counts began to fall; the day before her

death her WBC was 850 (down from 5100) and her platelets

38,000 (from 370,000).

It should be recalled that before Maud Jacobs was

irradiated, nine patients had already died within 54 days of

this "treatment."

She was the 13th person to receive 150 or 2004 (and five

of this group had died within one or two months).

Regardless of what the doctors say they knew or did not

know before they started this project in 1960, they knew by

the time they selected this mother of young children for

radiation in 1964 that the chances of anyone surviving the

higher doses were not good, and that they could not even try

to protect her bone marrow.

Yet her family was told nothing about the risk entailed.

No consent form exists in her records, and certainly it is

clear that she never knew the risk she was taking (and that if

she had known, would not have taken it).

Her children all tell the same story as that recounted

above, and we have written testimony (submitted to the

Cincinnati hearing) from her son Bob Phillips.