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Antonio Benino The undersigned, Antonio Benino
being more than twenty-five years of age, native of Cerceda,
in the province of Corima, the son of Manuel Benino
and Josefa Castro here states by these presents, being in
the enjoyment and exercise of his own very free will, that he consents
to submit himself to experiments for the purpose of determining the
methods of transmission of yellow fever, made upon his person by the
Commission appointed for this purpose by the Secretary of War of the
United States, and that he gives his consent to undergo the said ex-
periments for the reasons and under the conditions below stated. The undersigned understands perfectly well that in case of the
development of yellow fever in him, that he endangers his life to a
certain extent but it being entirely impossible for him to avoid the
infection during his stay in this island, he prefers to take the
chance of contracting it intentionally in the belief that he will
receive from the said Commission the greatest care and the most skill-
ful medical service. It is understood that at the completion of these experiments, with-
in two months from this date, the undersigned will receive the sum of
$100 in American gold and that in case of his contracting yellow fever
at any time during his residence in this camp, he will receive in addi-
tion to that sum a further sum of $100 in American gold, upon his re-
covery and that in case of his death because of this disease, the
Commission will transmit the said sum (two hundred American dollars)
to the person whom the undersigned shall designate at his convenience. The undersigned binds himself not to leave the bounds of this camp
during the period of the experiments and will forfeit all right to the
benefits named in this contract if he breaks this agreement. And to bind himself he signs this paper in duplicate, in the Experi-
mental Camp, near Quemados, Cuba, on the 26th day of November
nineteen hundred. The contracting party,
Antonio Benigno
On the part of the Commission:
Walter Reed
Maj. & Surg., U.S.A.
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