After Henrietta was buried, her husband Day returned to his daily routines but he did not have someone who could help care for his children because the older child who is Lawrence entered into the Army. As a result, Ethel wife of Galen who is cousin of Henrietta and Day, she decided to move into their house to help with the children. Ethel was always jealous of Henrietta because her husband was always in love with her. When she was in Day’s house, she started to sleep with him. She begun torturing his children but also, she did not give them enough food to eat. The most terrible thing was that Galen was fondling Deborah and he was telling her dirty words. A few years later, Laurence returned and took his brothers and sister to live with him and his girlfriend.
Reader Lovingly was the person who opened the first cell factory with Henrietta’s cells in Bethesda, Maryland. Then, a lot of scientist began to purchase Henrietta’s cells for experiments.
May 1954, was the first published story about HeLa cells. It told how helpful these cells were for human beings and the discovered of treatment for many diseases but they did not use Henrietta’s real name in the publication.
In 1954 Chester Southam, as a scientist began to injected people with HeLa cells without consent of the patients. He was trying to see how HeLa cells act in a person with cancer and a healthy person.
The writer visited Henrietta’s cousin Cliff who showed her the house that Henrietta grew up in and the family cemetery where Henrietta is buried which is located in the back yard of her house. He also, told her the history of their family.
I do not understand how doctors could do anything with their patients and not to tell them.
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