“In 1884, the American physician William Pancoast injected sperm from his “best-looking” student into an anesthetized woman – without her knowledge – whose husband had been deemed infertile. Nine months later, she gave birth to a healthy baby. Pancoast eventually told her husband what he had done, but the two men decided to spare the woman the truth. Pancoast’s experiment remained a secret for twenty-five years.”
