"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. After his death in 1909, the donor--a man ironically named Dr. Addison Davis Hard--confessed to the underhanded deed in a letter to Medical World.)"