VOSHN 317

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="295"><tr><td class="etesti">295</td><td class="edate">Late August till early September, 1945.</td><td class="eage">A big change in hematopoietic functions.</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>34 years old at that time</td></tr></table><div class="large"><p>I dissected a number of hibakushas' body.  Although they did not have any burns on the surface, their liens and livers inside were cowered.  Pelvis was melted like mud.  Body structures such as pelvis turned into yellow and melted in liquid form which made it easy for me to point out the emergency inhematopoetic functions changes.</p><br><p>Considering these symptoms, I was quite sure that this is a kind of radiation disease.  Hairs were found through microscope or even by the naked eye, but the roots were heavily damaged.  All sweat glands were damaged as well.  Although the body did not have a burn, the sweat gland function was gone.  Those disorders could not be found from the surface.</p><br><p>And the testicle, which are supposed to be sticky in the inside, were cowered and the tackiness was gone.</p><br><p>At that time, patients suffered from fever straight followed by diarrhea.  The patients did not sweat.  Generally speaking, when one has a fever, sweats come out and helps to cool down the body.  But as for the hibakushas, they did not sweat.  And this was because their sweat glands were damaged.  Even if they tried to, the sweat glands were creating a dysfunction.</p><br><p>During the middle term, the cowered liens turned red and started to grow bigger in contrast.  One's bone marrow generally turn into yellow when one reaches adulthood, but the hibakushas' melted down and after the middle term they turned into red.</p><br><p>People who survived till then managed to show some kind of hematopoetic functions.  On the other hand, the number of WBC increased rapidly and the symptoms of leukemia were found.</p><p>The symptoms of the victims greatly changed according to the times.</p></div></body>