VOSHN 326

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="304"><tr><td class="etesti">304</td><td class="edate">After the middle of August, 1945.</td><td class="eage">Once we isolated them I had to leave them.</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>19 years old at that time</td></tr></table><div class="large"><p>I had dipped a piece of gauze in a bucket of disinfectant and applied it to the wound.  Patients lay down on passages and lavatories everywhere.  I had made such gauzes I started to apply them to all.  It took all day to do so.  The next day I took gauzes.  No sooner did I take them than I put new ones to everyone.</p><br><p>Then, patients were infested with maggots and got germs.  Next, I cut off their arms and legs.  I left a patient with a serious case as he was.  He was covered with many maggots.  When we had passed by him maggots flied away in all directions.  And we had gone maggots came from all directions.  He was infested with maggots.  Maggots bred in him endlessly.</p><br><p>When people showed symptoms of radiation sickness they began to suffer from diarrhea.  They were bleeding.  We suspected they were dysentery.  We isolate them.  We would have trouble if we got dysentery.  So I could not take care of them.  So once we isolated them I had to leave them.  I felt very sorry about cases like that.</p><br><p>They were really suffering from radiation sickness.  But we had no way to know the truth at that time.</p></div></body>