While the patient was working on the deck he placed one towel on his head,
another towel around his neck,
He was wearing a rubber overcoat, a sleeveless
undershirt, a cotton fundoshi, cotton underpants, cotton gloves, and long rubber
boots tc the knees,
He was not wearing socks,
wide (3.0cm) rubber tands.
sweat,
Around both wrists he had
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His entire body was soaked with sea water and
He states his body was covered by the felling ash andfathered because
of the dampness,
The ash particles were pencil point in size and rather uniform.
Due to irritation his eyes began to smart, then tear, and finally there was
pain.
He, therefore, covered as much of his face as possible with another towel.
The lines were finally brought in at about 10 a.m.
down with sea water,
and "monogen",
The decks were washed
The patient then washed his head and face with cea vater
Than he went to his bunk, took off his clothes, except for the
wrist bends, and slept until 4 p.m.
Upon awakening he felt well and was hungry;
however, there was a heavy yellow secretion draining from his eyes and his
hends were swollen and painful to the exclusion of clenching his fists,
Cn the morning of Uarch 2 he was only able to open his eyes by pulling the
lids apart with his fingers as the lids were mattec by the yellow discharge.
This r.atting continued until Larch 14 vhen the vessel arrived at the port of
eizwe
Cn Uarch 3 during the return trip cther merters of the crew rerarked on a
»Disrantetion of a muddy brown color appearing on the vatient's face,
At the
same tine this sanx discoloration becare apparent under the wrist bands,
About
Ziarch 4 his scalp began to itch; wpon scratching vesicles erpeared over the
occivital and l3ft te?poral regions, which were tencer to teuch,
the scalp began tc epilate 1itn little tension.
The hairs of
Sy March 1C there was cefinite
scentaneous epilation thouch clisht.
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