oe ae ~pt TR eS F Geuth was ascribed ss ‘The curve The next snowed infection and hemorthage as causes of the granulocyte count hag a least decline in the showing the granulocyte count with a mortality of in The animals at autopsy Geath. aaa Eee ee to intection and cumplicated by henerrhage. curve shows a slower decline aC%. ph. e muttality of 10% with hemorrhage and infection In Figures 3 anc 4, the critical role‘of the causes of death. the ,ranulocyte count in Japanese ag a oeterminant of mortality is illustrated. the i Figure 3 plots the q ‘ mortality against the blood counts observed in the third, fourth, and fifth weeks. fron "orem 1 The lower the white count the higher the sortality. Figure 4 “ t cortelates the mortality at the end of nine weeks with the lowest white The most clearcut cotrelation of count observed, the infection is in the work of Miller et al. (26), shown in Figure &. figure, there is a clearcut correlation of mortality with animals having positive studies in hussia and p: importance of In thig 2 gr the fraction of 4 wh blood and splenic bacterial cultures. Subsequent ¥ ex of ex, the L.S, extena and confirm the rele of infection, Liluwanian and Izvekova (30) have studied a whole series of antibiotics and fa thezr use in the treatment of radiation injury a They administered kanamycin, i oxacillin, : by mouth for a as a ! ana wletetrine, Une antibiotics rats, ane rabbits, * 2 tetracycline, were rays. (33 ampicillin, administered total of 20-25 days starting 24 hours after lethal dose of gamma effective erythromycin, in wice, twice fal a day “J: exp- irradiation withs : fron A coubination of antibivtics Was nore than single antibiotics. erythromycin, or such The combination of kanalInycin with is ] . tettacycline o1 tetracycline with ampicillin was most wx| ; effective. f , more than 50% survival. _ Chernov et al. (31) and Trushina et al. (32) Sige administered nexamine prior to exposure of dogs and nonkeys followed by. 50% pb ceome administration of antibiotics. exper: The antibietic combinations changed a near streptomycin were used. 100% mortality, ‘te For , In the case of dogs, penicillin and The survivals increased from 11% to 69%. studies on monkeys, a combination of kanamycin, and penicillin was used, X-re. oletettrine, : phante streptomyed 4 There was an increase in survival from 20% ta y. SP the 5G% « The Effects of Geometry of Exposure and kadiation Injury on Lepth-Lose The Curves and inadequacies of be illustrated by showing biolugical Lffectiveness using an air douse of the ¥ 7 radiation for prognosi@RE - influence of exposure peonetry and enet : . the ° the Bense ae 7 gathe t ing