the paticnt's things separate so wo immwdiatcly preparcd for thet. At
that tine most of the wands were full, and there was nene with 21 expty
beds. . Wa thoucht of evacuating the urolozy ward at the corner above
the auditoriua, since it would be very easy to suporvise. Eut in that
ward we had a poticnt whom we could not move; besides, the beds were high
and the ward was located three flights up, so it would have been

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troublesons for the nurses.

Therefore wa vacated two adjoining wards

for internal medicine, removing the patients in the ward, with their

beds, to other wards.

Wa put 16 beds in the ward and got tio nurses

from another ward. Wo prepared urinals, urine storage vessels, bed~
pans, sputunr cups, etc, to exch, with proper bed nuzbors.
Wa dooided to diceus3 exoninsticns iith Or. Obacoto of the Andie

ation Dspartiaent and elso with the Te3ting and Surgical deopartrents.

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In addition to Dr. Kuutord, wa also assigned two interns (Niitent

and Fukuda). Now, with Dr. Shibuya, who returned fron the institute,
the number of dectora on thea project rose to thres. Since thsse cases
also involved the Otorhinology, Opnthalmelozy, and Dercatolozy derartuonts, wa decided to discuss the situstion with the chief of cach
departcrent. After Dr. Shibuya returned, the therapy procceded quite
smoothly. Dr. Kucitori was responsible for cell coumts ant narrow
studies, Unter tha spleniid guidence of Dr. Mucrtord, the young poople
did so well thet cvoiytitng tent aleng very niccly.
Dre a Ch of the Testing Pspirk ont cxertncd the urfira. Ve sched
Mr. Hine to cxnatna Jiver favcttons and Br. Isht of tha Tosting Dapartmont to poerforn tha che-teal anelysea of blocd and urine, 43 cur hozpital wes mot cqutppod -rith a flava epoctropzrstovater wa asked Prefessor Vabsucwa of tho Ploche:totyy Deopertccat of Tohyo Weents Mudi~eal Veiversity, a part-ticoe coter of our hospital, to do tha quanti-~
tative analysis of salts, and excellent results were achieved. Wa all
thank him for his efforts.
Dr, Kucstori maintained constant contact with Dr. Miyoshi of Tohyo
University.
In treating burns and changing bandages wa rolied on EDTA' baths ang
put the patisnts in the care of the Surgical end Der=atological departments when they came out of their baths, A tice sckciule was arr-anzed
and tha s.ccea3 coved along very sroothly.
Puruvs2:
Buolie and journalistie opinion ran very high.
have suffered sozewhat fron these opinions.

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Keyaua: At the tecirning Lr. Kumatord primarily was taking car of
"re
's But as the p-tient grow worse, he becam vary busy 30
Dr. Kuriyt:.1 and I wore often called in to nsip.
EucatorL: Tre reporters who wera concermed with this case ware
vory undorst-nding, and although there wore soma alsundorsatendines and
conplicstiena nt the “bTrinnine, they are very undoritanding cven now.
Eut wa isora often troubled by press photecramiirs.
Onsshis We porforzed ths eutopsy in a room with all the windows
tichtly clescd, as in a stean bath, tut we forgot to cloza tha overhend

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