heart was completely in a critical condition. The EKG of 23 Soptezber showed markedly rapid pulsation and was clearly a premortal EKG, As for antibiotics, we gave a total of 18.3 grans of chlortetra- cyclin and tetracyclin and, later, one gram of chloranphenicol. when the patient was comatose we gave a total of 110 mg of ACTH but none was given after 9 Septenber. We also gave 570 mg of cortisone. A large quantity of Candida was found in the phlegn and saliva before death. Aspergillus was found in the urine. Fujiuori: I understand you mde an electrcencephalogram, Kumatori: Yes. The electroencephalograa showed a comatose Pat~ tern. Goto: I wis in Hiroshima on an investigetion for neerly one month after the atomic explosion. I fowd that the white cell ccumt de~ creased ccensiderably in 4 or 5 weeks, I also observed hich fever as in typhoid iver and pseudomexbranous ulcerative angina. symptoms occur in these cases? Kunateri: Did’ such Those patients whose white count dropped considerably hed a temperature between 38 and 39 degrees. But because wa used entiblotica to a great extent, wea did not note much septicemia as in the Hiroshima cases. Goto: In the Hiroshima cases the white count began to rise from the sixth week and became normal from the ninth or tenth wcek. I understand that in this instence the white count returned to normal in many cases. Were there sore cases in which it did not become normal? Kunatori: There were more cases in which it did not becons normal. Goto: Was this the result of absorption of the radioactive caterlal into the body? , Kuzatori: Of course, that must be taken into consideration, Bssides, investigators fron Tokyo University who studied the actions of tho crew an board ship computed the account of radiation received externally, This and the syzptozs must be cocpared. Goto: In the Hiroshima cases the externsl exposure was momentary; but in this instance it lasted quite a long time. As this was a case ef long external exposure, I think the progress of recovery might have been a bit nore along normal lines, although treatment was soncwhat delayed. Kimatori: Theos persons recejvedt more radiation than those sum vivors of IHiroshima. We cannot say what might have happened to thea if they had not been treated in time. for that reason, I think their recovery was slow, I wonder whether they were not so seriously injured as the survivors of Hiroshima, Oshima: , In the case of Hireshiza, in general, ‘within a radius of one ka frou the center of the explosion, all died instantly; within a US DOE ARCHIVES