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After a long while, I could at lastidentify the bomb: "That's it! It is thenew type of bomb, the ons from Hiro-shima. ,," The fire from the hospitalspread little by Jittle. It was strange that[hè main roof had burnt first. Maybethe tenïperature of the atmosphere atthe time of the detonation was severalthousand degrees at the epicenter andseveral hundred degrees near the hospi-ta!. Thewoodenstructures.locatedlessthan a thousand yards from the epicen-ter, bumlimmediately, and a huge fireensued. At the interior of one thousandyards around the epicenter, even steelwas burning! The hospital was locatedabout a mile from it. The fire had start-ed with a few dames around the roof.

Mos! of the medical equipmentand supply of medicine had been de-stroyed. Dr. Akizukl found himselfpracticalty unprepared, with onty apain reliever, some gauze, and Meren-rochrometotreathispatientsi

To treat only two persons was ascomplex and difficuh as treating twentypatierits in consultation on a regularday. Some of the patients who came tous had widcspread and deep burns.Some others had fragments of shat-tered glass deeply encrusted in theirbodies, in their musdes.

I had no.idea at all of radioactiverays. Among the païients wtio had notbeen burnt, many were having slomachaches and infiammation of themouth. Ithought it was becatise they were livingin the shelter from the timeof theexplo-sion. But as dayspassed by, they starledto be af fected with diarrhea and bloodystools. The stomatitis biought aboutgum bleeding and subcutaneous hem-orrhages followed. Then the inside ofthe móuth became purple. .

"l fear that it is dysentery," Itfiought then. Actually, it was muchworse.than dysentery, but ï did not.Isnow ït. No, norse of us knew bow terri-ble all this was. . .

ForoneyearDr. Akizukï had beenassislant in the Department of Radio-therapy of the hospital oftheFacuity ofMedicine of Nagasaki. It gave him thevpportunity to discover that catarrhvtasfrequenity broughi on by the con-tinuoits irradiation of various personssufferingfromuterineorbreastcancer.Ëveryday hè also proceèded to .take .X-ray exams and had also experiencedsymptoms of catarrh. This previous ex-

perience proved very useful. AroundAugust 15 hefinally realized that thesymptoms hè was nowfeel/ng after thebotnbing corresponded exactly to thistype of catarrh.

From ïhe point of view of classicalphysics, X-rays are very short electro-magnetic w aves which can go throughthe cells of the human body and evendestroy them in the case of intense irra-diation like radium. The cells destroyedby this type of radiation are the oneswhere frequent divisions arise. Themost fragile celis (thesexual cells, mar-row celis, and alt cells whieh have a vitalfunctïon) are desiroyed by radioacti-vity. It was ;he oniy thing I could guessabout the "atomïc disease."

When 11 ooi caie of païients suf-lering from catarrh o: I wa= rnyself suf-fering from it, I used to drink or give tothem to drink a salE\ solïition, whichcontained a little bil mors sak than thepiiysiological serum, ar,d k turned outfo be very effective.

Salt is good f o: mose who justfaced the bomb. Sai: ii efficacious, Icanassureyou.

ï have no knowiedge of nuclearphysics or atom biolcey; no books, notreatise on atornicdisease, yet I wasconvinced about ihe effectiveness ofmydietary meihad, fth:ch can beciear-ly defined as this: Salt o: sodium iongives back to the blood its \itah'ty whilesugar in turn is toxic.

This idea corresponded lo the pa-tients'treatmentby doctors and staffatthe Faculty of Medicine of Nagasaki.Now my mineral method was turningout to be very effective in curing peoplecontaminated from the atomic explo-

" sion. T feit something like belief wellingup inrny bosom and gave the cooks andstóffstri ei orders that they shouldmakeunpolished whole-grain rice balh, add-ing some salt to them, préparé strongmiso soup foi each meal, and never usesugar. When they didn't follow my or-ders, I scolded them without mercy:"Never take sugar. Sugar will destroyyour blood!"

I had fed my co-workers brownrice and miso soup for some time befbrethe bombïng, and they had not takenany sugar, which was at that time rareand inaccessible to the Japanese public."Why is.sugar poison to the blood?Wtry is salt effective for curing atornicdisease?" they all asked me. It was

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