time-consumlng £o explain this in de-tail. So I replied, "Sugar is poison. Iswear i t! Sugat wi l ] des t roy yourblood."

This dietary method made i t possi-ble for me to rernain alive and go onworking vigorously as a doctor. The |radioactivity may not have been a fata!dose, but t h a n k s to this me thod ,Brother Iwanaga, Reverend Noguchi,Chief Nurse Miss Murai, other siaffmembers and in-patients, as wel l as my-self all kept on living on the kthal ashesof the bombeij rnins. It was thanks tothis food that all of us coulci work forpeople day after day, overconiing fa-tigue OT symptoms of atomic diseaseand survive the disaster free froni sevcrcsymptoms of radioactivity. I believe italthough it is difficult to prove from amedical point of view.

Those who were close to the centerof the blast in Nagasaki were killed in-slantly. Those who were al a larger dis-tance were injured orseverely burneddepending on whether they were ex-posed or shel/ered and the disiancefrom the epicenter.

Actuaüy, thecomtitution, theage,and the condition ofeach person 'shealfh also determined individuol vuf-nerabïlity and the duration ofeach sur-vival.

Ceneralfy, thepeopie of Nagasakidied, day by day, in places farther awayfrom the epicenter. Those "cirdes ofdeath " terrified thesurvi vors of the ex-terior zones who wereseeing this wavegei t ing doser, s/o wly, inexorably.

As people siarted to die in theneighborhood around the hospital, Dr.Akizuki began to test the condilion ofthosc around htm, putting Iheir ha/r.Indeed, loss of ha/r and change in skincolor are two signs showing the gravityof a person's condition. All of thosewho werestayingin the hospita! starledto become "terribly tired, " to havediürrhea and nansea. But none ofthemwould talkio each other abotit il. Thoscsymptoms got even vjorse when thedeadly wave reached the hospita! area.

When one knows the dangers ofthe atomic radiatioti, one can only beextremety surprised that Dr, Akizukiand those who were helping him in thehospita! survived, al t hou gh the sur-rounding population was decimated,and that they continued to live in thishighly contaminated area.

Medical help from outside the citycame very late and was unable to doanythingfor this new unknown ailment.Perhaps it was fortunate, for Dr. Aki-

zuki writes: "After all, there was no-thing else to do than go back to brownriceandmisosoup."It wasalready thebasis of the usual macrobiotic diet ofthe hospita! long before the nuclearcatastrophe. Thanks to thisfood, forti-fied after the bombing by even moresall and miso soup, the people livingin the hospïtal endured and survived.Other people in thecity—mostofwhotnwsre no langer eating a traditional ormacrobiotic diet^saidit was a rniradc.

Infact, this miracte was madepos-sible pritnarily becaiise of Dr. Akizuki'sdietary recommendalions and t hei r verysmart adaptation after the exploston.Two oiher factors also contributed latheir survival. First, the hospita! wasbuill ofbricks and constitutedforsomepatients and doctors relativelyeffectiveproiecüon against the atomic bombrays. Second/y, torrentïal rains arosetwice over Nagasaki, on September 2and 16. The last storm.also drenchedHtroshima on September 16. Theserains, which entled each time with vio-lent typhoons, were a difficult chal/engefor the hospita!survivors. "It's heil onearih: torture by fire, and torture bywater," Dr. Akizuki thought at Shefirstrain. Theflood was so intense that themeteoroiogical obsèrvatory registeredone foot of rain.

However, this intense rain turnedout to be a gift from God, as well as thetyphoon "Mazura/aki", which fol-lowed two weeks later. The abundantdownpour could dissolve and drainaway the radio act i ve fallout to thedepihsof theocean.

After this typhoon, the number ofdeaths decreased at the hospita!. Thehospita! aiteodants and myself ttïd nothave any more nausea or bloody excre-ment. Our hair stopped falling out. Itwas forty days after the bomb had ex-ploded. It seemed that at last the num-ber of viclims in the city was going todecrease. Those who had to die wereprobably already dead. From the daysof the lyphoon the gradual approachtowards inevitable death changed tothereturnoflife. G

(Reprinted from Le Compass,Au tuin n 1980, translated for EWJ byEvelyn Harboun. Dr. Akizuki's com-pleie accoum, from which this excerptis taken, is published in Document ofA-Bombed Nagasaki, available in lim-i/edquantities from Le Compass, B.P.72 43002 Le Puy Cedex, France, for 43francs. J

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