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MOROTOMI, TAKEFUMI [Marginal Note: (KIU) ] Statement of Morotomi (19 May 47) 35 yrs., doctor in orthopedic Surgery Department Yahata Iron Refinery Hospital. In early 44 was studying orthopedics under Jinnaka at KIU. 30 March 1944 went in army as 1st Lt., assigned to temporary hospital, Fukuoka 2nd Army Hospital - where most patients had latent infections. In May 1945, Komori, who he did not know till then, told him possible to inject seawater into arteries to relieve rheumatism of joints - this on street car. About May or June KIU asked 2nd army hospital to bring them some seawater for purposes of research - Morotomi rode this truck - believes needed as blood substitute. Maj. Gen. Saburo IBE, head of army hospital, consulted occasionally with Ishiyama about operations. Once Ishiyama operated on Lt. Col. Murase of 2nd Army Hospital, in May or June, 1945. Jinnaka would, occasionally come from KIU to lecture at 2nd Army Hospital. Jinnaka on orthopedics, Ishiyama on surgery, Nakajima on Xray, Taizo Kumagai of Tohoku IU in Sendai once on TB - occasionally KIU doctors would come to direct operations. Fukuoka 2nd Army Hospital under jurisdiction of War Department until February 1945, then Western Army. In beginning of August 1945 doctors from KIU would lecture at 2nd Army Hospital. NO SOAP HERE |
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Statement of Jinnaka (420, 9 June 1947) Once in the early part of 1945 an army doctor came to Ishlyama and questioned him about his research, as to which Dr. Takebuni Morotomi, an army doctor at 2nd Army Hospital would know. |