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disinfectant for the doctors to use when they scrubbed. The stands and the pans had been brought from Ishiyama Surgery. Ishiyama then came in the room with Torisu, Hirao, Mori, Senba, Nogawa and Komori. Ishiyama told the doctors how he wanted the tables arranged. One was put in the middle half of the room on the end where most of the windows were located; another was placed at the end of this table and cross ways to it. Senba and Nogawa had come in early and set up equipment, while the nurses were cleaning. Then they left, came back with Ishiyama. Senba set up a table for anaesthetics several feet from where the operating table was standing. He set up a stand used at Ishiyama Surgery on one side so that it would not be in the way-the stand was about 5 ' high, was a metal rod with a heavy base and legs which were also made of metal. The jar was attached to the top of the stand and had a rubber hose which came out the bottom. The bottle had some sort of liquid in it. Just before everything was ready, Senba brought the stand with the glass jar Close to the operating table. Nogawa brought a table, put a stool on it, and he climbed up to an electric cord in one of the ceiling light extensions. The cord down to a board that had several plugs in it, and various electrical devices could be plugged into the board. The lamp was plugged into it, and if the aspirator was used, it was plugged in, too. The room had no ceiling; one could see the cross beams go right up to the roof; the beans were bare and dirty. Suyama asked Nogawa if it, wasn't dangerous. The ceiling and roof are yet in the same condition. The professors had been waiting in the hall after everything was set up for the operation. They then went out in the yard in back of the Anatomy Building, came in 2-3 times. Finally, they heard a car or truck in the back. and Suyalna finished preparing the solution for the doctors to use in scrubbing their hands. The doctors came into the room. Ishiyama told Senba to give some anaesthetic to the Prisoner who was brought, in, and Senba then prepared his anaesthetics. Komori told Ishiyama that the Prisoner had already been drugged, but when the Prisoner was brought in, it did not appear to Suyama that he was drugged. The Prisoner was blindfolded and his hands were tied; he was slender, tall, with reddish hairs. The Japanese soldiers took him into a little room near the dissection room, and Senba went there to administer the anaesthetic. The Prisoner's clothes were a brown color, but were very dirty. He wore an extremely dirty white undershirt; had a very bad Ether and chloroform were used. Suyama saw Senba and 2 soldiers with the Prisoner. The Prisoner was on the floor and Senba had placed a gauze over the Prisoner's face and he put several drops of anaesthetic on it. Ishiyama, Komori, Hirao, and Torisu and Mori came in and scrubbed their hands, put on operating gowns. few minutes later, 2 soldiers brought the Prisoner in on a stretcher. He was still blindfolded, and the blindfold was not taken off during the operation, About the time the incision in the lung was made, Tanaka and Makino came in. Some of the doctors left before the operation was over, called out by telephone |