Encounter with Disaster, Autopsy Lab

Title:

Encounter with Disaster, Autopsy Lab

Source:

Hiroshima Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Warner Wells

Publisher:

Norton

Date:

1985

Citation:

Averill A. Liebow, Encounter with Disaster: A Medical Diary of Hiroshima, 1945 (New York: Norton, 1985), Hiroshima Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Warner Wells.

Alternative Text:

Two pictures are seen in black and white. The top photo features what looks to be a two-story building behind a wall. The windows are empty of glass. There is a rooftop of a smaller building about in the middle of the larger building. The text below the picture reads, "The Communications Department Hospital seen from the rear (1,400 meters). The low building behind the central portion of the wall at the rear of the hospital was used as an autopsy room by Professor Tamagawa of Okayama University. The photo below that shows two people, both wearing white lab coats. One is seated, wearing glasses, and writing. They are mostly facing toward the camera, but slightly angled, and they are looking down at what they are writing. The other person is standing next to a table, we mostly see their side profile from head to toe. They are wearing dark pants and shoes, their sleeves are rolled up, a dark apron is tied over their white lab coat, and they also wear a white hat or scarf. This person is looking down at what looks to be an organ on their table, with one hand visibly hovering above it. The room they are standing in looks like it is made up of incomplete wooden slats for the walls and floor, with large spaces in between. There is a white jug on the table, a white tray or dish, and in the foreground are rows of glass bottles and jars of various sizes with cork tops. The text below the picture reads, "Professor Tamagawa in the autopsy room of the Communications Department Hospital at Hiroshima. (Bunka-Sha photograph)."

Two pictures are seen in black and white. The top photo features what looks to be a two-story building behind a wall. The windows are empty of glass. There is a rooftop of a smaller building about in the middle of the larger building. The text below the picture reads, "The Communications Department Hospital seen from the rear (1,400 meters). The low building behind the central portion of the wall at the rear of the hospital was used as an autopsy room by Professor Tamagawa of Okayama University. The photo below that shows two people, both wearing white lab coats. One is seated, wearing glasses, and writing. They are mostly facing toward the camera, but slightly angled, and they are looking down at what they are writing. The other person is standing next to a table, we mostly see their side profile from head to toe. They are wearing dark pants and shoes, their sleeves are rolled up, a dark apron is tied over their white lab coat, and they also wear a white hat or scarf. This person is looking down at what looks to be an organ on their table, with one hand visibly hovering above it. The room they are standing in looks like it is made up of incomplete wooden slats for the walls and floor, with large spaces in between. There is a white jug on the table, a white tray or dish, and in the foreground are rows of glass bottles and jars of various sizes with cork tops. The text below the picture reads, "Professor Tamagawa in the autopsy room of the Communications Department Hospital at Hiroshima. (Bunka-Sha photograph)."

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