World War Two Medical History Of

Richard C Hudson

IN FRONT OF

CUARTEL DE ESPANA

1942 MIXED MALARIAL INFECTION WHILE ON BATAAN CAMPAIGN. TREATED WITH QUININE IRREGULARLY. AFTER CAPTURE HAD NO TREATMENT. DEVELOPED JAUNDICE FOR WHICH NO TREATMENT WAS AVAILABLE. IN JULY 1942, IN JUNGLE OF TAYABAS PROVINCE WHILE A MEMBER OF A POW LABOR PARTY, I DEVELOPED BLOOD POISONING OF THE RIGHT HAND. TREATED THIS WITH FOUR (4) SULFADIAZINE TABLETS. ON 19 JULY 1942, DEVELOPED AMOEBIC DYSE NTERY. NO TREATMENT AVAILABLE. MALARIA WORSENED. DAILY CHILLS AND FEVER. WAS SENT TO BILIBID PRISON IN MANILA ON 21 JULY. NAVAL MEDICAL PERSONNEL CURED BLOOD POISON WITH SOME KIND OF SULFA DRUG. RECEIVED 15 GRAINS OF QUININE PER DAY UNTIL MALARIA BECAME INACTIVE. DTSENTERY INCAPACITATED ME. IN AUGUST, RECEIVED THREE (3) SMALL INJE CTIONS OF EMETINE. DYSENTERY CONTINUED BUT MODERATED. EYESIGHT BEGAN TO FAIL, AND AT THE SAME TIME GENITALS TURNED GREEN, SHRIVELED AND SCROTUM CRACKED, FEET DEVELOPED A BURNING, TINGLING SENSATION BETWEEN TOES AND INSTEP. ALL THESE SYMPTOMS ABATED UPON DRINKING COD LIVER OIL.

1943 SPORADIC MALARIAL ATTACKS OF LESSENING SEVERITY. DYSENTERY SLOWLY ABATED AND BY JANURARY 1944, CEASED TO TROUBLE ME.

1944 EDEMATOUS BERI BERI BECAME CHRONIC.

1945 ACCOMPANIED BY PELLAGRA AND SCURVY, HAD HOOKWORM AND TWO OTHER TYPES OF WORMS. NO FORMAL TREATMENT RECEIVED. ATE TANGERINE SKINS. DEVELOPED SEVERE EDEMA WHICH WAS TREATED WITH SOAP PELLETS, REDUCING SWELLING BY MEANS OF DRASTIC DIARRHEA.

RETURNED TO U. S. CUSTODY IN SEPTEMBER 1945

AND HOSPITALIZED AT MADIGAN GENERAL HOSPITAL UNTIL 1946.