Nurse's Notes

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The Nurse’s Notes

Introduction – What are the Nurse’s Notes?
How the HTML Differs from the Photocopy
Editorial Protocol
Missing Pages and Other Aberrations
Highlighted: Visitors & Insulin Treatments
Insulin Shock
Court Historians
Other Medication
Watch Schedule
Note Conventions
The Nurse’s Notes
Thoughts on Reading the Nurse’s Notes
Why Suicide
Why Murder
Who Did It

Introduction

Here you will find the complete text of the Nurse’s Notes from the appendix to the Willcutts Report on the death of James Forrestal. First a little background and why the Notes are important.

James Forrestal was kept under round-the-clock observation during his stay at Bethesda Naval Hospital. The watch maintained a record of his progress, handwritten on forms titled “Nurse’s Notes.” They take up several dozen pages of the Willcutts Report’s appendix. Here they are typed and all placed on a single webpage, what we shall call the HTML version of the Nurse’s Notes.

Likening the Nurse’s Notes to a window into Forrestal’s hospital suite, and the disorder, poor handwriting, and photocopy “static” to dust and grime obscuring our view, the transcription below wipes the window clean so we obtain a clearer glimpse of Forrestal during what turned out to be the last 50 days of his life. In a limited way the Nurse’s Notes allow Forrestal to speak for himself so that we can evaluate his personality and the way he was treated ourselves. Mostly mundane, at times the Notes are most revealing.

How the HTML Differs from the Photocopy

Before we get to the Nurse’s Notes, how does the HTML version differ from the photocopy furnished by the Navy?

In the HTML version two numbers, a date, and the day of the week head each page:

# exhibit number [photocopy page number] date weekday

The left number appears on the photocopies at or near the bottom right corner and without the #. These are exhibit numbers – or rather sub-numbers under exhibit 3, but here we simply call them the exhibit numbers – and were written around the time the Notes were entered into the exhibits of the Navy’s investigation. When the date spans two days, the weekday we furnish is that of the second day.

We have numbered the photocopy pages provided by the Navy, the light green number in brackets; it is not on the actual page of the Nurse’s Notes. (Add 97 to our bracketed number to obtain the page number in the PDF file at Princeton’s Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library.)

The photocopy pages of the Nurse’s Notes are out of order. The HTML version returns them to their original, chronological, order, consequently the photocopy page numbers, in brackets, are out of order here.

Each of these page numbers in the HTML version is a link. Clicking it will display the actual photocopy page, with one change: since the photocopy is of a photostat, which is a negative (white on black) of the original, here the negative of this has been taken to restore the image to a positive (black on white). Per the next paragraph, which describes the editorial protocol used to convert the handwritten notes to HTML, scholars wishing to quote from this webpage should refer to the photocopy as well.

Editorial Protocol for the Nurse’s Notes

Unlike the HTML version of the body of the Willcutts Report, which scrupulously reproduces the original’s capitalization, punctuation, spelling and format, in the Nurse’s Notes we have silently modified these trivial aspects in the interest of readability. The abbreviation consisting of the letter C with a dash over it, standing for “with” (after the Latin), has been expanded, as have a few other abbreviations, the most frequent being “ask” for “asked.” We omit the text of the blank printed form on which the notes are written. We omit the number written on the front pages under “WARD NO.” – in this case the room number 1618. We omit the number written under “REGISTER NO.” – always 162220 (the same number typed on Forrestal’s hospital Admission Notice). Poor grammar is retained but not sic’ed. Insubstantial corrections are silently followed. The apothecary symbol for oz is rendered as Z. Sometimes a nurse will sign his entries even when there is no change in the nurse writing the notes; these extra signatures are omitted. We use the date as a heading and omit it within the notes. X’s indicate illegible manuscript. A question mark in brackets indicates some doubt about the previous word. Anything in brackets is ours.

Missing Pages and Other Aberrations

Eleven pages of Nurse’s Notes — #51 to #53, #61 to #64, #74, #76, #166, #167 — are missing from the Willcutts Report, or at least from the photocopy of it furnished by the Navy. We indicate these gaps where they occur.

Some original exhibit numbers are overwritten in the photocopy: (1) The orginal #75 was overwritten by #74, the original of which is missing. So the reader is aware of the gap we have retained the original #75 and only indicated the overwriting. (2) Numbers originally in the range #76 to #100 were each incrased by one: #77 to #101. With the changed numbering #76 is missing, and there are two #101s.

The two #101s are pages [88] and [87], which according to the time indications belong in that reversed order. Per above, the #101 on [88] was originally #100 then the last zero was overwritten by a one. (This is very clear on the photocopy, despite the reverse – #101 to #100 – fixing the duplication.)

Four pages of the photocopy — [83], [84], [85], [86] — are identical to previous pages: [79], [81], [82], [79] respectively. Leaving off the brackets: 79, 83 and 86 are triplicates of exhibit #96 (overwriting #95 per above), 81 and 84 are duplicates of #99 (overwriting #98), 82 and 85 are duplicates of #100 (overwriting #99).

Highlighted: Visitors & Insulin Treatments

Forrestal’s visitors who were not directly involved with his care are printed in blue and the entry highlighted with a light yellow background. (We have included Rear Admiral Clifford Swanson in this category of visitor even though he was Surgeon General and head of the Medical Corps. He was an ear nose and throat specialist but apparently did not visit in that capacity.)

Because Forrestal was not really himself at the end of the higher dosage insulin treatments (see next section), the medication column is highlighted during the insulin treatments, each of which lasted three hours, with a light purple background to emphasize that the notes during this time differ in context from the others.

Insulin Shock

The history of psychiatry – mainstream, official, accredited – is replete with cockamamie schemes alleged to help people labeled “patient” (as if their problem were organic) that in fact harm them. Surely insulin therapy is one of the worst. Fortunately the dosages given Forrestal by the well-meaning doctors at Bethesda Naval Hospital were sub-coma, about one third to one half of that required to induce coma. However it is clear from the notes that the last several, higher dosage, treatments which Forrestal endured did assault his central nervous system in a major way. During these “insulin shocks” he seemed to be “in a fog,” had a “glassy stare,” once confused a greeting card with a piece of toast, suffered twitching of the limbs, photophobia, etc. Except during these treatments nothing remotely like this is reported in the notes, though the photophobia – aversion to light – lasted some time afterwards. Clearly Forrestal survived the treatments rather than benefited from them.

“Insulin therapy” is performed by injecting a large amount of insulin into the bloodstream. This insulin shock, as it is called, suddenly lowers the blood glucose level. In a word, insulin shock is artificially induced hypoglycemia. (The degree of this hypoglycemia depends on the individual and their initial glucose level, besides on the amount of insulin injected.) The principal consequence is to starve the brain of glucose, its fuel, which eventually causes sweating, restlessness, depression, confusion, tremor, seizures, coma, and death. The quacks, or rather doctors, interrupt this progression by giving the victim a sugary beverage.

Insulin therapy is like trying to repair a radio – assuming it was broken in the first place – by banging on the case with a hammer. Forrestal seems to have trusted the men in white coats to know what they were doing. None of the notes record him objecting to these treatments, though his reaction to the last suggests that at that point he would have.

(Like all fads eventually insulin therapy became passé. However the psychiatric establishment never admitted it was harmful, only “no better” than what became the next fad. For more on the psychiatric profession’s use of drugs see Toxic Psychiatry by Peter Breggin, M.D.)

After the “sub-shock” series of treatments was over the doctors continued to give Forrestal smaller “stimulating” doses of insulin – small doses (say not over 10 units) are initially stimulating and then temporarily enfeebling – right up to the end.

It should be noted that insulin is not a psychotropic drug, such as LSD or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (Prozac and the like). Doubtless the insulin treatments weakened Forrestal physically, but they would not have caused psychosis or a psychotic episode. Arguing “Forrestal killed himself because insulin therapy drove him crazy.” is as fallacious as arguing “Forrestal killed himself because Drew Pearson said he was crazy.”

Court Historians

Court historians, as David Martin – following Harry Elmer Barnes – calls intellectuals who falsify history in order to promote the agenda of the powers that be, have a hard time of it in these days of the Internet. Though a process of pernicious selective quotation from the Nurse’s Notes could make Forrestal look bad, a complete and honest reading shows a man concerned about his personal appearance, curious about his surroundings and the world outside, proud of his family, helpful to the corpsmen, interested in their careers and ambitions, at first patient – as in “enduring” – yet into the second month anxious to escape, by the seventh week apparently wondering what the hell was going on. In short he acted as any reasonable man would have acted finding himself in a similar situation.

Forrestal failed to realize what he was up against. Paranoid? He should have been more suspicious, much more.

Other Medication

Besides insulin Forrestal was treated with several other substances during his stay at Bethesda:

Coramine – trade name of nikethamide, it acts as a stimulant. Used to treat low blood pressure.
Dextrose – the kind of sugar the body uses, the right-hand isomer of glucose.
Liver extract – an iron supplement used to treat anemia and consequent fatigue.
Metamucil – trade name fiber supplement and stool softener.
Phenobarbital – acts as a sedative. It can be used to ease withdrawal from another barbiturate, such as sodium amytal (amobartital).
Phospho soda – trade name laxative which acts by drawing water to the lower bowel from the rest of the body.
Sodium amytal – also called amobarbital, it acts as a sedative. Can cause confusion on awakening. Odorless and a slightly bitter taste. An overdose causes sleeplessness and severe confusion. Once thought to be a “truth serum” when given in large doses.
Sodium phosphate – one of the two principal ingredients of Phospho soda, see above, and having the same effect.
Thiamin – vitamin B₁. Used to treat fatigue caused by thiamin deficiency.

Watch Schedule

The watch kept on Forrestal was divided into three shifts each lasting approximately eight hours. The nominal times, in military and civilian format, were

First shift 0800 – 1600 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Second shift 1600 – 2400 4:00 pm – midnight
Third shift 2400 – 0800 midnight – 8:00 am

however the actual times vary, sometimes by over an hour.

The following hospital corpmen worked full shifts at various times:

W. R. Breon 52 shifts throughout Forrestal’s stay.
R. W. Harrison    1 shift and part of a second at the end.
J. M. Kelley 31 shifts during the first three fifths of Forrestal’s stay.
Iver P. Kipp    3 shifts near the beginning.
E. W. Prise 46 shifts throughout Forrestal’s stay.
C. F. Stuthers 17 shifts near the end, replaced by Harrison at the end.

Most corpsmen who did watch duty only to briefly relieve a full shift watch (e.g. for lunch) are not identified in the Notes. The following, not among the above, are identified:

J. C. Woods once, lunch April 4.
W. M. Water    five times, lunch April 7, 9, 11, 12, 13.
C. L. M. once, about an hour at start of first watch April 30.

Below is the schedule for all the corpsmen on full shifts. If missing pages encompassed an entire corpsman’s watch he was “interpolated” from the corpsmen on the preceding and following days (fortunately always both the same) and printed in gray. (These are used in the counts above.) Partially missing or unsigned notes were identified by the handwriting.

April 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
0800 to 1600 Breon Kipp Kipp Kipp Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise
1600 to 2400 Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon
midnight 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
2400 to 0800 Breon   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley

April 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
0800 to 1600 Prise Prise Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon
1600 to 2400 Breon Breon Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley   Kelley
midnight 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1
2400 to 0800 Kelley   Kelley   Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise

May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
0800 to 1600 Breon Breon   Breon Breon Breon Prise Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon
1600 to 2400 Kelley    Prise Prise Prise Prise Breon Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise
midnight 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
2400 to 0800 Prise Prise Stuthers Stuthers Stuthers Stuthers Stuthers Stuthers Stuthers Stuthers Stuthers Stuthers Stuthers Stuthers Stuthers

May 16 17 18 19 20 21
0800 to 1600 Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon Breon
1600 to 2400 Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise Prise
midnight 17 18 19 20 21 22
2400 to 0800 Stuthers Stuthers Stuthers Stuthers Harrison Harrison

April	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
0800 to 1600		Breon	Kipp	Kipp	Kipp	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise
1600 to 2400		Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon
midnight	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
2400 to 0800	Breon	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley

April	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
0800 to 1600	Prise	Prise	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon
1600 to 2400	Breon	Breon	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley	Kelley
midnight	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	1
2400 to 0800	Kelley	Kelley	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise

May	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
0800 to 1600	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Prise	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon
1600 to 2400	Kelley	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Breon	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise
midnight	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
2400 to 0800	Prise	Prise	Stuthers	Stuthers	Stuthers	Stuthers	Stuthers	Stuthers	Stuthers	Stuthers	Stuthers	Stuthers	Stuthers	Stuthers	Stuthers

May	16	17	18	19	20	21
0800 to 1600	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon	Breon
1600 to 2400	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise	Prise
midnight	17	18	19	20	21	22
2400 to 0800	Stuthers	Stuthers	Stuthers	Stuthers	Harrison	Harrison

At night, besides the corpsman in the room with Forrestal or at the nurse’s desk right outside his door, a doctor was on call in the adjoining room, where the doctor would sleep. His shift lasted approximately from 1630 to 0830 (4:30 pm to 8:30 the next morning) – this according to the Willcutts Report testimony of Dr. Hightower, question 4. The “doctors’ room,” as it was called, was separated from Forrestal’s by a shared bathroom with a door on each side.

David P. Hightower and Robert Reynolds Deen alternated this watch each night, except – generalizing from the Report testimony of Dr. Hightower, question 15 – watching two consecutive nights on weekends. On the night beginning Friday May 20 Dr. Hightower was on call (his Report testimony, question 13), and the night beginning Saturday May 21 Dr. Deen was on call (his Report testimony, question 14).

Note Conventions

A few remarks follow concerning various conventions used by the nurses when writing their notes. A nurse – here a male navy hospital corpsman – always refers to himself in the third person. Thus when “the corpsman” is the subject or object of a sentence, it means “I” or “me.” When a nurse writes “so-and-so to see patient” he refers not to the future but to the time of writing, that is, “so-and-so in to see patient.” “O” in quotes indicates that the preceding medicine was given orally. “Complain” means to state a problem, no peevishness is implied. The dosage of a solid oral medicine is measured by weight in grains, one grain being about 65 mg. Liquid oral medicines are measured in ounces and written preceded by the apothecary symbol for ounce, which we have rendered as “Z.” Numerically both grains and ounces are usually written in lowercase roman numerals, with “ss” meaning ½ (for example ivss means 4 ½). Regarding an injection I.M. stands for intramuscular. All times are military: 1200 is noon, 2400 midnight, and in general if the military time is 1259 or less just insert a colon (then add a.m. if less than 1200, otherwise p.m.), if 1300 or greater subtract 1200 before inserting the colon (then add p.m. if less than 2400, otherwise a.m.). Thus if military time begins with 0, 11 or 24 it is morning.

Another convention that warrants an explanation regards the statement “Patient terminated.” It means the treatment was terminated, not the patient ! Unfortunately the humor in that observation gets lost in the nature of the treatment and subsequent events.

Room 1618 · Bethesda Naval Hospital · 1949
Nurse’s Notes
#30 [21] April 2 – April 3 Sunday

0430	Reg. diet. Suicidal precautions.	Assumed special watch. [Breon] Pt ate fairly well at dinner tonight. E.E.G. run on Pt. Pt seems friendly. Pt restless, throws himself around in bed.
1920	Sod. amytal gr vi	“O”. Pt still restless, but states he can go to sleep.
1920	Phospho soda Z ii
2000		Pt asleep at this time.
2100		Pt asleep.
2200		Pt asleep.
2300		Pt asleep.
2345	Sod. amytal gr iii	Given “O”. Pulse was not taken at 2130, 2230 because Pt was awakened at 2030 when it was taken. Watch relieved.
2350		W. R. Breon, HN
2430		Pt asleep. Pt resting at present. [Kelley]
0130		Pt asleep.
0230		Pt asleep.
0330		Pt asleep.
0430		Pt asleep.
0530		Pt asleep. Pt resting fine at present.

#31 [22] April 3 Sunday

0630		Pt awake. Sat up in bed and asked what time it was. Pt now is just resting.
0730	Insulin units 10 30 m/l	Given. Pt still awake. Pt restless. Throws himself around in bed.
0745		Watch relieved. J. M. Kelley, HN
0750		Pt sleeping lightly, moving occasionally from side to side. [Kipp]
0815		Pt ate a good breakfast. Conversed slightly (said breakfast was very good). Then turned over & closed his eyes.
0845		Pt seen by Dr. Smith. Got up from bed & went into bathroom; but when the special watch followed him in he turned around & went back to his bed.
0915		Dr. Lang @ this time dropped by to inquire about Pt. No remarks.
0940		Pt shaved & showered @ this time. Still dizzy from sedation. Pt shaves & showers with quick, exact movements. Helped to clean shower room & make bed.

#32 [23] April 3 Sunday

1000		Pt asked to see Adm. Swanson; Dr. Smith notified. Pt states “It is of the utmost importance for the Navy.” Slightly agitated.
1005	Na amytal grs vi, “O”	Still asking for Adm. Swanson.
1010		Pt seen by Dr. Raines @ this time.
1040		Pt sleeping very soundly.
1130		Pt still sleeping.
1200		Pt was startled awake @ this time. He got up immediately &, with the assistance of the corpsman, he went into the head, brushed his teeth & then took a cold bath. He then went back to his bed, crawled into it & immediately fell asleep.
1225		Pt ate dinner; appetite fair. Still groggy from sedation.
1240		Dr. Raines & Dr. Hogan to see Pt.
1330	Crude liver extract 1 cc Thiamin HCl 1 cc } IM
1400		Pt sleeping soundly.
1445		Pt woke up just for a moment & then went back to sleep.

#33 [24] April 3 Sunday

1500	B.P. 108/72, P 68	Pt got up, took off his PJ pants, and stated that he was going to get dressed because someone was going to take him away from here. When told that Dr. Raines would be up in 15 minutes, he said “Oh!”, put on his pants, & crawled back in bed.
1600		Watch relieved. Iver P. Kipp, HM3
1600		Relieved the watch. Pt doesn’t seem to be sleeping. Pt is resting quietly. [Breon]
1650	Insulin 10 U	Given. Pt awake at time of injection.
1700		Adm. Swanson to see Pt. Pt requested that Att. Gen. T. Clark be notified. Pt awake at time of visit.
1725	Reg. diet	Dinner served. Pt did not eat a great deal. Could not be talked into it. He eats extremely fast.
1745	Sodium amytal grs vi Fleet’s Phospho soda Z i in H₂O 200 cc	Pt to head. Back to bed.

#34 [25] April 3 Sunday

1800	Back rub	Given. Pt encouraged to brush teeth. Back to bed.
1810	175 cc milk	Pt drank. Did not want the whole glass.
1845		Pt up to head. Very watery stools. Pt given clean PJ pants.
1900		Pt resting quietly.
1905	150 cc H₂O	Pt to head 3 times in 5 minutes for B.M. Watery stools each time. Pt states the Phospho soda must be good “stuff”.
1910		To head again! For B.M.
1925		To head again! For B.M.
1950	240 cc orange juice	To head again. B.M. seems to be nothing but water now.
2000	B/P 92/58 P 60	Pt talking in sleep. Could not understand, but had something to do with “cabinet”.
2030	B/P 80/52 P 54 R 20	Nurse notified of B/P. e X Seen by Dr. Hightower.
2045	Coramine 1.5 cc I.M.	Given as ordered.
2055	B.P. 86/54 P 54 R 18	Pt sleeping.

#35 [26] April 3 – April 4 Monday

2130	B/P 80/64 P 54 R 18	Nurse notified. Dr. Smith called.
2200	B/P 78/62 P 54 R 20	Pt opened eyes but closed them right away & went back to sleep.
2215		Pt stirring but still asleep.
2245		Pt up to head. Clean PJ pants & bed changed. Back to bed.
2300	B/P 82/60 P 52 R 18	Pt to head.
2330	B/P 88/68 P 60 R 20	Pt resting fine now.
2400	B/P 90/70 P 56 R 18	Pt sleeping.
2400		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
		Pt resting fine at present. [Kelley]
0100		Pt sleeping. Has been resting fine for the past hour.
0135	150 cc H₂O	Pt to head for B.M. Watery stool. Pt asked for glass of H₂O. Pt then returned to bed.
0200	B/P 90/70 P 59 R 18	Pt resting fine at present. Pt is not asleep.
0300		Pt sleeping. Resting fine at present.

#36 [27] April 4 Monday

0400	B/P 86/60 P 54 R 20	Pt awoke while B/P was being taken.
0500		Pt sleeping.
0600	B/P 98/62 P 56 R 18	Pt sleeping sound at present. Has been a little restless the past half hour. Pt throws arms from side to side.
0630	200 cc H₂O	Pt had some H₂O then pulled the covers over him. Pt trying to go back to sleep.
0650		Pt sprang up in bed and asked what time it was. Pt then laid down.
0700		Pt not asleep.
0710	150 cc H₂O	Pt went to head for B.M. Watery stool. Clean P.J. pants and then back to bed.
0745		Watch relieved. J. M. Kelley, HN
0745		Assumed watch. Pt asleep. [Kipp]
0800	B/P 102/70 P 60 R 16
0810		Pt had a small BM, no solid particles.
0835	Reg insulin 10 U	Seen by Dr. Smith & Dr. Hightower.
0855		Pt asking for breakfast.
0910		Pt ate an excellent breakfast.

#37 [28] April 4 Monday

0920		Pt was asked to shave & shower. He immediately complied. Slightly groggy from medication but had no difficulties with this routine.
0925		Dr. Raines to see Pt.
1140	Liver extract 1 cc Thiamin HCl 1 cc } IM B/P 108/68 P 62 R 20 Weight 148	Pt conversing slightly. Very abrupt questions about sp. watches, past and present life, about living conditions now, prices & naval career.
1220		Pt ate a good dinner.
1230		During relief watch Pt asked this corpsman “What religion are you?” After reply – “Catholic” – he said “Don’t lose it.” After a few seconds elapsed, corpsman asked “Are you Catholic.” [Pt replied] “I was, but I lost it. I would appreciate it if you would say a few prayers for me the next time you go to church.” J. C. Woods
1245		Pt desires to see Adm. Swanson. Dr. Raines notified.

#38 [29] April 4 Monday

1300	Sod. amytal grs iii	Pt sleeping soundly @ 1320.
1400	P 54 R 16	Pt only resting now.
1420		Dr. Raines to see Pt.
1500		Pt sleeping soundly.
1600	BP 108/64 P 58 R 18	Pt resting with eyes closed.
1620		Watch relieved. Iver P. Kipp, HM3
1620		Assumed watch. WRB
1630		Pt asleep.
1650	Insulin 10 U	Given. Pt awake asking if Dr. Raines will be up to see him this evening.
1725	Dinner: Coffee 150 cc Milk 100 cc	Pt ate fairly well. Drank some milk and coffee, ate a good bit of the rest. Pt asked corpsman many questions as to Navy career, future, etc.
1735	Na amytal gr iii	Given with 200 cc orange juice. Dr. Raines to see Pt. No orders other than what there is. Pt awake.
1835		Pt asleep. Adm. Swanson to see Pt.

#39 [30] April 4 – April 5 Tuesday

1900		Pt asleep @ this time.
2000	B/P 100/64 P 54 R 18	Pt woke up to have B/P taken. Went to sleep again.
2100	Na amytal gr iii Back rub with alcohol	Given as verbal orders of Capt. Raines. Pt has been in bed all evening. Asleep a great deal of the time. Pt changes positions frequently.
2200	P 56 R 18	Pt asleep at this time. Skin feels slightly damp.
2300		Pt changed position but apparently still asleep.
2355		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
2400	B/P 104/66 P 54 R 18	Pt still asleep. Has changed positions several times in the last few minutes. [Kelley]
0100		Pt sleeping well at present.
0200	P 58 R 20	Pt sleeping at present.
0215		Pt awake.
0230		Pt now asleep.
0300		Pt sleeping. Has been resting well so far tonight.
0400	B/P 106/64 P 56 R 18	Pt sleeping at present. Pt moves from one side of the bed to the other.

#40 [31] April 5 Tuesday

0500		Pt sleeping. Pt has been a little restless the past hour.
0545		Pt awake. Said he had a good night’s rest.
0600	P 58 R 18 240 cc orange juice	Pt had orange juice. Said it was very good. Pt then laid down and pulled sheet up over him. Pt now resting.
0615		Pt asked what was outside? Pt said he could hear the birds and wondered how the weather was outside. Pt was given answer by corpsman. Pt thanked corpsman, then laid down.
0700		Pt to head. Pt then returned to bed. Pt asked a few questions to the corpsman of his Navy career, also corpsman’s name and what state he was from.
0715	240 cc H₂O	Pt given 240 cc H₂O.
0730	Insulin 10 U	Given. Pt asked if Dr. Raines would be here this morning to see him.

#41 [32] April 5 Tuesday

0750		Watch relieved. J. M. Kelley, HN
0750		Watch assumed. Pt awake, said “Good morning”. [Kipp]
0800		Adm. Swanson to see Pt. Breakfast served.
0810		Pt ate a small amt. of cereal, 1 piece of toast, drank his coffee, juice & only a small sip of milk.
0820		Pt shaved & showered. Talked about psychosis; that is, his viewpoints on it in comparison with religious fanatics. Asked me how many books I had read on N.P. [*] & did I plan on furthering my studies.
0830		Pt helped to make bed.
0845		Pt got up; sat in easy chair. Was asked if he wished to smoke. Pt paused, then said “Yes, I believe I do.”
0900		Relieved for pay day.
0930		Dr. Raines to see Pt.
1020		Dr. Menninger to see Pt.

[* Perhaps neuropsychology or neuropsychiatry.]

#42 [33] April 5 Tuesday

1100		Pt sitting in chair smoking pipe.
1120		Pt changed to rm. 1615 temporarily.
1125	Sod. amytal grs ivss
1130	BP 110/72 P 66 R 18	Relieved watch for chow. ( E. W. Prise, HN Pt lying comfortably in bed talking with me.
1220		Pt up and to head. Upon returning said “I’m afraid I won’t be a very good companion from now on because of the sedative.” Pt quiet and resting.
1250		Relieved by reg. day watch. Pt sleeping. E. W. Prise )
1300		Pt sleeping soundly.
1400	BP 108/74 P 60 R 18	Pt awake. Asked permission to see a padre. Dr. Raines notified. Pt was asked to wait until tomorrow until Dr. Raines could speak to him again. Pt complied.

#43 [34] April 5 Tuesday

1410		Dr. Raines to see Pt.
1615		Watch relieved. Iver Kipp, HM3
1615		Assumed watch. WRB
1630	Sod. amytal gr iss	Pt awake resting quietly.
1640	B/P 108/76 P 62 R 18	Pt resting.
1650	Insulin 10 U	Given as ordered.
1700		Pt asleep.
1725	Dinner	Dinner served @ this time. Pt awake. Pt ate one egg and some spinach, dish of ice cream, 1/2 cup coffee & app., 50 cc H₂O, 1 slice bread.
1755		Pt up to head to brush teeth. Pt requested his back rub now.
1800	Alcohol back rub	Given at Pt’s request. Pt asking questions as to corpsman’s family & future.
1805	P 56 R 18	Pt quiet.
1835		Pt got up and said he wanted to see something. He picked up the paper, put his glasses on, and started paging through the paper.

#44 [35] April 5 – April 6 Wednesday

		He apparently didn’t find what he wanted as [i.e., by the time] Dr. Smith came to see Pt.
1900		Pt back in bed. Dr. Smith left.
1950	Sod. amytal gr ivss Phospho soda Z ss	Given as ordered. Pt still asking questions.
2000	B/P 122/74 P 54 R 20	Pt resting quietly.
2030		Pt up to head.
2100		Pt to head for B.M. Watery stools.
2110		To head for B.M.
2130		To head 3 times since 2100.
2200	P 54 R 18	Pt apparently sleeping.
2300		Pt asleep.
2345		Pt tossing and turning.
2355		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
2355		Assumed watch. (JMK)
2400	B/P 114/70 P 58 R 18	Pt sleeping.
0100		Pt is a little restless.
0130	Na amytal gr iss	Given.
0200	P 56 R 20	Pt is still awake. He has been

#45 [36] April 6 Wednesday

		very quiet for the past half hour.
0230		Pt is still awake.
0300		Pt is awake but is very quiet.
0400	B/P 96/58 P 46 R 16	Pt sleeping fine at present. Pt awoke while B/P was being taken.
0600		Pt asleep and resting fine at present.
0600	P 52 R 18	Pt asleep.
0640		Pt awake. Pt asked what time it was.
0700		Pt still awake.
0730	Insulin 10 U	Pt asking corpsman questions about his future.
0740		Relieved watch. J. M. Kelley, HN
0745		Assumed watch. Pt awake & to head. [The handwritting of this entry differs from that of the previous and following entry.]
0915		Relieved watch. Pt sitting up in bed. Said he is feeling somewhat better. E. W. Prise, HN
0945		Pt visited by Dr. Raines.
1200	Sod. amytal grs 4iss	Dr. Raines left. Pt given lunch. Said “I’m very hungry.”

#46 [37] April 6 Wednesday

1230		Relieved for chow. Pt smoking and talking with corpsmen. (E. W. Prise)
1230		Relieved E. W. Prise for supper. [Water]
1245		Pt talking to corpsman.
1255		Pt seems very drowsy.
1300		Pt asleep.
1324		Relieved by E. W. Price [sic, Prise] (W. M. Water)
1400	P 56 R 16	Pt sleeping very soundly. [Prise]
1530	Liver extract 1 cc Thiamin HCl 1 cc	Pt awake. Asked for book to read. Also asked if Mrs. ~~~~ was coming to visit him this afternoon.
1545		Pt visited by wife & Dr. Raines.
1615	P 52 R 18	Pt’s wife left. Pt resting nicely.
1640	Insulin 10 units	Dr. Raines still in with Pt.
1645		Relieved the watch. WRB [The order of this and the following should be reversed.]
1645		Watch relieved. E. W. Prise, HN
1700		Dr. Raines with Pt.
1725		Dr. Raines left. Pt awake.
1730	Dinner	Dinner served. Pt ate fairly well. Stated he couldn’t eat it all and it was

#47 [38] April 6 Wednesday

		a shame to waste it. He offered it to the corpsman on watch.
1750		Pt to head, brushed teeth.
1800	B/P 114/66 P 58 R 18	Pt resting in bed.
1900		Pt requesting back rub now.
1910	Alcohol back rub	Given as ordered @ Pt’s request. Pt resting quietly.
1915		Pt requesting his medication.
1920	Na amytal gr ivss	Given as ordered. Pt resting quietly.
2000	B/P 108/60 P 52 R 18	Pt resting quietly.
2100		Pt asleep.
2200	P 56 R 18	Pt awake only short time while pulse was being taken. Asked what time it was.
2230		Pt awake. Taking fluids.
2300		Pt awake.
2320	Na amytal gr iii	As ordered. Pt quiet all evening.
2345		Pt asleep at this time. Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN

#48 [41] April 6 – April 7 Thursday

2345		Assumed watch. JMK
2400	B/P 110/62 P 54 R 18	Pt asleep at this time.
0100		Pt asleep.
0200	P 58 R 18	Pt asleep.
0300		Pt asleep.
0400	B/P 118/70 P 60 R 18	Pt asleep. Pt moved quite a bit while B/P was being taken. Pt has rested very good so far tonight.
0500		Pt still asleep.
0600	P 58 R 20	Pt asleep.
0615		Pt awake. Said good morning to corpsman.
0700		Pt awake.
0715	240 cc H₂O	Pt to head. Pt brushed his teeth while in head. Pt then drank some H₂O and then returned to bed.
0730	Insulin 10 U	Given as ordered. Watch relieved. J. M. Kelley, HN
0730		Relieved night watch. Pt awake sitting in bed talking. E. W. Prise
0800	B/P 1xx/66 P 6x R 18	Pt given breakfast. States

#49 [42] April 7 Thursday

	Wt. 150 3/4	“That insulin makes you hungry and you don’t realize it.”
0810		Pt finished breakfast sitting up in chair smoking and reading.
0815		Pt given A.M. care.
0830		Visited by Dr. Smith. Pt seems to be very pleased with the care he is getting.
0900		Dr. Smith left. Pt pacing floor and smoking pipe. Pt goes to head quite frequently.
0930	Liver extract 1 cc Thiamin HCl 1 cc	Pt walking around room talking to corpsmen [plural, may be an error] & reading front page of paper.
0945		Visited by Dr. Raines.
1130		Dr. Raines left. Pt asked “When is chow?”
1155		Pt eating lunch.
1215		Relieved for chow.
1230		Lunch secured.
1235	TPR 98-45-20	Pt was very inquisitive as to his TPR. He was told by the corpsman that it was normal. (W. M. Water)

#50 [43] April 7 Thursday

1300		Relieved by E. W. Prise. (W. M. Water)
1330		Pt sleeping.
1400		Pt sleeping, is a bit restless.
1430		Pt awake. Opened package which was a book then threw it in the waste can. Asked for a pencil. Then he wrote a list of something.
1500		Pt sitting in bed talking to corpsman.
1520		Pt visited by son. When corpsman remarked on what a fine looking son he had, Pt said “Yes! He’s a fine boy.”
1600	T.P.R. 98 4-58-18	Pt visited by wife. Appears to be in very good mood.
1630		Dr. Raines with Pt.
1645		Watch relieved. E. W. Prise, HX
		Assumed watch. WRB
1700		Dr. Raines with Pt.
1710	Insulin 10 U	Given as ordered. Dr. Raines gone.
1730	Dinner	Dinner served.

#51 – #53 missing (1730⁺ April 7 to 1430 April 8)

#54 [44] April 8 Friday

1430		Pt awake. Lit up pipe and asked “I’m supposed to have some visitors this afternoon.”
1515	T.P.R. 98-58-18	Pt sitting in bed very quiet. Seems perfectly at ease.
1600		Pt visited by wife and son.
1630		Dr. Raines to see Pt.
1645		Watch relieved. E. W. Prise, HA
		Assumed watch. WRB
1720	Dinner	Dinner served. Pt ate fairly well tonight.
1730		Drank a little orange juice & some H₂O.
1735		Pt requesting his tooth brush.
1800		Pt resting.
1830		Back rub requested.
1840	Alcohol back rub.	Given at Pt’s request.
1900		Dr. Hightower made rounds.
1945	Na amytal gr vi	Per order.
2000		Pt resting in bed.
2100		Pt still awake but quiet.

#55 [45] April 8 – April 9 Saturday

2200		Pt apparently sleeping.
2300		Pt sleeping
2400		Pt asleep. Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
2400		Pt asleep. [Kelley]
0100		Pt asleep.
0200		Pt asleep. Pt has been tossing and turning quite often.
0300		Pt asleep.
0400		Pt asleep.
0500		Pt awake.
0505		Pt went to head.
0515		Pt requested to see Dr. Hightower.
0517		Dr. Hightower seeing Pt.
0530		Pt asked questions about the weather. Pt also asked who my relief was when I go off duty.
0600		Pt still awake.
0700		Pt awake. Pt went to head. Pt brushed teeth.

#56 [46] April 9 Saturday

0735		Dr. Deen to get lab work.
0745		Relieved by watch. J. M. Kelley, HN
0800	Wt 150	Relieved the watch. (EWP)
	1st day of insulin sub-shock
0815	Insulin 20 units	Pt given insulin injection. Asking about treatments.
0830	P 52 R 18 B/P 106/80	Pt lying in bed very comfortably. Visited by Dr. Smith.
0900		Pt sitting quietly in bed smoking.
0915	P 56 R 18	Dr. Smith left. Pt sitting in bed reading.
0930	B/P 110/76 P 52 R 18	Pt lying quietly in bed with eyes closed.
0935		Pt visited by Adm. Swanson.
0955		Adm. Swanson left. Pt resting.
1000	B/P 116/82 P 56 R 18	Pt sitting in bed smoking his pipe. Asked “When do we eat chow?”
1015	P 60 R 18	Pt looking around room. Resting nicely.
1030	P 56 R 18	Pt lying still in bed talking to Dr. Hightower. Says he is feeling the insulin.

#57 [47] April 9 Saturday

1045	P 52 R 18	Pt up and to head.
1100	P 54 R 20 B/P 110/82	Pt lying very still with eyes closed.
1115	240 cc OJ 20 cc glucose	Pt terminated at this time. Says he would like to have a very small lunch.
1145		Pt sitting quietly in bed.
1200	TPR 98-56-20
1230		Lunch served.
1250		Pt ate more of his lunch.
1305	Sod. amytal gr iii	Ordered by Dr. Smith on Pt’s request.
1307		Relieved by E. W. Prise. W. M. Water
1310		Returned from chow. Pt sitting up in bed talking. Appears to be feeling fairly good.
1400		Pt sleeping.
1430	Thiamin HCl 1 cc Liver extract 1 cc	Pt woke up. Struck up conversation with corpsman by saying “Prise, you must begin to regard your patients as animals in a zoo after a

#58 [48] April 9 Saturday (original incorrectly marked 4-10-49)

		while.” When I told him I didn’t, he smiled and said “That’s good.”
1530		Pt lying in bed with eyes closed but is not sleeping. Was given some saltines & orange juice on his request. Complains of being hungry.
1545	T.P.R. 98.4-58-18	Pt resting nicely.
1600		Pt visited by wife.
1635		Wife left. Pt in very good mood.
1645		Relieved by evening watch. E. W. Prise
1645		Relieved the watch. W. R. Breon, HN
1700		Pt resting comfortable.
1705		Dr. Smith to see Pt.
1730	Dr. Smith left.
1740	Dinner	Dinner served. Pt ate fairly well this evening.
1800		Pt resting.
1900		Pt requesting back rub.

#59 [49] April 9 – April 10 Sunday

1900	Alcohol backrub	Given as ordered & on Pt’s request.
1935	TPR 98-56-18 B/P 128/82	Pt stated he did not want the sandwich tonight.
1945	Na amytal gr vi	Given “O” as ordered.
2000		Pt resting.
2015		Dr. Deen made rounds.
2100		Pt apparently asleep.
2200		Pt asleep.
2300		Pt asleep.
2345		Watch relieved. W. P. Breon, HN
2350		Assumed watch. JMK
2400		Pt sleeping.
0100		Pt sleeping.
0115		Pt awake. Pt asked corpsman what time it was.
0130		Pt now asleep.
0200		Pt sleeping.
0300		Pt sleeping.
0305		Pt awake. Pt asked if window could be opened a little more.

#60 [50] April 10 Sunday

0320		Pt went to head.
0400		Pt asleep.
0500		Pt sleeping.
0530		Pt has been tossing and turning quite a bit the past half hour.
0600		Pt asleep.
0615		Pt awake. Pt asked what time it was.
0630		Pt to head.
0650		Pt to head to brush teeth.
0700		Pt just resting in bed at the present.
0740		Relieved watch. J. M. Kelley, HN
0800		Pt given A.M. care. Shave, shower, bed made etc. Given a cup of black coffee. [Prise]
	2nd day insulin sub-shock treatment
0830	Insulin 20 U T.P.R. 97.8-52-18 B/P 132/96	Pt given insulin. Is lying in bed smoking pipe. No complaints.
0845	P 54 R 18	Pt lying quietly in bed.

#61 – #64 missing (0845⁺ April 10 to 0900 April 11)

#65 [51] April 11 Monday

		in bed smoking pipe.
0900	P 56 R 20	Pt lying quietly in bed staring at ceiling.
0915	B/P 126/88 P 52 R 20	Pt resting. Asked to see Dr. Raines.
0930	P 54 R 18	Pt up and to bathroom at this time.
0945	B/P 130/92 P 52 R 18	Pt visited by Dr. Raines.
1030	B/P 124/104
1100	B/P 116/98
1110	B/P 128/102	Pt terminated.
1120		Dr. Raines left. Pt up walking around room. Says he is very hungry.
1200	98.2-52-18	Pt given lunch. Appears to be very hungry.
1215		Relieved E. W. Prise for chow.
1315		Relieved by E. W. Prise. W. M. Water
1315		Returned from chow. Pt resting. (E. W. Prise)
1320		Pt up and took a shower.
1330		Pt lying quietly in bed. States he [is] going to try and catch a nap.

#66 [52] April 11 Monday

1340		Pt sleeping.
1445		Pt awake. Up walking around & smoking pipe.
1545		Pt sitting up in bed smoking pipe, waiting for wife to visit.
1600		Pt visited by wife and son.
1615	T.P.R. 98.6-58-18	Pt’s wife & son left.
1645		Relieved by evening watch. E. W. Prise
1645		Relieved the watch. (WRB) Pt resting quietly in bed.
1700		Dr. Raines to see Pt.
1730	Dinner	Dinner served. Pt ate very well tonight. New orders given.
1800		Dr. Raines gone. Pt to head to brush teeth.
1825	Metamucil Z i	With 300 cc H₂O.
1845	Back rub (alcohol) B/P 120/72 TPR 98.8-64-18	Given at Pt’s request. Pt ready for bed. Resting comfortable.
1900	Na amytal gr vi	Given as ordered.

#67 [53] April 11 – April 12 Tuesday

1910		Dr. Hightower made rounds.
2000		Pt awake, resting quietly.
2100		Pt asleep.
2200		Pt asleep.
2300		Pt awake.
2320	Na amytal gr iii	As ordered for sleep.
2400		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
2400		Assumed watch. (JMK) Pt asleep.
0100		Pt sleeping. Pt has been quite restless for the past half hour.
0200		Pt sleeping.
0300		Pt sleeping.
0400		Pt sleeping.
0500		Pt sleeping.
0600		Pt still sleeping. Pt has slept good all night.
0630		Pt awake. Pt asked what time it was.
0645		Pt to head. Pt asked what time would his coffee be ready.

#68 [54] April 12 Tuesday

0700		Pt awake. Resting quietly.
0745		Pt asked if he could shave now before he had his coffee.
0750		Pt given A.M. care.
0800		Watch relieved. J. M. Kelley, HN
	4th day of sub-shock insulin
0800	Insulin 35 U B/P 112/86 T 98.8-62-14	Pt given insulin shot. Sitting in bed. Seems to be in a very good mood. E. W. Prise
0815	P 58 R 18	Pt lying quietly in bed. Is very cooperative.
0825		Pt visited by Adm. Swanson.
0840	B/P 98/64 P 54 R 18	Adm. Swanson left. Pt has a slight perspiration. Pt visited by Dr. Smith.
0930	B/P 108/90 P 56 R 18	Dr. Smith left. Pt lying in bed talking. Skin slightly flushed.
0945	P 52 R 18	Pt states he [“]should be very hungry by noon”.

#69 [55] April 12 Tuesday

1000	P 54 R 18	Pt sleeping.
1015	P 56 R 18	Pt still sleeping.
1030	B/P 114/66 P 56 R 18	Pt visited by Dr. Raines.
1100	B/P 120/102 P 58 R 18	Pt terminated. Had a very slight shaking while drinking his dextrose & orange juice.
1200		Dr. Raines left. Lunch served to Pt.
1210		Relieved for chow. E. W. Prise
1230		Lunch secured. Pt ate a very good lunch today.
1240	T.P.R. 98.6-64-20
1315		Relieved by E. W. Prise. W. M. Water
1315	Wt. 149	Returned from chow. Room cleaned & rug laid. Pt resting quietly.
1430		Pt was up walking around. Asked corpsman for cigarette. Crawled into bed and smoked it.
1450		Pt visited by wife & son.
1515		Pt’s wife left. Pt taking

#70 [56] April 12 – April 13 Wednesday

		shower.
1530		Pt visited by Dr. Raines.
1600	T.P.R. 98.6-60-18	Dr. Raines still visiting Pt.
1640		Relieved by evening watch. E. W. Prise
1640		Relieved the watch. WRB
1700		Pt resting quietly.
1730	Dinner	Dinner served. Pt ate fairly well.
1750		Dr. Raines to see Pt.
1820		Dr. Raines left.
1845	Alcohol back rub B/P 132/78 TPR 98.6-54-18	Given as ordered. Pt seems slightly restless tonight.
1900	Na amytal gr vi	As ordered. Dr. Deen made rounds.
1930		Pt given sandwich and glass of orange juice.
2000		Pt awake.
2100		Pt asleep.
2200		Pt sleeping.
2300		Pt sleeping.
2400		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
		Assumed watch. JMK

#71 [39] April 13 Wednesday

2400		Pt awake. Pt asked for something to put him to sleep.
2410		Pt to head.
2440	Na. amytal gr iii	Pt now resting. Said he was very pleased to get the pill.
0100		Pt still awake.
0130		Pt asleep.
0130		Pt asleep.
0200		Pt asleep.
0300		Pt asleep.
0400		Pt asleep.
0500		Pt asleep.
0600		Pt asleep.
0630		Pt awake.
0700		Pt resting quietly.
0730		Pt to head.
0745		Pt given AM care.
0750	Wt. 148	Relieved watch. J. M. Kelley, HN
0750		Relieved the watch. [Prise] Pt sitting quietly in bed. Given black coffee. Appears to be in a very good mood this morning.

#72 [40] April 13 Wednesday

	5th day sub-shock insulin
0800	T.P.R. x78-54-18 B.P. 108/86 Insulin 40 units	Pt given insulin injection. Lying very quietly in bed smoking pipe.
0815	P 52 R 18	Pt still sitting in bed smoking.
	P 56 R 18	Pt sitting very quietly in bed.
0830	B/P 116/92 P 52 R 18	Pt visited by Adm. Swanson.
0850		Adm. Swanson left. Pt still the same.
0855		Pt visited by Dr. Smith.
0940	B/P 122/92 P 54 R 14	Dr. Smith left. Pt sitting quietly in bed.
0955		Pt complaining of dizziness.
1000	B/P 122/88 P 62 R 20	Pt sitting in bed reading mail.
1015	P 58 R 18	Pt reading mail.
1030	B/P 120/92 P 58 R 18	Pt’s skin is slightly flushed and cold. Slight perspiration on upper lip & forehead.
1040		Pt visited by Dr. Hightower.
1100	B/P xxx/92	Pt terminated. Asked for something

#73 [57] April 13 Wednesday

		to go with orange juice and dextrose. Given a piece of toast.
1130		Pt up and to head. Says he is feeling fine.
1155		Pt’s lunch served.
1210		Relieved for chow. E. W. Prise
1230	TPR 98.6-68-20
1305		Dr. Hogan & Pt’s brother came up to see him for a few minutes.
1420		Relieved by E. W. Prise. W. M. Water
1420		Returned to duty. Pt sitting up in bed talking. E. W. Prise
1435	Liver extract 1 cc Thiamin HCl 1 cc	Pt given injection. Seems very friendly & very consoling [sic if meant considerate] toward corpsman.
1500		Pt visited by Dr. Raines.
1635	98-56-18	Dr. Raines left. Pt in very good mood.
1645		Watch relieved. E. W. Prise, HA

#74 missing (1645⁺ to 2300 April 13)

#75 (overwritten by 74) [58] April 13 – April 14 Thursday

2300		Pt awake.
2400		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
2400		Assumed watch. (JMK) Pt asleep.
0100		Pt asleep.
0200		Pt asleep.
0250		Pt awake.
0300		Pt resting fine. Pt just about asleep.
0330		Pt now asleep.
0400		Pt asleep.
0500		Pt asleep.
0530		Pt awake.
0600		Pt awake. Pt resting quietly in bed.
0700		Pt resting.
0715		Pt to head.
0730	Wt. 148
0740		Pt given black coffee.
0750		Watch relieved. J. M. Kelley, HN
0750		Relieved the watch. Pt asked if he could shave. Given “razor”. [Prise]

#76 missing (0750⁺ to 1110 April 14)

#77 overwriting 76 [59] April 14 Thursday

1110		Pt sleeping. Dr. Raines left.
1200	T.P.R. 97.8-60-18	Pt still sleeping.
1215		Relieved for chow. E. W. Prise
1300		Returned from chow. Pt sitting up in bed talking.
1400		Pt up walking around room. Makes quite a few trips to the head.
1440	Thiamin HCl 1 cc Liver extract 1 cc	Pt back in bed. Has taken a shower. Resting nicely.
1500		Pt visited by son.
1515		Pt’s son left. Pt resting.
1530		Pt visited by Dr. Raines.
1635		Relieved by evening watch. E. W. Prise
1635		Relieved the watch. (WB) Dr. Raines still with Pt.
1705		Dr. Raines left. New orders given. Corpsman could not find Phospho soda. Have to wait until nurse comes.
1715	Dinner served	Tray was brought in at this time.

#78 overwriting 77 [60] April 14 – April 15 Friday

1745	Phospho soda Z i	Given.
1800		Pt resting quietly.
1845	Alcohol back rub B/P 12x/xx TPR 98.4-54-18	Given as ordered @ Pt’s request. Taken.
1905	Na amytal gr vi	Given as ordered. Pt eating crackers & cream cheese.
2000		Pt resting quietly.
2100		Pt resting quietly.
2130		Up to head. More flowers brought into room.
2200		Pt awake.
2230		Pt asleep. Dr. Deen made rounds.
2300		Pt asleep.
2345		Pt awake.
2400	Na amytal gr iii	Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
		Assumed watch. JMK
0100		Pt sleeping.
0200		Pt sleeping.
0300		Pt sleeping.
0400		Pt sleeping.
0500		Pt sleeping.

#79 overwriting 78 [61] April 15 Friday

0550		Pt awake.
0600		Pt awake. Pt to head.
0700		Pt awake. Pt asked for coffee, as soon as he could have it.
0730		Pt given A.M. care.
0745		Pt given coffee.
0800	Wt. 150	Pt’s bed made upon his request.
0815	7th day insulin sub-shock
0820	Insulin 45 units T.P.R. 98.6-48-16 B/P 1xx/90	Pt resting. Sitting in bed talking to corpsmen.
0830	P 48 R 16	Pt up and to head.
0845	P 52 R 18	Pt sitting up reading.
0900	B/P 116/92 P 54 R 18	Pt lying quietly in bed. Pt visited by Dr. Smith.
0945	P 54 R 18	Dr. Smith left. Pt resting in bed.
1000	B/P 108/72 P 52 R 18	Pt lying quietly in bed. Talking to Dr. Deen.
1015	P 54 R 18	Pt reading book.

#80 overwriting 79 [62] April 15 Friday

1030	B/P 114/72 P 50 R 18	Pt resting quietly.
1035		Pt visited by Dr. Raines.
1115	45 cc Dextrose	Pt terminated.
1205		Pt given lunch. Dr. Raines left. Relieved for chow. E. W. Prise
1300		Returned from chow. Pt sitting in chair reading.
1340	Thiamin HCl 1 cc Liver extract 1 cc	Pt reading.
1350		Pt visited by Dr. Raines.
1505		Visited by a friend.
1600	T.P.R. 98.2-58-20	Dr. Raines & this friend left. Pt up walking around room.
1645		Watch relieved. [Prise ends]
1645		Relieved the watch. (WB)
1700	Phospho soda Z ii	Given as ordered.
1710	Dinner	Dinner served. Pt ate good tonight.
1800		Pt up walking around room for last 15 minutes. In bed now.
1845	B/P 124/74 TPR 98.8-62-18	Taken as ordered. Pt resting quietly.

#81 overwriting 80 [63] April 15 – April 16 Saturday

1900		Dr. Deen to see Pt. Hold off medication until 2000. Verbal order, Dr. Deen.
2000		Pt stated he did not want his pills yet.
2055	Na amytal gr iii	Pt only wanted one of his pills, at this time.
2100		Pt resting.
2115	Na amytal gr iii	Pt wanted other pill & it was given.
2145		Pt asleep.
2200		Pt asleep.
2300		Pt asleep.
2400		Pt asleep. Watch relieved. W. R. Breon
2400		Assumed watch. (JMK) Pt asleep.
0100		Pt asleep.
0200		Pt asleep.
0300		Pt asleep.
0330		Pt awake. Pt said he could go back to sleep.
0400		Pt is still awake.

#82 overwriting 81 [64] April 16 Saturday

0415		Pt asleep.
0500		Pt sleeping.
0600		Pt sleeping.
0610		Pt to head.
0700		Pt lying in bed resting.
0730	Wt. 150	Pt to head.
0740		Relieved watch. J. M. Kelley, HN
0745		Pt shaving. [Prise]
	8th day of insulin sub-shock
0800	Insulin 50 units B/P 112/78 T.P.R. 97.6-48-18	Pt given insulin injection. Went to head and back several times.
0815	P 50 R 18	Pt lying quietly in bed. Asked corpsman to explain how to take a blood pressure.
0830	B/P 1xx/84 P 50 R 18	Pt lying quietly in bed.
0845	P 54 R 18	Pt lying in bed smoking.
0900	B/P 11x/x2 P 52 R 18	Pt seems to be a little uneasy in making a motion, like he was “rolling pills”. [*]
0925	P 54 R 18	Pt talking with corpsman.
0930	B/P 130/102 P 54 R 18	Pt up and into head. Complains of being thirsty. Given cold water.

[* Pill-rolling is a tremor in which the hand moves rhythmically as if manipulating small objects. It is symptomatic of generalized brain dysfunction.]

#83 overwriting 82 [66] April 16 Saturday

0945	P 56 R 18	Pt up and to head.
1000		Pt visited by Adm. Swanson.
1015	P 54 R 18	Dr. Swanson left. Pt lying quietly in bed.
1030	B/P 126/76	Pt visited by Dr. Raines.
1100	B/P 126/72 Dextrose 50 cc	Pt terminated at this time. Has quite a bit of shaking and unsteadiness of hands.
1130		Visited by wife.
1200	T.P.R. 97.2-58-18	Pt’s wife & Dr. Raines left. Pt lying comfortably in bed. Asked if he would have time before lunch to take a shower.
1210		Pt given lunch.
1215		Relieved for chow.
1300		Returned from chow. Pt sitting up in bed very quiet.
1310		Visited by Dr. Raines.
1530		Dr. Raines left. Pt quiet.
1600		Pt writing letters. Requests that corpsman take care of mailing them.
1645		Relieved by Breon, HN E. W. Prise

#84 overwriting 83 [67] April 16 – April 17 Sunday

1645		Assumed watch. (WB) Pt resting quietly.
1700		Pt resting.
1715	Dinner	Dinner served. Pt ate good this p.m.
1800		Pt resting quietly.
1845	B/P 126/74 TPR 98.4-50-18	Taken as ordered.
1900	Thiamin chl. 1 cc Liver ext. 1 cc Milk of Mag. Z i	Given now because it wasn’t given earlier. Given as ordered. Bed linen changed at Pt’s request.
2000		Pt apparently asleep.
2100		Pt awake.
2120	Na amytal gr iii	Pt took only one capsule. Stated he would take the other one if needed.
2140	Na amytal gr iii	As requested.
2200		Pt awake.
2300		Pt apparently asleep.
2400		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
2400		Assumed watch. (JMK) Pt asleep.

#85 overwriting 84 [68] April 17 Sunday

0100		Pt sleeping
0200		Pt awake. Pt said he could go back to sleep.
0230		Pt sleeping.
0300		Pt sleeping.
0330		Pt awake. Pt asked for some of the flowers to be taken out. Said they were too strong for him.
0400		Pt now asleep.
0500		Pt asleep.
0600		Pt awake.
0630		Pt asked for windows to be opened further.
0700		Pt in bed resting.
0725		Pt shaved and (etc).
0800		Watch relieved. J. M. Kelley, HN
0800		Relieved the watch. [Prise]
0830	T.P.R. 98-58-18	Pt served breakfast.
0900		Breakfast finished. Room cleaned. Pt sitting in bed reading morning papers.
0930		Pt resting. No complaints.
1000		Pt given tap water.

#86 overwriting 85 [69] April 17 Sunday

		Enema with good results the second time.
1100		Pt has been back and forth to head several times in the past hour. Seems very uneasy.
1130	Metamucil 1 z	Seen by Dr. Hightower.
1150		Relieved for chow. Dr. Raines in to see patient.
1250		Returned from chow. Dr. Raines still with Pt.
1415		Dr. Raines left. Pt in fair mood.
1430		Pt sleeping.
1515		Pt awake. Says he is hearing “little sounds” or noises. When told it was the radiator he jumped up and turned it off.
1550	Thiamin HCl 1 cc Liver extract 1 cc } IM	Pt lying in bed talking to corpsmen.
1635		Relieved by evening watch. E. W. Prise, HA

#87 overwriting 86 [70] April 17 – April 18 Monday

1635		Assumed watch. WB
1650		Dr. Hightower here. Doctor examined Pt’s rectum. New orders given. Chow served. Pt did not eat too well tonight.
1730		Bed linen changed at Pt’s request. Pt took a bath.
1750	Metamucil Z i	Given as ordered.
1800		Pt resting quietly.
1900		Pt resting.
1930	B/P 12x/74 TPR 98.4-50-18 Alcohol back rub	Taken as ordered. Given as ordered.
1950	Na amytal gr iii	Pt ate some crackers & a little ice cream.
2015		Pt apparently asleep.
2100		Pt asleep.
2200		Pt awake.
2300		Pt asleep.
2400		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
2400		Assumed watch. (JMK) Pt asleep.
0100		Pt asleep.
0200		Pt asleep.

#88 overwriting 87 [71] April 18 Monday

0240		Pt awake. Pt to head.
0300		Pt still awake.
0345	Na amytal gr iii	As ordered.
0400		Pt is just about asleep.
0500		Pt sleeping.
0600		Pt sleeping.
0645		Pt awake.
0700		Pt to head.
0745		Pt shaving and (etc).
0750		Assumed the watch. WB
0750		Watch relieved. J. M. Kelley, HN
	9th Day of Insulin Therapy
0800	Insulin 50 U B/P 120/72 TPR. 98-54-18	Given I.M. Pt resting in bed.
0810	Metamucil Z i Wt. 149	Given. Pt drank cup of coffee. Taken.
0830	B/P 124/76 P 54 R 18	Pt in bed cleaning fingernails.
0850		Dr. Smith to see Pt.
0940		Dr. Smith left.
0945	B/P 130/76 P 52 R 18	Pt up to head. Stated he would read his mail later.
1000		Pt resting in bed.
1015	B/P xxx/xx P 56 R 18	Pt slightly shaky.

#89 overwriting 88 [72] April 18 Monday

1045	B/P 13x/76 P 60 R 18	Dr. Raines in with Pt.
1100	B/P 138/74	Pt terminated with 50 cc dextrose in 240 cc orange juice. Dr. Raines with Pt at this time.
1115		Dr. Raines left.
1200	TPR 98.4-60-20	Pt resting comfortable.
1215	Lunch	Lunch served. Pt ate very well. Watch relieved for chow.
1300		Pt up and about room helping corpsman straighten up room.
1400		Pt resting in bed.
1445		Dr. Raines to see Pt.
1530		Maintenance here to clean rug.
1630		Dr. Raines left.
1635	Thiamin chl. 1 cc Liver ex. 1 cc	Given as ordered. Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
1635	98.6-58-18	Assumed watch. (JMK)
1700		Pt setting in bed reading paper. Pt asked when chow would be served.
1715		Dinner served. Pt ate very good tonight.

#90 overwriting 89 [73] April 18 – April 19 Tuesday

1800		Pt resting quietly.
1815		Pt’s wife to see him.
1900		Pt setting in bed talking to his wife.
1915		Pt’s wife left.
1950	Na amytal gr iii	Given as ordered.
2000	134/74 TPR 98.4-56-20	Pt resting at present.
2005		Pt to head.
2025		Pt to head.
2100		Pt seems to be asleep.
2200	Na amytal gr iii	Pt awake.
2300		Pt asleep.
2400		Watch relieved. J. M. Kelley, HN
0100		Pt sleeping. [Prise]
0200		Pt sleeping
0215		Pt awake. Requests that window be closed.
0230		Pt sleeping.
0300		Pt sleeping.
0400		Pt sleeping.
0500		Pt sleeping.
0530		Pt awake. Had a very good night, except is quite restless

#91 overwriting 90 [74] April 19 Tuesday

		in sleep. Rolled & tossed quite a bit.
0535		Pt fell asleep again.
0630		Pt still sleeping.
0725		Pt awake. Went to head.
0740	Wt. 149	Pt up & shaving.
0750		Pt finished shaving.
0755		Relieved by day watch. E. W. Prise
0755		Assumed watch. WB
	10th day of I.T.
0800	Insulin 55 U B/P 120/78 TPR 97.2-52-18	Given I.M. Pt had coffee & is now in head.
0815	Metamucil Z i	Given as ordered.
0830	B/P 118/78 P 54 R 18	Pt in bed resting.
0900	B/P 126/82 P 52 R 18	Pt in bed reading paper.
0915		Dr. Smith to see Pt.
0955		Dr. Smith left.
1000	B/P 140/80 P 56 R 20	Pt reading mail. Seems slightly shaky.
1030	B/P 138/78 P 56 R 18	Pt up to head. In bed now, resting quietly.
1100	B/P 138/80	Terminated with 55 cc dextrose in orange juice.

#92 overwriting 91 [75] April 19 Tuesday

		Pt was perspiring profusely at termination time.
1145		Pt resting comfortably. Relieved for chow.
1210	Lunch.	Served. Pt ate very good. Dr. Raines to see Pt.
1240		Dr. Raines left.
1245	TPR 98.4-62-20	Pt had B.M. Pt states he did not have any good results.
1300		Pt sitting on arm of chair looking out window, smoking pipe.
1400	Thiamin chl. 1 cc Liver ex. 1 cc	Given I.M. as ordered. Pt still looking out window.
1500		Pt trying to have B.M. but can’t get any results. [Breon]
1600	Liver extract 1 cc	Dr. Raines with Pt.
1645	Thiamin HCl 1 cc	Dr. Raines left.
1645	TPR 98.6-6x-18	Assumed watch. (JMK)
1700	Dinner	Served. Pt ate very well tonight.
1715		Dr. Raines to see Pt.
1720		Dr. Raines left.

#93 overwriting 92 [76] April 19 – April 20 Wednesday

1745		Pt to head.
1800		Pt resting in bed.
1815		Pt to head.
1820	Metamucil Z i	Given as ordered.
1830		Pt to head.
1845		Dr. Hightower made rounds. Pt to head again.
1900		Pt resting in bed.
1905		Pt’s wife to see him.
1925		Pt’s wife left.
1930		Pt to head.
1950	Na amytal gr iii	Given as ordered.
2000	128/72 TPR 98.4-58-20	Pt resting at present.
2100		Pt sleeping.
2200		Pt sleeping.
2300		Pt sleeping.
2400		Watch relieved. J. M. Kelley, HN
2400		Relieved the watch. Pt sleeping. E. W. Prise
0100		Pt sleeping.
0150		Pt awake. Went into head.
0200		Pt sleeping.
0300		Pt sleeping.
0345		Pt awake.
xxxx		Pt sleeping.
04xx		Pt awake.
0530		Pt lying in bed but not sleeping.

#94 overwriting 93 [77] April 20 Wednesday

0610		Pt up to head.
0700		Pt lying in bed but not sleeping.
0735	Wt. 149	Pt up in head, shaving, etc.
0750		Relieved by day watch. E. W. Prise
0750	11th day of insulin	Assumed watch. (WB)
0800	Insulin 60 U B/P 120/78 TPR 98.4-56-18 Metamucil Z i Phospho soda Z i	Given as ordered. Pt resting in bed drinking coffee.
0830	B/P 130/80 P 56 R 18	Pt resting.
0850		Dr. Smith to see Pt.
0920		Dr. Smith left.
0930	B/P 130/78 P 54 R 18	Pt’s feet a little cold.
1000	B/P 162/80 P 54 R 18	Pt perspiring quite a bit. Resting comfortable.
1015	B/P 150/78	Pt still perspiring.
1030	B/P 148/88 P 56 R 18	Pt resting in bed. Perspiring.
1100	B/P 166/82 P 60	Terminated with 60 cc dextrose in orange juice. Perspiring at termination profusely. Skin hot & clammy.
1200	TPR 98-60-18	Relieved for chow.
1300		Returned from chow.

#95 overwriting 94 [78] April 20 Wednesday

1400		Pt up and about. To head several times in last hour.
1500		Pt up. Showered. Had small B.M. Dr. Raines here.
1630		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
1630	Liver extract 1 cc Thiamin HCl 1 cc	Assumed watch. (JMK) Dr. Raines still with Pt.
1645		Dr. Raines left.
1655		Dr. Hogan to see Pt.
1700		Dr. Hogan left.
1715		Dr. Smith to see Pt.
1725	Dinner	Served. Pt ate good tonight.
1735		Dr. Smith left.
1750		Pt to head.
1800		Pt resting in bed.
1810		Pt to head. Had good B.M.
1835		Pt to head for B.M.
1900		Pt resting in bed.
1915		Dr. Deen made rounds.
2000	128/74 98.4-60-18	Pt resting in bed.
2015		Pt to head.
2045		Pt to head.

#96 overwriting 95 [79] April 20 – April 21 Thursday

2100		Pt resting in bed.
2130	Na amytal gr iii	Given as ordered.
2200		Pt trying to go to sleep.
2300		Pt sleeping.
2400		Pt sleeping. Watch relieved. J. M. Kelley, HN
2400		Relieved the watch. Pt sleeping.
2445	Na amytal grs iii	Pt awake. Complains of strange odor in room. (E. W. Prise)
0100		Pt sleeping.
0200		Pt sleeping.
0300		Pt sleeping.
0400		Pt sleeping.
0500		Pt sleeping.
0600		Pt sleeping.
0610		Pt woke up. States “I had a very good night.”
0620		Up to head.
0630		Pt resting.
0700		Pt shaving, showering, & etc.
0725	Wt. 149	Pt back in bed. Given morning papers.
0750		Relieved by day watch. (E. W. Prise)

#97 overwriting 96 [65] April 21 Thursday

0750	12th day of I.T.	Assumed watch. (WB)
0800	Insulin 60 U B/P 98/72 TPR 98.6-60-20	Given I.M. Pt had coffee & is now reading a paper in bed.
0830	B/P 98/70 P 54 R 18	Pt has been up walking around. No objective symptoms as yet.
0845		Dr. Smith to see Pt.
0930	B/P 128/70 P 54 R 18	Dr. Smith left. Pt resting in bed.
0940		Adm. Swanson to see Pt.
0955		Adm. Swanson left.
1000	B/P 136/74 P 52 R 18	Pt reading mail. Slight perspiration. Skin cool & clammy.
1030	B/P 124/70 P 54 R 20	Pt resting. Perspiring.
1100	B/P 132/60	Insulin terminated with 60 cc Dextrose in orange juice.
1200		Pt sleeping.
1220	Metamucil Z i	Relieved for chow.
1225	Lunch	Lunch served. Pt ate good.
1300		Returned from chow. Pt resting quietly in bed.

#98 overwriting 97 [80] April 21 Thursday

1400		Pt up and about.
1500		Pt resting.
1515		Dr. Raines to see Pt. Room cleaned. [Breon]
1600		Dr. Raines with Pt.
1635		Assumed watch. (JMK)
1700		Dr. Raines left.
1725		Pt’s wife & son to see him.
1730	Dinner	Served. Pt ate good tonight.
1745		Pt’s wife left.
1800		Pt looking out of window.
1815		Pt now resting in bed.
1830		Pt to head.
1855	Metamucil Z i	Dr. Hightower made rounds.
1900		Pt smoking pipe looking out of window.
1930	Na amytal gr iii	Given as ordered.
1935	Liver extract 1 cc Thiamin HCl 1 cc	Given as ordered.
2000	130/72 98.6-60-20	Pt resting.
2100		Pt asleep.
2200		Pt sleeping.
2300		Pt sleeping.

#99 overwriting 98 [81] April 21 – April 22 Friday

2400		Watch relieved. J. M. Kelley, HN
2400		Pt sleeping. [Prise]
0100	Na amytal grs iii	Pt woke up. Asked for “sleeping pill”.
0200		Pt sleeping.
0300		Pt sleeping.
0400		Pt sleeping.
0500		Pt sleeping.
0600		Pt sleeping.
06x0		Pt awake lying in bed.
0650		Pt up to head.
0700	Metamucil Z i	Pt lying quietly in bed.
0730	Wt. 149	Pt in head, showing and etc.
0800		Relieved by day watch. E. W. Prise
	13th day of insulin
0800	B/P 11x/72 TPR 98.2-52-18 Insulin 60 U	Assumed watch. (WB) Given as ordered.
0830	B/P 126/70 P 52 R 18	Pt seems restless this a.m. Up and about looking out window.
0835		Adm. Swanson here to see patient.
0850		Adm. Swanson left. Pt in bed now, reading morning papers. No complaints.

#100 overwriting 99 [82] April 22 Friday

0900	B/P 128/74 P 56 R 18	Pt in bed reading paper. Seems to be having no effect.
0915		Dr. Smith to see Pt.
1000	B/P 130/66 P 52 R 18	Dr. Smith left. Pt perspiring and complains of feet being cold. Pt tried to read mail but quit. Seems to be in a fog.
1030	B/P 146/68 P 56 R 20	Pt perspiring. Skin cold & clammy. Resting quietly.
1100	B/P 128/66 "	Terminated with 60 cc dextrose in orange juice. Dr. Hightower here for termination. Pt perspiring profusely. Slight shaking.
xxxx		Pt sleeping.
xxxx	TPR 98.4-56-18	Pt awake.
xxx0		Pt’s son to visit Pt.
xxx5		Son left.
xxx0		Dr. Raines to see Pt.
1420		Dr. Raines left.
xxxx		Pt up & about.
xxxx	Thiamin chl. Liver ex. 1 cc ea.	Given as ordered.

[83] duplicates [79], both are #96 (overwriting 95)

[84] duplicates [81], both are #99 (overwriting 98)

[85] duplicates [82], both are #100 (overwriting 99)

[86] duplicates [79], both are #96 (overwriting 95)

#101 overwriting 100 [88] April 22 Friday

1600		Gen. Patterson to see Pt.
1620		Gen. Patterson left. Dr. Smith in with Pt. [Breon]
1630		Assumed watch. (JMK)
1700		Pt’s wife to see him.
1715		Pt’s wife left.
1730	Dinner	Served. Pt ate good tonight.
1745		Pt to head.
1750	Metamucil Z i	Given as ordered.
1800		Pt resting in bed.
1830		Pt looking out of window.
1845		Pt to head. Had good B.M.
1900		Pt resting in bed.
2000	126/72 98.4-60-18	Pt in bed resting.
2010	Na amytal gr iii	Given as ordered.
2100		Pt resting quietly.
2110		Dr. Smith to see Pt.
2130		Dr. Smith left.
2135		Pt had sandwich and glass of milk.
2200		Pt asleep.
2300		Pt asleep.

#101 [87] April 23 Saturday

2400		Watch relieved. J. M. Kelley, HN
2400		Relieved the watch. Pt awake. [Prise]
0100		Pt sleeping.
0200		Pt sleeping.
0300		Pt awake. Up and to head.
0400		Pt asleep.
0415		Pt awake.
0430		Pt out of bed.
0500		Pt awake.
0545	Wt. 148 1/2	Pt up walking around room.
0630		Pt resting.
0730		Pt in head shaving, showering and etc.
0755		Relieved by day watch. E. W. Prise
0755	14th day of insulin	Assumed watch. (WB)
0800	Insulin 60 U Given I.M. B/P 122/80 TPR 99.4-60-20	Pt just drank some hot coffee. Temp. was taken – 100°. Taken again after a few minutes.
0815	Metamucil Z i	Given as ordered.
0830	B/P 126/80 P 56 R 18	Pt in bed resting.

#102 [89] April 23 Saturday

0900	B/P 128/78 P 60 R18	Pt seems restless. Sitting up in chair.
0915		Dr. Smith to see Pt.
0945		Dr. Smith left.
1000	B/P 132/74 P 60 R18	Pt perspiring profusely. Skin cold & clammy.
1030	B/P 138/82 P 72 R [ ]	Dr. Hightower here.
1045		Terminated at this time with 60 cc dextrose in orange juice.
1100		Pt taking a shower. Room squared away.
1125		The President of the United States [Harry Truman] here to see Pt.
1200		Relieved for chow.
1300		Pt resting in bed.
1400		Pt up in chair reading mail.
1500		Up walking around room.
1545		Dr. Raines to see Pt.
1600		Pt’s wife to see Pt.
1630		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
1630		Assumed watch. (JMK) Pt’s wife in with Pt.

#103 [90] April 23 – April 24 Sunday

1645	Liver extract 1 cc Thiamin HCl 1 cc	Given as ordered.
1700		Pt’s wife left.
1715		Dr. Raines with Pt.
1725		Dr. Raines left.
1730	Dinner	Served. Pt ate very good tonight.
1800	Metamucil Z i	Pt had small B.M.
1900		Pt resting in bed.
2000	128/72 98.6-50-18	Pt resting quietly.
2030		Pt had a little lunch. He ate very good.
2100		Pt resting quietly in bed.
2200		Pt resting quietly in bed.
2300		Pt appears to be asleep.
2400		Pt awake. Watch relieved. (JMK)
2400		Relieved the watch. Pt awake. [Prise]
0100		Pt still awake.
0200		Pt sleeping.
0300		Pt sleeping.
0400		Pt sleeping.
0445		Pt awake.
0500		Pt sleeping.

#104 [91] April 24 Sunday

0550		Pt awake.
0600		Pt up & into head.
0700		Pt resting.
0715	Wt. 149 1/2	Pt sitting in bed talking to corpsman.
0730		Pt went to head. Shaving, showering & etc.
0735		Pt talked to Dr. Deen. When doctor told him he had a poor night because he did not take his sleeping pill, Pt said “They put it in my food last night.” Nothing the doctor said would change Pt’s mind about this. Pt also stated “The reason I know it was there, is because I could taste it.” [*]
0745		Relieved by day watch. E. W. Prise
	15th day of insulin	[Breon]
0750	B/P 128/84 T 98 P 52 R 18 Metamucil Z i	Pt resting in bed. Given as ordered.
0800	Insulin 60 U	Given I.M. Pt had coffee.

[* Sodium amytal (amobarbital) has a slightly bitter taste.]

#105 [92] April 24 Sunday

0830	B/P 126/78 P 56 R 18	Pt up and about last half hour. In bed now.
0900	B/P 126/72 P 54 R 18	Pt was up in chair reading paper. Stated he could feel a reaction, so back to bed.
0930	B/P 128/80 P 54 R 18	Pt in bed resting.
1000	B/P 118/76 P 56 R 18	Pt in bed resting.
1030	B/P 98/66 P 54 R 18	Pt resting quietly. Perspiring profusely.
1040		Terminated with 60 cc dextrose in orange juice per order of Dr. Deen. Doctor still unable to convince Pt there were no sleeping pills in food. Pt states he was fighting pills, that’s why he didn’t have a good night.
1115		Adm. Swanson & Adm. Pugh to see Pt.
1200	TPR 97-60-18	Pt resting quietly.
1220		Relieved for chow.
1230	Dinner served	Pt ate well.

#106 [93] April 24 – April 25 Monday

1300		Pt resting.
1325		Dr. Raines to see Pt.
1620		Dr. Raines left.
1625	Thiamin HCl 1 cc Liver ex. 1 cc }	Given as ordered.
1635		Wife to see Pt.
1640		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
1640		Assumed watch. JMK
1700		Pt’s wife left.
1745	Dinner	Served. Pt ate very good.
1800		Pt resting quietly in bed.
1900		Dr. Smith to see Pt.
1940		Dr. Smith left.
2000	134/84 98.6-56-20	Pt resting.
2100		Pt resting quietly.
2145	Na amytal gr iii	Given as ordered.
2200		Pt resting.
2300		Pt asleep.
2400		Pt asleep. [Kelley]
2400		Assumed the watch. (E. W. Prise)
2430		Pt awake.
2440		Pt sleeping.
0100		Pt sleeping.
0110		Pt woke up and asked for another blanket. Given one.
0115		Pt Sleeping.

#107 [94] April 25 Monday

0200		Pt sleeping.
0300		Pt sleeping.
0400		Pt sleeping.
0430		Pt awake. Asked if window could be closed.
0445		Pt sleeping.
0500		Pt sleeping.
0600		Pt sleeping.
0645		Pt awake. Up and to head.
0700	Wt. 149	Pt up walking around room complaining of it being cold.
0730		Pt up and into head to shave, but changed mind & went back to bed.
0755		Relieved by day watch. (E. W. Prise)
0755		Assumed watch. (WB)
	16th day of insulin
0800	B/P 126/82 P 52 R 18	Pt resting in bed.
0805	Insulin 55 U	Given I. M.
0815	Metamucil Z i	Given as ordered.
0830	B/P 12x/84 P 54 R 18	Pt in bed smoking pipe.
0840		Pt up to head for a quick shave.
0900	B/P 132/80 P 60 R 18	Pt looking at letters & such.
0930	B/P 146/80 P 56 R 18	Pt up reading mail & the such.

#108 [95] April 25 Monday

0940		Dr. Smith to see Pt.
1035		Dr. Smith left.
1040	B/P 156/66 P 60 R 20	Pt perspiring and resting in bed.
1100	B/P 142/76 P 52 R 18	Pt perspiring.
1105		Terminated with 55 cc dextrose in orange juice. Dr. Hightower standing by.
1200		Pt sleeping.
1210	Lunch	Served. Pt ate very good.
1230	TPR 98-64-18	Relieved for chow.
1310		Returned from chow.
1330		Dr. Raines to see Pt.
1400		Dr. Raines left. Pt up walking around room smoking pipe, reading his mail. Room cleaned.
1435		Sec. of Defense Johnson to see Pt.
1500		Pt sitting in chair reading.
1530		Dr. Raines with Pt.
1640		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
1640		Assumed watch. (JMK)

#109 [96] April 25 – April 26 Tuesday

1700		Dr. Raines left.
1710	Thiamin HCl 1 cc Liver ex. 1 cc }	Given as ordered.
1720	Dinner	Served. Pt ate very good tonight.
1725		Pt’s wife to see him.
1750		Pt’s wife left.
1800		Pt resting quietly.
1900	Metamucil Z i	Pt resting.
2000	134/74 98.4-62-18	Dr. Smith to see Pt.
2005		Dr. Smith left.
2100		Pt resting quietly.
2200		Pt resting quietly.
2300		Pt resting quietly.
2400		Watch relieved. J. M. Kelley, HN
2400		Relieved the watch. Pt resting. [Prise]
0100		Pt sleeping.
0200		Pt awake.
0300		Pt sleeping.
0400		Pt sleeping.
0500		Pt sleeping.
0515		Pt awake.
0600		Pt awake.

#110 [97] April 26 Tuesday

0700		Pt awake.
0755		Relieved by day watch. (E. W. Prise)
0755		Assumed watch. (WB)
	17th day of insulin
0755	B/P 142/90 T 98 P 54 R 18 Wt. 148	B/P taken several times to make sure.
0800	Insulin 55 U	Given I.M.
0810	Metamucil Z i	Given as ordered.
0830	B/P 146/90 P 54 R 18	Pt seems to be comfortable. Resting in bed.
0900	B/P 140/90 P 60 R 18	Pt resting in bed. No complaints.
0910		Dr. Smith to see Pt.
1010	B/P 146/86 P 56 R 18	Dr. Smith left.
1030	B/P 150/84 P 60 R 20	Pt in bed reading paper. Perspiring, skin cold and clammy, slight shaking of hands.
1050	B/P 152/78 P 60 R 18	Pt resting.
1100		Terminated with 55 cc dextrose in orange juice. During term. Pt ate his toast as usual. After he finished that he picked up a card from some flowers he

#111 [98] April 26 Tuesday

		had just received and took a bite out of it. Then he asked for another piece of toast. Pt drank 750 cc of orange juice in termination. Dr. Hightower standing by.
1130		Pt up to head, shaving & showering.
1200	TPR 98.4-76-20	Pt resting in bed. Remarked about card he had taken a bite out of.
1220		Relieved for chow.
1230	Lunch	Served. Pt ate good.
1305		Returned from chow.
1410		Pt up in chair reading book.
1500	Thiamin HCl 1 cc Liver ex. 1 cc }	Given as ordered. Pt up reading mail.
1520		Dr. Raines with Pt.
1645		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
1645		Assumed watch. (JMK)
1700		Dr. Raines with Pt.
1720	Dinner	Served. Pt ate good.
1800		Pt resting.
1915		Dr. Deen to see Pt.

#112 [99] April 26 – April 27 Wednesday

1920		Dr. Deen left.
1930	Metamucil Z i	Given as ordered.
2000	148/98 99-66-22	Pt resting quietly.
2100		Pt resting quietly.
2200	Na amytal gr iii	Given as ordered.
2300		Pt appears to be asleep.
2400		Watch relieved. J. M. Kelley, HN
[ ]		Relieved the watch. Pt very quiet. [Prise]
2435		Pt awake.
2445		Pt seems to have fallen to sleep again, is snoring.
0105		Snoring stopped. Pt very quiet.
0200		Pt very quiet, appears to be sleeping.
0300		Pt has been very quiet. Appears to be sleeping.
0305		Pt awake. Talking to corpsman. Up and into head.
0330		Pt appears to be asleep.
0340	Alcohol to back for itching	Pt awake. Complains of back itching & window making noise.
0350		Pt quiet.
0430		Pt very quiet, apparently sleeping.

#113 [100] April 27 Wednesday

0500		Pt sleeping.
0530		Pt very restless, but from sound of breathing is apparently asleep.
0600		Pt sleeping.
0626		Pt awake, very cheerful.
0645		Pt up walking around room.
0715	Wt. 149	Pt resting in bed.
0730		Pt in head shaving & etc.
0747		Relieved by day watch. (E. W. Prise)
0747		Assumed watch. (WB)
	18th day of insulin
0750	B/P 122/82 TPR 98.2-60-18	Pt resting in bed.
0758	Insulin 60 U	Given I.M.
0800		Pt given coffee. Up walking around room.
0830	B/P 134/86 P 60 R 18 Metamucil Z i	Pt up in chair smoking. Given as ordered.
0900	B/P 140/86 P 60 R 20	Pt reading paper. Slight shaking of hands.
0905		Dr. Smith to see Pt.
1000	B/P 132/78 P 60 R 18	Dr. Smith left.
1030	B/P 142/76 P 56 R [ ]	Pt seems drowsy. Perspiring.

#114 [101] April 27 Wednesday

1050		Terminated with 60 cc dextrose in orange juice. Twitching of arms and legs noticed, dropping off in sleep minutes at a time. Dr. Hightower standing by.
1130		Pt asleep.
1150		Pt awake. To head. Taking shower.
1200	TPR 98-64-20	Relieved for chow.
1215	Lunch	Served. Pt ate good.
1240		Returned from chow.
1300		Pt resting in bed.
1400		Pt reading today’s paper.
1500		Reading mail.
1515		Dr. Raines to see Pt. [Breon]
1635		Assumed watch. (JMK)
1650	Thiamin Liver ex. }	Pt’s wife to see Pt.
1700		Pt with wife.
1730	Dinner	Served. Pt ate very good tonight.
1900	Metamucil Z i	Pt resting quietly.
1950		Dr. Hightower made rounds.

#115 [102] April 27 – April 28 Thursday

2000	138/88 98.6-60-18	Pt resting quietly.
2100		Pt resting.
2200	Na amytal gr iii	Pt resting.
2300		Pt awake.
2400		Watch relieved. J. M. Kelley, HN
2400		Relieved the watch. Pt awake. When corpsman tried to turn bed lamp off, Pt said “I think I’ll leave that on. I can sleep anyway.” [Prise]
0100		Pt very quiet. Appears to be sleeping.
0200		Pt sleeping. Bed lamp still on.
0300		Pt awake.
0340		Pt up rummaging through waste can, then went to head.
0400		Pt resting quietly.
0500		Pt very quiet. Appears to be asleep.
0600		Pt awake.

#116 [103] April 28 Thursday

0615		Pt very quiet.
0645		Pt awake.
7:30		Pt given shaving gear. Lying quietly in bed. (Note) Pt left bed lamp on all night. Whenever corpsman tried to turn it off, Pt said “Leave it on, I can sleep with it on.”
0745		Relieved by day watch. (E. W. Prise)
0745		Assumed watch. (WB)
	19th day of insulin
0750	B/P 128/80 TPR 97.8-54-18	Pt resting in bed.
0800	Insulin 55 U Wt. 146 1/2	Given I.M. Pt seems nervous more than usual this a.m.
0830	B/P 126/80 P 54 R 18	Pt resting in bed.
0900	B/P 122/84 P 54 R 18	Dr. Smith to see Pt.
0945		Dr. Smith left.
1000	B/P 132/74 P 54 R 18	Pt resting quietly in bed. Seems depressed today.
1030	B/P 146/88 P 60 R 18	Pt seems to be drowsy. Started to read papers several times but put them down. Resting. Does not seem to be perspiring much today.

#117 [104] April 28 Thursday

1055	B/P 138/76 P 60 R 20	Pt very quiet. Seems to be in a “fog”.
1100		Terminated with 55 cc dextrose in 480 cc orange juice. Color back in cheeks after one glass.
1115		Pt asleep.
1200		Pt asleep.
1215	Lunch	Served. Pt ate good.
1225		Relieved for chow.
1310		Returned from chow.
1400		Pt up taking a shower. Bed changed. Dr. Raines here for a few minutes.
1500		Pt resting in bed.
1530		Dr. Raines here to see Pt.
1600		Dr. Raines ordered a sandwich & milk shake. Pt seemed to be having a delayed insulin reaction.
1655		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
1655		Assumed watch. (JMK)
1700		Dr. Raines with Pt.

#118 [105] April 28 – April 29 Friday

1720		Pt’s wife to see him.
1725	Dinner	Served. Pt ate very good tonight.
1740		Dr. Raines left.
1820		Pt’s wife left.
1825	Thiamin HCl Liver ex. } 1 cc	Given as ordered.
1900		Dr. Deen made rounds. Pt resting quietly.
2100		Pt resting. Dr. Deen to see Pt.
2105		Dr. Deen left.
2140	Na amytal gr iii	Given as ordered.
2200		Pt resting.
2300		Pt appears to be asleep.
2400		Watch relieved. J. M. Kelley, HN
2400		Relieved the watch. Pt sleeping. [Prise]
2425		Pt awake. Up and into head.
2445		Pt seems to be sleeping.
0140		Pt awake.
0200		Pt appears to be sleeping.
0300		Pt sleeping.
0400		Pt sleeping.
0500		Pt appears to be asleep.
0515		Pt awake lying in bed.
0600		Pt awake.

#119 [106] April 29 Friday

0700		Pt awake lying quietly in bed.
0735		Pt in head shaving & etc.
0745		Relieved by day crew. (E. W. Prise)
0745		Assumed watch. (WB)
0800	Wt. 149 Metamucil Z i	Pt up walking around room.
0805	B/P 118/78 TPR 97-56-20	Pt resting & reading paper.
0810	Breakfast	Served. Pt ate all his eggs, toast, cereal and drank his coffee & a little milk.
0900		Pt resting in bed.
0910		Dr. Smith to see Pt.
1000		Dr. Smith left. Pt reading mail.
1025		Dr. Hightower here for a few minutes.
1100		Pt reading paper.
11x0		Pt’s wife here.
1205		Relieved for chow.
1245	Lunch	Served. Pt ate good.
1245	TPR 98.6-76-20	Returned from chow.
1300		Dr. Raines to see Pt.
1515		Dr. Raines left. New orders given.

#120 [107] April 29 – April 30 Saturday

		Read new orders.
1600	TPR 99.2-66-20	Pt resting in bed. Pt was smoking pipe 10 min. before temp. was taken.
1635		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
1635		Assumed watch. JMK
1700		Pt setting in chair reading book.
1715	Dinner	Served. Pt ate very good tonight.
1800		Pt resting quietly in bed.
1900		Pt in chair reading book.
2000	124/74 98.4-62-20	Pt resting quietly.
2045		Pt had a little lunch.
2100	Na amytal gr vi	Given as ordered. Pt resting.
2200		Pt resting.
2300		Pt appears to be asleep.
2400		Pt awake.
2400		Watch relieved. J. M. Kelly, HN
2440		Relieved the watch. Pt awake. Pt complains of odor in room. Says it smells like ether. [Prise]
0100		Pt very quiet but not asleep.

#121 [108] April 30 Saturday

0125		Pt appears to be asleep.
0200		Pt sleeping.
0300		Pt sleeping.
0400		Pt sleeping soundly.
0440		Pt awoke with a start, as if something had frightened him. Jumped out of bed, walked to window, looked out, asked corpsman what time it was, opened door, and went back to bed.
0500		Pt appears to be asleep.
0535		Pt awake. Insists that door to room be open.
0600		Pt awake sitting quietly in bed.
0700		Pt sitting in bed talking to corpsman.
0740		Pt in head, shaving showering, & etc. Walking around room.
0800		Relieved by day watch. (E. W. Prise)
0800		Relieved the watch (CLM)

#122 [109] April 30 Saturday

0935	Metamucil Z i	Assumed watch. (WB)
0945	Extra lunch	Served. Pt ate large portion of eggs, some bacon, and a piece of toast, and drank a glass of orange juice.
0955		Dr. Smith to see Pt.
1040		Dr. Smith left.
1100		Pt resting in bed.
1120	Wt. 150	Pt was not weighed early this morning.
1200	TPR 99-68-22	Pt resting in bed.
1205	Lunch	Pt ate well !
1210		Adm. Willcutts & Dr. Raines to see Pt.
1230		Relieved for chow.
1250		Dr. Raines with Pt.
1400	Extra feeding	Pt ate large portion of egg salad & a glass of orange juice.
1430		Dr. Raines left.
1435	Na amytal gr iii	Given as ordered.
1500		Pt resting very quietly, not asleep.

#123 [110] April 30 – May 1 Sunday

1555	TPR 98.8-70-20	Taken as ordered. Pt very quiet.
1600	Extra feeding.	Pt stated he was not hungry but did eat a piece of toast. He also stated he did not want tea, but drank 100 cc milk. Pt very drowsy. W. R. Breon, HN
1630		Assumed watch. (JMK) Pt resting in bed.
1640		Pt up to head.
1700		Pt reading paper.
1720	Dinner	Served. Pt ate fair tonight.
1800		Pt appears to be asleep.
1900		Pt resting quietly.
1920		Dr. Hightower made rounds.
1930	Metamucil Z i	Given as ordered. Pt resting quietly.
2200		Pt asleep.
2300		Pt asleep.
2410		Watch relieved. J. M. Kelley, HN
2410		Relieved the watch. Pt woke up. [Prise]

#124 [111] May 1 Sunday

		Went into head and is taking a shower.
2420		Pt out of head. Back in bed.
2435		Pt appears to be asleep.
0100		Pt sleeping.
0200		Pt sleeping.
0300		Pt sleeping.
0400		Pt sleeping.
0500		Pt woke up.
0515		Pt appears to be sleeping.
0600		Pt sleeping.
0615		Pt awake.
0700		Pt resting quietly in bed.
0730		Pt up walking around room.
0745		Relieved by day watch. (E. W. Prise)
0745		Assumed watch. (WB) Pt to head shaving & showering. Bed linen changed.
0800	Metamucil Z i	Given as ordered.
0810	Breakfast Wt. 149	Served. Pt ate very good. Resting now, smoking pipe.
0900	Thiamin chl. 1 cc Liver ex. 1 cc }	Given as ordered.
0905	B/P 11x/7x TPR 98.2-64-18	Pt resting.

#125 [112] May 1 Sunday

0930		Extra feeding was brought up from galley. Pt stated he did not want anything. He said he couldn’t eat a thing. The tray was left there and he drank 150 cc milk and took a couple bites from the eggs. Dr. Hightower made rounds.
1000		Pt resting in bed.
1100		Pt sitting in chair reading.
1125		Adm. Swanson with Pt.
1145		Dr. Raines to see Pt.
1200	Lunch	Served. Pt ate fairly well.
1310		Dr. Raines left.
1315	Na amytal gr iii	Given as ordered.
1400		Pt resting in chair.
1500		Pt asleep.
1550		Wife to visit Pt. W. R. Breon, HN
1620		Assumed watch. (JMK)
1700		Pt resting quietly.
1710	Dinner	Served. Pt ate very good tonight.
1800		Pt resting quietly.
1845	Metamucil Z i	Given as ordered.

#126 [113] May 1 – May 2 Monday

1930		Dr. Hightower made rounds.
2000	124/72 98.4-62-22	Dr. Hightower with Pt.
2100		Pt resting fine. Pt given luncheon. Pt ate fair. Stated that he wasn’t hungry but he would eat a little.
2110	Na amytal gr vi	Given as ordered.
2200		Pt appears to be asleep.
2300		Pt asleep.
2400		Watch relieved. J. M. Kelley, HN
2400		Assumed the watch. Pt asleep. (E. W. Prise)
0100		Pt sleeping.
0200		Pt appears to be sleeping.
0300		Pt sleeping.
0400		Pt sleeping.
0500		Pt asleep.
0600		Pt asleep.
0620		Pt awake. Up and into head.
0700		Pt sitting in bed. Appears to be in deep thought.
0725		Pt given shaving gear.
0740		Into head, shaving & etc. E. W. Prise
0750		Relieved watch. (WB)

#127 [114] May 2 Monday

0800	Insulin 40 U B/P 110/68 TPR 98.2-56-18	Given as ordered. Pt given black coffee.
0830	B/P 110/66 P 54 R 18	Pt seems restless this a.m. Up in chair reading paper.
0850		Adm. Swanson here to see Pt.
0900	B/P 120/78 P 56 R 18	Pt starting to perspire a little. Pt seems rather nervous. Has a glassy stare about him.
0930	B/P 126/80 P 60 R 18	Pt. still seems nervous. Quite a bit of limb movement. Skin cold and clammy. Pt keeps picking at forehead.
0950		Dr. Smith to see Pt.
1025		Dr. Smith left. Pt seems very drowsy.
1030	B/P 124/66 P 66 R 18	Pt is half asleep. Perspiration seems to have subsided, but skin is still cold. It does not feel wet.
1055	B/P 124/68 P 68 R 20	Pt terminated with 40 cc dextrose in 250 cc orange juice. Dr. Hightower standing by.
1120		Pt reading mail. Doctor left.

#128 [115] May 2 Monday

1130		Pt to head. Showering.
1155	TPR 97.8-62-20 Metamucil Z i	Pt up and about. Given with water.
1205	Lunch	Served. Pt ate very good.
1300		Pt resting quietly.
1400		Pt in head.
1445		Dr. Raines to see Pt.
1500	Extra feeding	Given at this time.
1615		Dr. Raines with Pt and wife.
1620		Dr. Raines left.
1625		Wife left.
1630	Thiamin chl. Liver ex. } 1 cc	Given I.M. as ordered.
1640		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
1640		Assumed the watch. Pt resting. (E. W. Prise)
1730	Dinner	Served. Pt ate fairly good.
1755		Pt finished dinner. Sitting in chair smoking & reading.
1820	Metamucil Z i	Pt in bed resting.
1900		Pt pacing floor & smoking. Seems to be in deep thought.
1930		Pt visited by Dr. Deen.
2000		Pt resting.
2030		Pt asked for evening feeding.

#129 [116] May 2 Monday

2040	Extra feeding	Pt ate very little of extra feeding. (Note) Pt seems very uneasy when there is any lights on in room. Has told corpsman several times that he prefers to have room pitch dark.
2100		Pt refuses to take Na amytal until 2200. Setting quietly in bed.
2200		Pt still refuses to take medication. Storm was blowing rain in window but when corpsman tried to close it, Pt said “Leave the window open.” Pt has been pacing floor for past hour as if he could not decide what to do.
2210		Pt states “If that was a synthetic storm it was a good one.” When asked

#130 [117] May 2 – May 3 Tuesday

		what he meant by a “synthetic storm” he replied, “You know, you can produce rain by sprinkling something in the stratosphere.”
22xx		Pt seen by Dr. Deen.
2245		Pt still awake.
2400		Relieved by night watch. (E. W. Prise)
2400		Assumed watch. Pt apparently asleep. [Stuthers]
2430		Pt awake, asked to have windows open. Wind blowing on metal blinds causing them to bang against screen.
1245 [sic]		Pt apparently asleep.
0115		Pt asleep.
0200		Pt asleep.
0300		Pt asleep.
0330		Pt to head.
0334		Pt back to bed.
0415		Pt asleep.
0500		Pt asleep.

#131 [118] May 3 Tuesday

0530		Pt awake. Tossing & turning in bed.
0555		Pt to head.
0600		Pt back to bed, not asleep.
0630		Pt awake.
0700		Pt awake. Pt said he was sleepy.
0730		Pt paid $1.60 to newsboy for 4 weeks papers. Pt seems to be in deep thought. Continually scratching the right side of his head with his little & ring finger.
0745		Watch relieved. [Stuthers]
0745		Assumed watch. (WB)
0755	B/P 134/80 TPR 98-56-18	Pt given coffee.
0800	Insulin 35 U	Given I.M.
0805	Metamucil Z i	Taken as ordered.
0830	B/P 128/78 P 60 R 18	Pt resting in bed.
0850		Adm. Swanson to see Pt.
0900	B/P 132/80 P 60 R 18	Adm. Swanson left.
0910		Dr. Smith to see Pt.
0950		Dr. Smith left.
1000	B/P 136/70 P 60 R 18	Pt resting quietly in bed.

#132 [119] May 3 Tuesday

		Seems to be half asleep.
1030	B/P 144/78 P 60 R 20	Pt doesn’t seem to be having much of a reaction. Pt resting quietly, almost asleep.
1045		Dr. Hightower here.
1100	B/P 134/78 P 60 R 18	Terminated with 35 cc dextrose in orange juice.
1155	TPR 98-62-20	Pt sitting in chair.
1210	Lunch.	Served. Pt ate very well.
1300		Pt sitting in chair reading.
1400		Pt still reading. [Breon]
1500	Thiamin chl. Liver ex. } 1 cc ea.	Pt visited by Dr. Raines.
1545		Pt visited by wife.
1645		Relieved the watch. (E. W. Prise) [delayed signature, handwriting indicates relieved watch at 1500] Pt’s wife still visiting.
1700	Metamucil Z i	Pt appears to be in a very good mood.
1715	Dinner	Served. Pt seemed worried about getting too much on tray.
1730		Pt finished dinner. Ate fairly good tonight.
1800		Pt sitting in chair. Seems to be in deep thought.
1845		Pt sitting in chair reading.

#133 [120] May 3 – May 4 Wednesday

1940		Pt seen by Dr. Hightower. Pt seems to be in [blank]
2000		Doctor still with Pt. Dr. Hightower removed rose thorn from Pt’s right index finger.
2040		Pt given evening feeding.
2100	Na amytal gr vi	Pt resting quietly.
2145		Pt seems to be asleep.
2230		Pt sleeping.
2300		Pt sleeping.
2400		Relieved by night watch. Pt sleeping. (E. W. Prise)
2400		Pt sleeping. Assumed watch. cfs
2430		Pt restless, tossing & turning although appears to be asleep.
0100		Pt asleep.
0200		Pt asleep.
0300		Pt asleep.
0330		Pt very quiet. Appears to be asleep, no movement.
0400		Pt asleep.
0500		Pt asleep.
0520		Pt awake, to head.

#134 [121] May 4 Wednesday

0500		Pt back to bed. Resting quietly in bed.
0600		Pt awake. Appears drowsy.
0630		Pt awake.
0700		Pt awake, to head.
0710		Pt back to bed.
0730		Pt to head, shave & shower. C. Stuthers
0750		Assumed watch. (WB)
0755	B/P 128/84 TPR 98.6-60-20	Pt up drinking coffee.
0800	Insulin 35 U	Given I.M.
0815	Metamucil Z i	Given as ordered.
0830	B/P 120/86 P 64 R 18	Pt resting in bed at time of B/P, then up fooling around with blinds.
0930	B/P 144/76 P 64 R 18	Pt up walking around. Complaining of not having enough air in room.
0940		Dr. Smith to see Pt.
0950	B/P 144/80 P 60 R 18	Pt resting in bed. Seems to be in a fog. Slight perspiration.

#135 [122] May 4 Wednesday

1030	B/P 144/82 P 60 R 18	Pt resting in bed. Slight perspiration. Skin cold and somewhat clammy.
1055	B/P 130/82 P 64 R 18	Dr. Hightower here.
1100		Terminated with 35 cc dextrose in orange juice.
1155	TPR 98.2-80-20 Lunch	Pt up walking around room, eating crackers. Served. Pt ate very well.
1300		Pt resting in bed.
1400		Dr. Smith here for a few minutes.
1500		Pt sitting in chair reading.
1515	Extra feeding.	Pt ate most of this.
1530	Thiamin chl. Liver ex. } 1 cc ea.	Given as ordered.
1540		Dr. Raines to see Pt.
1xxx		Wife to see Pt.
1645		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
1645		Relieved the watch. (E. W. Prise)
1720		Dr. Raines left. Pt seems very cheery this evening.
17xx	Dinner	Pt served dinner.
1750		Pt finished dinner. Ate

#136 [123] May 4 – May 5 Thursday

		very good.
1830		Pt sitting in chair reading.
1900		Pt seen by Dr. Deen.
1915		Dr. Deen left. Pt in unusually good mood.
2000	98.8-66-20	Pt sitting in bed thinking.
2030		Pt resting very quiet.
2100	Extra feeding.	Served. Pt ate fair.
2110	Na amytal grs vi	Pt resting quietly.
2200		Pt resting quietly.
2225		Pt sleeping.
2300		Pt sleeping.
2400		Pt appears to be sleeping.
0100		Pt sleeping.
0115		Relieved by night watch. (E. W. Prise)
0115		Assumed watch. (C. Stuthers) Pt appears to be sleeping.
0200		Pt appears to be sleeping.
0300		Pt asleep.
0400		Pt asleep.
0500		Pt asleep.
0545		Pt awake.
0600		Pt awake.

#137 [124] May 5 Thursday

0630		Pt awake, resting quietly.
0700		Pt awake.
0730		Pt to head.
0750		Relieved by day crew. C. Stuthers
0750		Assumed watch. [Breon] Pt still in head shaving at 0800.
0802	Insulin 35 U B/P 130/84 TPR 98-64-20	Given. Pt drinking coffee.
0820	Metamucil Z i	Given as ordered.
0830	B/P 129/80 P 62 R 20	Pt up reading paper.
0900	B/P 118/80 P 60 R 18	Pt sat up in bed and pulled the call-light out of the wall. Then he tried to plug the radio in where the ear-phones go. Adm. Swanson here to see Pt.
0920		Dr. Smith here.
0950		Dr. Smith left.
1000	B/P 130/76 P 60 R 18	Pt seems very restless. He kept clicking fingers when B/P was being taken. In bed reading.
1030	B/P 138/80 P 60 R 18	Pt perspiring somewhat. Skin cold & clammy.

#138 [125] May 5 Thursday

1040		Dr. Hightower here.
1055	B/P 130/76 P 60 R 18	Pt resting quietly.
11x0		Terminated with 35 cc dextrose in orange [juice] with 2 pieces of toast, some crackers & cheese.
1120		Pt asleep.
1200	TPR 97-62-18	Pt resting.
1210		Relieved for chow.
1215	Lunch	Served. Pt ate fairly well.
1245		Returned from chow.
1300		Pt resting in bed. Continuously picking at right forehead.
1400		Pt up walking around room.
1430	Thiamin chl. Liver ex. } 1 cc ea.	Pt sitting in chair resting.
1435		Dr. Raines here to see Pt.
1500	Extra feeding	Pt ate most of it.
1610		Dr. Raines left.
1615		Wife to see Pt.
1630		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
1630		Relieved watch. Pt’s wife still visiting Pt. (E. W. Prise)
1645		Pt paid $1.60 to newsboy for papers.
1715		Pt’s wife left. Pt walking about room. Appears to be in good mood.

#139 [126] May 5 – May 6 Friday

1735	Dinner	Served. Pt seems to have a good appetite.
1755		Pt finished dinner. Ate very good. Sitting quietly in bed.
1830		Pt sitting quietly in chair thinking.
1910		Pt visited by Dr. Hightower.
1930	98.6-66-22	Pt given pitcher of orange juice upon his request.
2000		Pt sitting quietly in chair.
2100	Extra feeding	Pt requested a glass of milk & a sandwich.
2115	Na amytal grs vi	Pt finished extra feeding. Ate fair.
2200		Pt walking around room. Complains of it being “unbearably hot in room”.
2300		Pt resting. Still awake.
2400		Relieved by night watch. (E. W. Prise)
2400		Assumed watch. Pt awake. [Stuthers]
2430		Pt awake. Complains of heat.

#140 [127] May 6 Friday

0100		Pt awake.
0130		Pt awake. Room hot, has odor of stale tobacco, probably pipe.
0215		Pt asleep.
0230		Pt asleep.
0300		Pt asleep.
0310		Pt awake. Complains of heat.
0330		Pt awake.
0340		Pt asleep.
0400		Pt asleep.
0430		Pt asleep.
0500		Pt asleep.
0530		Pt asleep.
0600		Pt asleep. Pt seemed restless & agitated most of night. Did not rest well.
0700		Pt awake.
0715		Pt awake. To head.
0730		Pt awake. Walking about room. Relieved by day crew. (C. Stuthers)

#141 [128] May 6 Friday

0755	Insulin 35 U IM B/P 132/84 99.2-58-20	Relieved the watch. Insulin given as ordered. [Prise]
0810	Metamucil Z i	Given as ordered.
0830	B/P 128/88 P 62 R 20	Pt sitting in bed.
0900	B/P 124/82 P 62 R 20	Pt lying quietly in bed.
0920		Pt visited by Dr. Smith.
0950	B/P 132/74 P 56 R 20	Dr. Smith left. Pt sitting in chair. Has a slight twitching of arms & legs. Skin cold & clammy & very flushed.
1040	P 62 R 22	Pt started to ask corpsman something but all he could say was “I’ll have a little.” When corpsman asked Pt what was wrong he stated “I ! I can’t think” and got a frightened look on his face.

#142 [129] May 6 Friday

1055	B/P 140/88 P 54 R 18 Dextrose 35 cc	Pt terminated by Dr. Hightower.
1115		Pt says he thinks he has pretty well pulled out of it now.
1205	Lunch	Served. Pt has been dozing for the past 45 minutes.
1230		Pt visited by Dr. Raines.
1425		Dr. Raines left. Pt taking a shower.
1440		Pt visited by son.
1450	Thiamin chl. 1 cc Liver ex. 1 cc }	Pt’s son left. Pt resting quietly in bed.
1510	Extra feeding	Pt lying quietly in bed.
1515		Pt ate very good. Resting quietly.
1600		Pt visited by Dr. Smith.
16xx		Dr. Smith left. Pt visited by wife.
1645		Relieved by evening watch. (E. W. Prise)
1645		Assumed the watch. (WB)
1650		Wife left.
1700		Pt up walking around room.
1725		The President of the United States [Harry Truman] to see Pt.
		[further entries, if any, missed by photocopy]

#143 [130] May 6 – May 7 Saturday

1735	Dinner	Served. Pt stated he did not want much but he did eat all.
1925		Dr. Hightower here.
2000	B/P 106/74 TPR 98.8-64-18	Pt resting quietly.
2050	Extra feeding	Pt ate half a sandwich and 1/2 glass milk.
2100	Na amytal gr vi	Taken as ordered.
2200		Pt very quiet. Apparently asleep.
2300		Pt apparently asleep.
2345		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
2400		Assumed watch. Pt apparently sleeping. [Stuthers]
0100		Pt asleep.
0200		Pt asleep.
0300		Pt asleep.
0400		Pt asleep.
0500		Pt asleep.
0510		Pt awake, lying quietly in bed.
0530		Pt awake.
0600		Pt awake. Pt slept well, in spite of heat

#144 [131] May 7 Saturday

		of room.
0630		Pt awake.
0700		Pt awake.
0715	Wt. 150	Pt to head, shave.
0750		Relieved by day crew. C. Stuthers
0750		Assumed watch. (WB)
0800	B/P 120/78 TPR 98-56-18	Pt resting in bed. Pt would not give razor to other corpsman. Day corpsman got it when policing head.
0900	Metamucil Z i	Pt up for last hour.
0930		Dr. Smith here.
1015		Dr. Smith left.
1100		Pt sitting in chair.
1120		Dr. Raines here.
1230	Lunch	Pt ate fairly well.
1350		Dr. Raines left.
1355	Na amytal gr iii	Given as ordered.
1400	Thiamin HCl Liver ex. } 1 cc ea.	Given. Pt resting in bed.
1500		Pt resting in bed. Extra feeding not sent up from galley.
1515	Extra feeding.	Pt ate half of sandwich & drank a glass of milk. Pt resting in bed. Up several times to head.

#145 [132] May 7 – May 8 Sunday

1600	TPR 98.8-66-20	Pt resting in bed.
1650		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
1650		Relieved the watch. Pt resting. (E. W. Prise)
1710	Dinner	Served. Pt seems a bit drowsy.
1725		Pt finished dinner. Resting quietly.
1740		Pt visited by wife.
1810		Pt’s wife left. Pt resting.
1900		Pt resting nicely.
1925		Pt visited by Dr. Deen.
1950		Dr. Deen left. Pt sitting in bed smoking.
2100	Extra feeding.	Pt ate very well.
2115	Na amytal gr iv	Pt given “sleeping pills”. xxxx quietly in bed.
2200		Pt very quiet.
2245		Pt sleeping, or appears to be sleeping.
2330		Pt awake talking xxxx.
2400		Relieved by night watch. (E. W. Prise)
2400		Assumed watch. Pt appears to be sleeping. C. Stuthers

#146 [133] May 8 Sunday

0100		Pt asleep. Room cool.
0200		Pt asleep.
0300		Pt asleep.
0315		Pt awake. Asked if the corpsman was cold, remarked about change in weather.
0345		Pt appears to be sleeping very quiet.
0400		Pt asleep.
0500		Pt asleep.
0530		Pt awake.
0600		Pt awake, lying quietly in bed.
0700		Pt awake.
0730		Pt to head, shave.
0755		Relieved by day watch. (C. Stuthers)
0755		Assumed watch. (WB)
0805	Wt. 150 1/2	Dr. Deen here.
0810	Breakfast	Pt ate fairly well. Stated he didn’t want much but he ate good.
0845	Metamucil Z i	Taken.
0900		Resting quietly.
1000		Resting.

#147 [134] May 8 Sunday

1100		Pt resting in bed.
1120		Dr. Raines here.
1145	Lunch	Served. Pt ate fairly well.
1335	Na amytal gr iii	Given as ordered. Dr. Raines left. New orders given.
1400		Pt resting in bed.
1500		Pt slightly nervous. Up walking around room.
1530	Extra feeding.	Pt did not eat much. Half a sandwich and small amount of milk.
1600	TPR 98.x-60-18	Pt resting in bed.
1640		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
1640		Relieved the watch. E. W. Prise, HA
1740	Dinner	Served. Pt sent part of it back.
1800	Multi-vit tab’t	Pt finished dinner. Ate fairly good.
1900		Pt sitting in chair reading. Is in very good mood.
2000	T 98.6 P 60 R 20	Pt still reading.
2100	Extra feeding	Pt has taken cover off of night light to unscrew light

#148 [135] May 8 – May 9 Monday

		and is unable to replace it.
2110	Na amytal grs vi	Pt finished evening feeding. Ate very little.
2200		Pt awake. Has been walking about room for past hour.
2250		Pt requested a “coke”. When corpsman went into galley to get it, Pt followed and got himself a glass to share coke with doctor. Dr. Deen with Pt.
2335		Pt appears to have fallen asleep.
2400		Pt sleeping.
2430		Relieved by night watch. (E. W. Prise)
2430		Assumed watch. Pt appears to be asleep. [Stuthers]
0100		Pt asleep.
0130		Pt asleep.
0200		Pt awake, turning back & forth in bed.
0230		Pt went to head. Came out. Back in bed.
0300		Pt asleep.
0330		Pt asleep.
0400		Pt asleep.
0430		Pt asleep.

#149 [136] May 9 Monday

0500		Pt asleep.
0530		Pt awake.
0545		Pt awake, walking about room looking out of door in his room. Spoke to tower corpsman.
06000		Pt back in bed. Seems restless.
0630		Pt awake.
0700	Phenobarbital gr iss	Pt to head, shave.
0730	Insulin 20 U IM	Pt in bed, resting quietly.
0800		Relieved by day crew. (C. Stuthers)
0800	B/P 134/76 TPR 98-66-18	Assumed watch. WB
0805	Metamucil Z i	Given as ordered.
0810	Breakfast	Served. Pt ate very good.
0825		Pt given glass of orange juice with enough dextrose to terminate 10 U insulin, as too much was given this a.m.
0830	Multi-vit tab’t	Given as ordered.
0830		Pt resting in bed.
0910		Dr. Smith here.
0940		Dr. Smith left.
1000		Pt setting in bed smoking.
1100		Pt resting in chair.

#150 [137] May 9 Monday

1130	Phenobarbital gr 1ss	Given as ordered. Pt very inquisitive as to new medications.
1150	TPR 98.6-70-20	Pt resting in bed.
1205	Lunch	Served. Pt ate fairly well.
1300		Pt pulled bed lamp over in front of him and is now hanging on it.
1400		Pt setting in chair. Still keeps picking at forehead.
1445		Dr. Raines.
1510	Extra feeding	Pt did very well on this.
1635		Dr. Raines left. Pt’s wife in room.
1645		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
1645		Relieved the watch. Pt sitting in bed talking to corpsman. E. W. Prise
17x5	Metamucil Z i	Pt lying very comfortably in bed.
1745	Dinner	Served. Pt says he is not very hungry.
1800	Multi-vit tab’t	Pt finished dinner. Ate very good. Requested to see doctor.
1900		Pt sitting in chair reading. Seen by Dr. Hightower.
1920		Pt visited by oldest son.

#151 [138] May 9 Monday

1925		Pt’s son left.
1935		Dr. Hightower left. Pt walking about room.
2000		Pt resting quietly.
2030	Extra feeding	Dr. Hightower in to see Pt. Pt requested to take Na amytal at 2200.
2100		Pt lying very quiet in bed.
2145		Pt appears to be sleeping.
2200		Pt seems to be asleep, so I [the corpsman] did not wake him to give him his Na amytal.
2230	Na amytal grs vi	Pt did not want to take medication but when corpsman insisted, he took them and went into head.
2300		Pt still awake. States “I will go to sleep if they turn that thing off.” When asked “What thing?” he said “The thing that is piping that etherish odor into

#152 [139] May 9 – May 10 Tuesday

		the room.
2325		Pt seen by Dr. Hightower. Sitting up in chair.
2335		Pt desired to sleep in doctors’ room with Dr. Hightower.
2350		Relieved by night watch. Pt sleeping in room with Dr. Hightower. (E. W. Prise)
2400		Assumed watch. Pt not in room. Appears to be sleeping in room with Dr. Hightower. [Stuthers]
0100		Pt appears to be sleeping, still in doctors’ room.
0200		No change.
0300		No change.
0315		Pt returned to his own room. Wanted to know what time he had to be up.
0330		Pt asleep.
0400		Pt asleep, tossing about.
0500		Pt asleep.
0530		Pt awake. Pt lying in bed very quiet.

#153 [140] May 10 Tuesday

		Nurse’s Notes
0600	--	Pt awake in bed.
0700		Pt awake in bed.
0730	Phenobarbital gr iss Insulin 10 U IM	Pt to head, shave. Given as ordered.
0750		Relieved by day watch. (C. Stuthers)
0750		Assumed watch. (WB)
0800	B/P 118/82 TPR 98.2-60-18	Pt resting in bed.
0805	Breakfast	Served. Pt ate fairly well.
0820	Multi-vit tab’t Metamucil Z i	Given as ordered. Pt takes xxxx.
0900		Pt setting in chair resting.
0920		Dr. Smith to see Pt.
0955		Dr. Smith left. Pt asked for cup of coffee. Was given same. Adm. Willcutts here for a minute.
1045		Pt requested small glass of orange juice. Was given same.
1100		Pt setting in chair smoking.
1130	Phenobarbital gr iss Insulin 10 U	Given as ordered. Pt still asking questions about medication.
1155	TPR 98.2-60-18	Pt resting in chair.
1200	Lunch	Served to Pt. Pt ate very well.
1300		Pt asleep. Only slept 10 minutes.
1400		Pt resting in chair.
1500		Pt resting in chair.

#154 [141] May 10 Tuesday

1505	Extra feeding.	Pt ate half of sandwich & drank most of milk.
1520		Dr. Raines here to see Pt.
1x30		Dr. Raines left.
1615		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
1615		Relieved the watch. (E. W. Prise)
1705	Metamucil Z i	Pt sitting comfortably in bed.
1715		Dr. Deen visited Pt.
1720	Dinner	Pt stated he didn’t want much.
1745		Pt finished dinner. Ate very good.
1805		Pt’s wife in to visit him.
1830	Multi-vit tab’t	Pt’s wife left. Pt resting.
1915		Dr. Deen to see Pt.
2000		Pt sitting in doctors’ room.
20x5	Evening feeding	Taken in by nurse.
2045		Pt finished eating. Ate very good.
2100	Na amytal grs iv	Pt brushing teeth. Has all the lights out.
2200		Pt lying very quiet in bed.
2300		Pt appears to be asleep.
2345		Relieved by night watch. Pt sleeping. (E. W. Prise)

#155 [142] May 10 – May 11 Wednesday

2345		Assumed watch. Pt asleep. [Stuthers]
2400	[« as written]	Pt went into doctors’ room. Appears to be asleep.
2430	[« as written]	Pt asleep.
2400	[« as written]	Pt got out of bed, stood by bed a minute & went into head. Then into doctors’ room & into bed in doctors’ room.
2415		Pt appears to be asleep.
2430		Pt asleep.
0100		Pt asleep.
0200		Pt asleep.
0300		Pt came back to own room & into bed.
0310		Pt appears to be asleep.
0330		Pt asleep.
0400		Pt asleep.
0500		Pt asleep.
0530		Pt awake.
0600		Pt awake.

#156 [143] May 11 Wednesday

xxxx		Pt to head. [?] [illegible]
xxxx	xxxx	Relieved by day crew. (C. Stuthers)
xxxx	xxxx	Assumed watch. (WB) Pt xxx xxx xxxx out of xxxx xx xxx corpsman went in xxx xxxx xxxxx.
xxxx	B/P xxxx TPR xxxx	Pt resting in bed.
B/P xxx TPR xxx	Breakfast	Served. Pt ate very good.
xxxx	Multi-vit tab’t	Given as ordered.
xxxx		Pt resting in bed smoking.
xxxx		Dr. Smith here.
1005		Dr. Smith left.
1100		Pt resting in bed.
1130	Insulin 10 U	Pt stated room was “stuffy” and asked to have door to other room open. Room temp. is down to about 40 now. Corpsman said xxxx will become cold, xxxx xxxx said we’ll close the windows.
115x	TPR 97-54-18	Room door opened & head door closed. Room still cold but not quite so breezy. Pt still xxxx xxxx.

#157 [144] May 11 Wednesday

1200	Lunch	Served. Pt ate fairly well.
1245		Barber here. Pt getting haircut.
1310		Head cleaned. Pt in bed.
1400		Dr. Smith here.
1405		Dr. Smith left.
1445		Pt’s brother here.
1455		Pt’s brother left. Dr. Smith here.
1500		Pt pacing around room asking for Dr. Smith. (Dr. Smith in passageway talking.) Eating nuts he received today.
1510		Still pacing around room. Opened door several times to see if doctor was still here. [Breon]
1515		Pt visited by Gen. Marshall.
1530		Gen. Marshall left.
1545	Extra feeding.	Dr. Raines with Pt.
1630		Relieved the watch. (E. W. Prise)
1645		Pt visited by his son.
1735	Dinner	Served. Dr. Raines & Pt’s son left.
1755		Finished dinner. Ate very

#158 [145] May 11 – May 12 Thursday

		good.
1800	Multi-vit tab’t	Pt resting quietly.
1900		Pt sitting in chair. xxxxxxx to be in deep thought.
2000		Dr. Hightower in to see Pt.
2045	Extra feeding.	Pt states he does not want all that is on his tray.
2100	Na amytal grs iv	Pt ate 1/2 a sandwich & a glass of milk.
2130		Pt went into doctors’ room to sleep.
2200		Pt still in doctors’ room, lying very quiet with door open.
2205		Pt appears to be asleep.
2300		Pt seems to be asleep.
2355		Relieved by night crew. (E. W. Prise)
2400		Assumed watch. Pt in doctors’ room. Appears to be asleep. [Stuthers]
0100		Pt asleep.
0200		Pt asleep.
0250		Pt awake, in head.

#159 [146] May 12 Thursday

0300		Pt in own bed, awake.
0310		Pt to head. Closed door. Venetian blinds were heard rattling. Crossing hall to doctors’ room, found Pt with blind up & window wide open. When corpsman started toward Pt he dropped blind & returned to his own bed. Pt complained about buzzer at nurse’s station that sounded several times.
0330		Pt awake.
0345		Pt appears to be asleep.
0400		Pt appears to be asleep, restless.
0415		Pt asleep.
0430		Pt asleep.
0445		Pt awake. Asked time.
0500		Pt awake.
0530		Pt awake.
0600		Pt awake, restless.
0700		Pt awake, lying in bed.
0730	Insulin 10 U IM Phenobarbital gr iss	Pt to head, shave & shower.

#160 [147] May 12 Thursday

0755	Sod. phosphate Z i with Metamucil	Relieved by day crew. (C. Stuthers) Assumed watch. (WB)
0800	B/P 118/78 TPR 94-54-18	Pt resting in bed.
0855	Breakfast	Served. Pt ate fairly well.
0820	Multi-vit tab’t	Given as ordered. Bed linen changed. A small sharp metal object was found in his bed when it was made up.
0900		Pt resting in bed.
1000		Pt up walking around, eating nuts & dates.
1010		Dr. Smith here.
1055		Dr. Smith left.
1100		Pt seems rather sleepy today. Resting in bed now.
1130	Insulin 10 U I.M. Phenobarbital gr iss	Given as ordered. Pt resting in bed. Rather sleepy.
1200	Lunch	Served. Pt ate good.
1245	TPR 98-68-18	Pt resting.
1400		Pt resting comfortably in bed. Still picking at forehead.
1445		Pt up: opening boxes xx xxx, and then throwing them down.

#161 [148] May 12 Thursday

1500		Pt up walking around. Went into other room to look around.
1515		Dr. Raines here.
1545	Extra feeding.	Pt did very well on this.
1605		Pt’s brother here for few minutes. W. R. Breon, HN
1645		Relieved the watch. Dr. Raines with Pt. (E. W. Prise)
1650		Pt visited by son.
1720		Dr. Raines left.
1730	Dinner	Served. Pt states he is not hungry.
1745		Pt finished dinner. Ate very good.
1815	Multi-vit tab’t	Pt lying in bed in doctors’ room.
1830		Pt visited by Dr. Smith.
1900		Dr. Smith left. Pt back in his room.
1910		Pt appears to be sleeping.
2000		Dr. Deen to see Pt but Pt was sleeping.
2030		Pt woke up. Asked about door between rooms being closed.

#162 [149] May 12 – May 13 Friday

2050		Pt refused his evening feeding. He said “I don’t want anything at all tonight.”
2100	Na amytal grs iv	Pt lying in bed resting.
2110		Pt asked corpsman to get his tooth paste. When I [the corpsman] went to get it I found he had none. Pt states he had some this a.m.
2140		Pt asleep.
2300		Pt sleeping soundly.
2400		Watch relieved by night man. E. W. Prise
2400		Assumed watch. Pt asleep. [Stuthers]
0100		Pt asleep.
0200		Pt asleep.
0300		Pt asleep.
0315		Pt tossed about bed a few times. Appears to be awake. Made no comment.

#163 [150] May 13 Friday

0330		Pt appears to be sleeping, very quiet.
0400		Pt asleep.
0500		Pt asleep.
0600		Pt asleep.
0615		Pt awoke at this time. Greeted corpsman, sounded very cheerful. Pt rested very well during night.
0630		Pt awake, lying in bed.
0700		Pt awake.
0730	Insulin 10 U (IM) Phenobarbital gr iss	Shower & shave.
0755		Relieved by day watch. (C. Stuthers)
0755		Assumed watch. [Breon]
0800	Pt 108/76 TPR xx-62-20	Pt resting in bed.
0815	Breakfast	Served. Pt resting quietly.
0900	Multi-vit tab’t	Given as ordered.
1000		Pt up walking around eating nuts, prunes, cheesecake, etc.
1040		Dr. Smith here.
1100		[? Dr. Smith left.]

#164 [151] May 13 Friday

1130	Insulin 10 U Phenobarbital gr iss	Given as ordered. Pt resting in bed.
1155	TPR 97.2-58-20	Pt resting in bed now.
1200	Lunch	Served. Pt ate good.
1230		Dr. Raines here.
1415		Dr. Raines left.
1500	Extra feeding. TPR 98.2-56-18	Pt ate most of it. Pt requested door to other room be left open.
1645		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
1645		Relieved the watch. E. W. Prise
1715	Dinner	Served. Pt eating.
1735		Pt finished dinner. Ate fairly well.
1805		Mr. Biffle in to visit Pt.
1815	Multi-vit tab’t	Mr. Biffle left. Pt resting.
1900		Pt sitting in chair. Appears to be in deep thought.
2000		Pt sitting in bed reading.
2100	Na amytal gr iv Milk 150 cc	Pt refused evening feeding. Would not take anything but 1/2 a glass of milk.
2200		Pt resting but is not asleep.

#165 [152] May 13 – May 14 Saturday

2300		Pt has been in & out of bed almost constantly the past hour. Resting quietly at present time.
2315		Pt appears to be asleep.
2400		Pt woke up. Relieved by night watch. E. W. Prise
2400		Assumed watch. Pt appears to be asleep. [Stuthers]
0100		Pt asleep.
0200		Pt asleep.
0300		Pt asleep.
0330		Pt awake, to head.
0340		Pt back in bed.
0400		Pt asleep.
0500		Pt asleep.
0530		Pt asleep.
0655		Pt awake.
0655		Pt slept well entire night. Room was close & stuffy.
0700		Pt awake.

#166 – #167 missing (0700⁺ May 14 to c. 2100 May 15)

#168 [153] May 14 – May 15 Sunday

2xxx		Pt got up & brushed teeth.
2200		Pt resting.
2235		Pt sleeping.
2300		Pt sleeping.
2400		Pt sleeping. Watch relieved. (E. W. Prise)
2400		Assumed watch. Pt asleep. [Stuthers]
0100		Pt asleep, restless. Room hot.
0200		Pt asleep.
0300		Pt asleep.
0310		Pt awake.
0330		Pt awake.
0335		Pt appears to be asleep.
0400		Pt asleep.
0430		Pt asleep.
0500		Pt asleep.
0530		Pt asleep.
0600		Pt asleep.
0620		Pt awake.
0700		Pt awake.
0730	Phenobarbital gr iss Insulin 10 U (IM)	Relieved by day crew. (C. Stuthers)

#169 [154] May 15 Sunday

0800		Relieved the watch. (WB) Pt still in head shaving.
0805	Breakfast TPR 97.4-54-18	Served. Pt ate very good. Ate two extra pieces of toast & coffee.
0845	Metamucil Z i Multi-vit tab’t	Given as ordered. Pt resting in bed.
0900		Pt resting in bed.
1000		Pt up walking around. Seems drowsy from “Pheno”.
1100		Pt resting in bed.
1130	Insulin 10 U Phenobarbital gr iss	Pt up walking around. Eating cheese sticks, nuts & etc.
1155	TPR 98-56-18 Lunch	Pt resting. Asking questions about insulin & other medications. Served. Pt ate very good.
1300		Pt resting in bed.
1400		Pt up walking around room.
1500		Pt setting in chair resting.
1515	Extra feeding	Pt only ate a small portion of sandwich.
1600	TPR 98.6-60-20	Pt resting in chair.
1645		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN

#170 [155] May 15 Sunday

1645		Relieved the watch. E. W. Prise
1700		Pt requested to have windows shut. When corpsman raised blind to close window Pt jumped back as if he were afraid of the light, got very fidgety and tried to pull blind down while corpsman was closing window.
1715	Dinner	Room is totally dark. Pt finished dinner. Ate very poorly.
1800	Multi-vit tab’t	Pt resting.
1900		Pt sitting in chair, very quiet.
1940		Pt appears to be asleep.
2035		Pt awake.
2055	Extra feeding	Pt refused everything except 1/4 a glass of milk.
2100	Error ~~Na amytal grs vi~~	Pt resting in chair.
2200		Pt has been walking about room for the past hour. Sitting in chair at present time.
2250		Dr. Hightower to see Pt.

#171 [156] May 15 – May 16 Monday

2255	Na amytal grs vi	Dr. Hightower discovered that Pt did not take his Na amytal.
2305		Pt back in bed.
2340		Pt appears to be asleep.
2400		Watch relieved. Pt awake. E. W. Prise
2400		Assumed watch. Pt awake. [Stuthers]
2430		Pt awake. Tossing back & forth in bed.
2445		Pt awake, out of bed, walking about room. More windows open.
0100		Pt back in bed, sitting up.
0115		Pt out of bed, walking up & down room. Looking out door of room, said “There seems to be a lot of ether in here.” When further sedation was suggested, Pt did not answer. Returned to bed.
0135		Pt awake, sitting in bed.
0200		Pt awake, in bed.

#172 [157] May 16 Monday

0230		Pt awake.
0245		Pt now appears to be asleep.
0300		Pt asleep.
0330		Pt asleep.
0400		Pt asleep.
0430		Pt asleep.
0500		Pt asleep.
0530		Pt asleep.
0600		Pt asleep.
0615		Pt awake. Very quiet.
0700		Pt awake. Lying in bed.
0730	Insulin 10 U (IM)	Pt to head, shave & shower.
0800		Relieved by day crew. C. Stuthers
0800		Assumed watch. (WB)
0805	Breakfast	Served. Pt ate fairly well.
0810	Metamucil Z i Multi-vit tab’t	Taken as ordered. Pt seems rather “down in the dumps” today. Up walking around. Asking corpsman when he thinks Dr. Raines will be here.
0820	B/P 124/x2 TPR 98.2-66-20	Pt resting in bed. Still picks at forehead.

#173 [158] May 16 Monday

0900		Pt setting in chair. Seems to be in deep thought.
0905		Dr. Smith here to see Pt.
0935		Dr. Smith left.
1000		Setting in chair resting.
1100		Pt still setting in chair.
1130	Insulin 10 U	Given as ordered.
1155	TPR 98-68-20	Pt resting in bed.
1200	Lunch	Served. Pt standing up to eat. Pt takes a couple of bites and then walks around a bit, then back for some more. Pt salted food with almost every bite. Couldn’t get enough from shaker top so he took it off & poured the salt on. Pt ate pretty good.
1300		Pt resting in chair.
1400		Pt resting in chair.
1415		Pt requested 1/2 the cake & milk he left this noon. Given same.
1500		Pt up walking around room.
1505		Extra feeding brought in & Pt stated he did not want any of it. (Put in “reefer”.)

#174 [159] May 16 Monday

1530		Dr. Raines in to see Pt. W. R. Breon, HN
1640		Relieved the watch. E. W. Prise
1705		Dr. Raines left. Pt sitting in chair reading paper.
1715	Dinner	Served. Pt asked what we would do about windows if it rains tonight.
1735	Multi-vit tab’t	Pt finished dinner. Ate very good.
1850	T.P.R. 98.6-98-20	Pt sitting in doctors’ room. Appears to be thinking about something.
1925		Pt asked corpsman “Have you and Breon been taking down the conversations between me and Dr. Raines?” When I [the corpsman] told him we weren’t, he demanded to talk to Dr. Raines. Corpsman was unable to talk him out of it. Pt then shown to telephone booth and allowed to call. After calling doctor, Pt called corpsman into room and said “Prise, can you assure me on your honor that there

#175 [160] May 16 Monday

		is no apparatus here that can take down our conversations?” Nothing I told him would change his opinion.
1945		Dr. Deen in to see Pt.
1955		Dr. Deen left. Pt sitting in bed, still questioning corpsman.
2030		Pt has been very quiet.
2035		Pt into head to brush teeth.
2045		Pt refused evening feeding. Into bed lying very quiet.
2100	Na amytal grs iii	Pt said he only took one of his sleeping pills. When asked what he [had] done with the other, he stated “I flushed it down the drain.”
2200		Pt has been lying very quietly in bed for past hour but is still awake.
2230		Pt sleeping.
2xxx		Assumed watch. Pt awake. [Stuthers] Dr. Deen to see Pt.

#176 [161] May 16 – May 17 Tuesday

2330		Pt awake. Asked to have door between rooms open. Room is warm.
2400		Pt awake.
2430		Pt awake.
0100		Pt awake.
0130		Pt now appears to be asleep.
0200		Pt asleep.
0300		Pt asleep.
0400		Pt asleep.
0430		Pt asleep. Turning back & forth in bed.
0500		Pt asleep.
0600		Pt asleep.
0700		Pt awake.
0715		To head, shave.
0730	Insulin 10 U (IM)
0800		Relieved by day watch. (C. Stuthers)
0800	B/P 106/72 TPR 98.4-56-18	Assumed watch. (WB)
0810	Breakfast	Served. Pt ate very good today.

#177 [162] May 17 Tuesday

08xx	Multi-vit tab’t Phenobarbital Z i	Given as ordered. Pt resting in bed.
0900		Pt resting in bed.
1000		Pt resting in chair.
1040		Dr. Smith & Dr. Nardini here to see Pt.
1130	Insulin 10 U	Given as ordered.
1155	TPR 98.x-x0-18	Pt resting in bed.
1210	Lunch	Served. Pt ate fairly well.
1x0x		Pt up in chair. Bed linen changed.
1400		Pt resting in chair.
1440	Extra feeding	Pt ate about half of this.
15x0		Pt resting in chair.
1540		Dr. Raines here.
1645		Dr. Raines left. Watch Relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
1645		Relieved the watch. E. W. Prise
1735	Multi-vit tab’t	Pt finished dinner. Ate very good.
1820		Dr. Hightower to see Pt.

#178 [163] May 17 Tuesday

1835		Dr. Hightower left. Pt seems to be in a very good mood.
1900	T.P.R. 99-84-20	Pt sitting in chair thinking.
1925		Dr. Hightower back to see Pt.
2000		Dr. Hightower still with Pt.
2005		Dr. Hightower left. Pt resting quietly.
2050	Extra feeding	Taken in by nurse.
2100	Na Amytal grs vi	Pt finished extra feeding. Ate very good. Dr. Hightower in to see Pt.
2110		Dr. Hightower left. Pt resting quietly.
2205		Pt appears to be asleep.
2300		Pt sleeping.
2400		Watch relieved. Pt sleeping. E. W. Prise

#179 [164] May 18 Wednesday

2400		Assumed watch. Pt sleeping. [Stuthers]
0100		Pt asleep. Room warm.
0200		Pt asleep.
0300		Pt asleep.
0400		Pt asleep.
0415		Pt awake. Went into head then went back to bed.
0430		Pt asleep.
0500		Pt asleep.
0600		Pt asleep.
0615		Pt awake, lying quietly in bed.
0715		Pt in head, shave & shower.
0730	Insulin 10 U (IM)
0800		Relieved by day watch. C. Stuthers
0800	B/P 110/72 TPR 97.6-56-18	Assumed watch. (WB)
080x	Breakfast	Served. Ate well.
0820	Multi-vit tab’t	Pt resting.
0830		Dr. Raines here.
0930	Metamucil Z i	Dr. Raines left.
1000		Pt resting in chair.
1100		Pt resting in chair.
1130	Insulin 10 U Phenobarbital xxxx	Given as ordered. xxxx xxxx

#180 [165] May 18 Wednesday

1200	TPR 98.6-xx-xx	Pt resting in chair.
	Lunch	Served. Pt ate fairly xxxx.
1300		Pt resting.
1400		Pt sets on edge of bed and stares at deck. Goes into head often [?].
1445	Extra feeding	Did not do too good on this.
1500		Pt setting in chair resting.
1515		Dr. Hightower here.
1530		Pt’s son here with butler.
1545		Son & butler left.
1630		Dr. Hightower left.
1645		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
		Relieved the watch. E. W. Prise
1725	Dinner	Served. Pt very much pleased with his tray.
1745		Pt finished dinner. Ate very good.
1800	Multi-vit tab’t	Pt resting quietly in bed.
1900	T.P.R. 98.4-78-20	Pt sitting up in chair. Appears to be in good mood.

#181 [166] May 18 – May 19 Thursday

2005		Dr. Deen to see Pt.
2010		Dr. Deen left. Pt resting.
2030		Pt appears to be asleep.
2100		Pt sleeping. Not given Na amytal.
2200		Pt still sleeping.
2300		Pt sleeping.
2400		Watch relieved. E. W. Prise
2400		Assumed watch. Pt sleeping. [Stuthers]
0100		Pt asleep.
0200		Pt asleep.
0230		Pt awake, seems confused. [*] Asked time. When told, wanted to know if he had to get up. Referred to corpsman as “Halsey”. Said he did not want any “sleeping pills”.
0300		Pt awake, very quiet.
0330		Pt awake. Again asked corpsman what time it was and if he should get up. Refused sodium amytal.
0345		Pt called Dr. Deen. Talked a few minutes, then returned to

[* One effect of sodium amytal (amobarbital) is to cause confusion or disorientation on awakening.]

#182 [167] May 19 Thursday

		room, asked for “pill”, got into bed. Resting quietly.
0415		Pt asleep.
0500		Pt asleep.
0530		Pt asleep.
0600		Pt asleep.
0615		Pt awake. Pt asked corpsman “What government officials are here? I think I’ll have to go now.” Pt went into doctors’ room & talked with doctor [for a] few minutes, then back to bed.
0730	Insulin 10 U (IM)	Pt sitting up in bed. Paid paper boy $1.65. Pt seems confused and in deep thought.
0755		Relieved by day watch. C. Stuthers
0755		Assumed watch. Pt in head shaving & showering. [Breon]
0805	Breakfast	Served. Pt ate very good.

#183 [168] May 19 Thursday

0830	Metamucil Z i Multi-vit tab’t	Given as ordered. Resting.
0900		Pt setting in chair.
0920		Dr. Nardini here.
1010		Dr. Nardini left.
1100		Pt up walking around inspecting the blinds.
1150	Insulin 10 U (IM) Phenobarbital gr iss	xxx given as ordered. Pt xxx xxx.
1200	TPR 98-60-1x	Pt resting in bed.
	Lunch	Served. Pt ate very well.
1300		Pt resting in chair.
1400		Pt up walking around room.
1440	Extra feeding.	Pt did not eat any of it. Asked to have it saved.
1500		Pt up walking around. Seems nervous today.
1600	TPR 98.x-96-20	Pt walking around room nervously for last hour. Keeps looking out blinds & then making sure no “light” is coming in. Pt making very close inspection of room, looking at blinds, checking xxxxxxx,

#184 [169] May 19 Thursday

		looking around chairs, looking at everything. Walking around very nervously. Sits in chair for moment then up for another “tour” of the room.
1635		Dr. Hightower here.
1650		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
[ ]		Relieved the watch. E. W. Prise
1715	Dinner	Served. Pt very quiet.
1735		Pt finished dinner. Sitting in bed, very quiet. Ate very good.
1815	Multi-vit tab’t	Pt sitting in chair reading. Seems to be in good mood.
1900		Pt sitting in chair reading.
1915		Pt visited by Dr. Hightower.
1955		Dr. Hightower left. Pt resting.
2055	Extra feeding.	Taken in by nurse. Refused by Pt.
2110	Na amytal grs vi	Pt resting quietly.
2140		Pt appears to be asleep.
2200		Pt sleeping.
2300		Pt sleeping.

#185 [170] May 19 – May 20 Friday

2400		Watch relieved. E. W. Prise
2400		Assumed watch. Pt appears to be sleeping. [Stuthers]
0100		Pt asleep.
0200		Pt asleep.
0245		Pt awake, to head.
0300		Pt appears to be sleeping.
0400		Pt asleep.
0500		Pt asleep.
0545		Pt awake.
0600		Pt awake.
0700		Pt awake.
0730	Insulin 10 U (IM)	Pt to head, shave.
0800		Relieved by day watch. C. Stuthers
0800		Assumed watch. (WB)
	Breakfast	Served. Ate very good.
0850	Metamucil Z i	Given as ordered.
0900	Multi-vit tab’t	Given as ordered. Pt up walking around.
0950		Dr. Nardini here.
1025		Dr. Nardini left.
1100		Pt resting in bed.

#186 [171] May 20 Friday

1130	Insulin 10 U Phenobarbital gr iss	Pt up walking around. Seems to be well rested.
1200	TPR 98-56-18	Pt resting.
1205	Lunch	Served. Pt seems very quiet. Looked like he didn’t have the strength to eat.
1300		Pt resting.
1330		Dr. Hightower here.
1420		Dr. Hightower left.
1445	Extra feeding.	Pt ate half of it.
1500		Pt resting very comfortably.
1600		Pt resting in bed.
1655		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
		Relieved the watch. E. W. Prise
1730	Dinner	Served. Pt asked to have part of it sent back.
1750		Pt finished dinner. Ate very good. Resting quietly in bed.
1800	Multi-vit tab’t	Pt does not appear to be in a very good mood.
1830		Dr. Hightower in to see Pt.
1910		Dr. Hightower left. Pt resting.
2000		Pt resting. May be asleep.
2030		Pt sleeping.

#187 [172] May 20 – May 21 Saturday

2100		Pt sleeping. Not awake for Na amytal.
2200		Pt sleeping soundly.
2300		Pt sleeping.
2400		Pt still sleeping.
0100		Pt sleeping.
0200		Pt sleeping.
0245		Watch relieved. E. W. Prise
		Relieved the watch. R. W. Harrison
0300		Pt sleeping.
0400		Pt sleeping.
0500		Pt sleeping.
0515		Pt awake.
0600		Pt apparently sleeping.
0645		Pt awake. Pt asked what time it was. When told by the corpsman, Pt rolled over and pulled up his cover.
0700		Pt sleeping.
0715		Pt awake.
0730	Insulin 10 U I.M.	Pt up and asked for razor. Pt given razor and toilet articles. Pt to head.

#188 [173] May 21 Saturday

0745		Watch relieved. [Harrison]
0745		Assumed watch. Pt in head shaving & showering. [Breon]
0800	B/P 108/74 TPR 97.8-54-18	Pt resting quietly.
0805	Breakfast	Pt ate fairly well.
0830	Metamucil Z i Multi-vit tab’t	Given as ordered. Pt up and about.
0900		Pt seems rather depressed today. Stated he didn’t want to see his visitor today. Dr. Nardini notified.
1000		Pt resting in bed.
1005		Dr. Nardini here.
1015		Dr. Nardini left.
1100		Pt resting very quietly. Has been very quiet all morning.
1130	Insulin 10 U (IM) Phenobarbital gr iss	Pt up & about room. Given as ordered.
1145		Relieved for chow.
1200	Lunch	Pt ate fairly well.
12xx		Returned from chow.
1300		Pt resting in bed.

#189 [174] May 21 Saturday

1400		Pt resting in bed.
1500	Extra feeding	Pt did not eat any of this.
1600		Pt up walking. Ate a few crackers & a glass of milk.
1650		Watch relieved. W. R. Breon, HN
		Relieved the watch. E. W. Prise
1710	Dinner	Served. Pt refused part of his dinner.
1715		Pt visited by son.
1730		Pt finished dinner. Ate very good.
1800	Multi-vit tab’t	Pt sitting in chair reading.
1945		Pt visited by Dr. Deen.
2000		Dr. Deen left. Pt in very good mood.
2100		Pt refused evening feeding.
2110	Error ~~Na amytal grs vi~~	Pt given Na amytal but I’m [the corpsman is] not sure he took them.
2120		Checked room. Pt did not

#190 [175] May 21 – May 22 Sunday

		take Na amytal. States “I don’t think I want them at all.” “I can sleep without them.”
2200		Pt has been pacing room constantly for past 50 minutes.
2300		Pt has been pacing floor for one hour & 50 minutes now. Refuses Na amytal.
2345		Watch relieved. E. W. Prise
		Watch assumed. R. W. Harrison
2400		Pt still pacing floor.
2405		Pt asked if he would receive any medications tonight. Corpsman told him that there was none except his Na amytal. Pt said “Thank you”, but refused [Na] amytal.
2415		Pt in bed. Pt said he was going to get some rest now.
2420		Pt asked for a half glass of orange juice. Pt got up to drink orange juice.

#191 [176] May 22 Sunday

2425		Pt in bed resting.
2435		Pt up to drink a cup of coffee.
2445		Pt in bed resting.
0100		Pt sleeping.
0130		Pt awake. Pt sat up in bed a second and then laid back down. When asked if he wanted his sleeping capsule, Pt replied “I was asleep and I just woke up. I’ll go back to sleep without it.”
0145		Corpsman saw doctor and asked about sleeping capsules for Pt. Doctor said to give them if he asks for them.
0150		Corpsman went back in room and Pt was not in bed.

Thoughts on Reading the Nurse’s Notes

Anyone reading the Nurse’s Notes will be struck by how normal Forrestal appears at the beginning. He may have been exhausted at the time of his admission but there is no sign of clinical depression.

Here are a few notes excerpted from the first two weeks, variously by Breon, Kipp, and Prise, starting with a note from the first day:

April  2   Pt ate fairly well at dinner tonight. ... Pt seems friendly.

April  3   Pt ate a good breakfast. ... (said breakfast was very good).

April  3   Pt shaves and showers with quick, exact movements. Helped to clean shower room and make bed.

April  3   Pt to head 3 times in 5 minutes ... Pt states the Phospho soda [a laxative] must be good “stuff”.

April  4   Very abrupt questions about special watches, past and present life, about living conditions now, prices and naval career.

April  4   Pt asked corpsman many questions as to Navy career, future, etc.

April  5   Pt asked a few questions to the corpsman of his Navy career, also corpsman’s name and what state he was from.

April  5   Talked about psychosis; that is, his viewpoints on it in comparison with religious fanatics. Asked me how many books I had read on N.P. [possibly neuropsychology or neuropsychiatry] and did I plan on furthering my studies.

April  5   Pt up and to head. Upon returning said “I’m afraid I won’t be a very good companion from now on because of the sedative.”

April  6   Dinner served. Pt ate fairly well. Stated he couldn’t eat it all and it was a shame to waste it. He offered it to the corpsman on watch.

April  7   Pt visited by son. When corpsman remarked on what a fine looking son he had, Pt said “Yes! He’s a fine boy.” ... Pt visited by wife. Appears to be in very good mood.

April  8   Pt awake. Lit up pipe and asked “I’m supposed to have some visitors this afternoon.” ... Pt sitting in bed very quiet. Seems perfectly at ease.

April  9   Pt woke up. Struck up conversation with corpsman by saying “Prise, you must begin to regard your patients as animals in a zoo after a while.” When I told him I didn’t, he smiled and said “That’s good.”

April  13   Seems very friendly and very consoling toward corpsman.

That last note was made after the 5th insulin “treatment” when the insulin therapy began in earnest. (The therapy started with 20 units on April 9 and by April 13th had increased to 40 units.) It sounds like Forrestal thought the corpsman might be worried about his reaction to the treatment.

From this point on Forrestal’s health deteriorated, obviously due to these treatments and perhaps the barbiturates given him, first sodium amytal then phenobarbital.

It’s worth repeating: Forrestal quickly recovered from his exhaustion and only became temporarily sick during the so-called insulin treatments and then permanently after the highest dosage ones. Also, probably the sedatives (barbiturates) he was given after the initial period did more harm than good. It must be stressed that this sickness was a physical malaise, and quite different from clinical depression.

Observe the increasingly claustrophobic prison atmosphere as the Notes progress. Things start off well enough but reading between the lines, relations do not seem so friendly after the higher doses of insulin begin about three weeks into his stay. And imagine being confined to a room, however VIP-like, for seven weeks, going on eight. After a month or so Forrestal was like a lion pacing a small cage, watched like a character out of Kafka.

-oOo-

You find the word “depressed” in two places. One is in the middle of a “sub-shock insulin therapy” treatment (April 28), the nineteenth of these barbaric “treatments.” You – anyone – would have good reason to feel miserable at that point.

The second time you find the word “depressed” is the day before Forrestal disappeared, May 21. Just what you would expect of a suicide, right?

But the argument works as well another way, works better considering the abundant evidence – separate and independent evidence – that Forrestal did not kill himself, that is, he was murdered. The man who wrote “seems depressed” was also the man on watch the day Forrestal disappeared. If Forrestal was murdered then this suggests a more sinister interpretation of the corpsman’s note. He could have been complicit, in which case he would want others to think Forrestal had been depressed before he disappeared.

The man doing the watch both times, the only times that man ever did the watch, was Robert Wayne Harrison, Jr. There is another reason to mistrust Harrison’s note of May 21 even if honest. Harrison had just met Forrestal and was in no position to reliably evaluate his mood. A stranger might easily confuse thoughtfulness, preoccupation, drowsiness (it was the 3rd shift), etc. with depression. And in any case in its severity clinical depression is something quite apart from merely being depressed in the colloquial sense.

Consider the manner in which Harrison expresses himself, after knowing Forrestal all of one hour and fifteen minutes:

May 21 0900 Pt seems rather depressed today.

– as compared to all the other days, which comparison he was in no position to make.

The previous watch, corpsman Prise, had come to know Forrestal quite well after having worked 51 consecutive days starting April 6. Consequently he was in a good position to judge Forrestal’s moods accurately. He had written a few hours before Harrison:

May 21 2000 Dr. Deen left. Pt in very good mood.

That said, Harrison may well have been correct about Forrestal being unhappy at 9 am but his “today” was – perhaps unintentionally – misleading. Something happened to Forrestal between the above two notes, as noted below, something from which he may not have recovered by the time Harrison saw him. Because of this Forrestal’s malaise was likely due to a physical problem lasting some hours rather than a mental state.

The previous day, May 20, Forrestal had become physically weak not long after a “stimulating” injection of insulin. The timeline went as follows. At 11:30 in the morning he is given 10 units of insulin. At this time (quoting corpsman Breon): “Pt up walking around. Seems to be well rested.” But by the time lunch is served at 12:05: “Pt seems very quiet. Looked like he didn’t have the strength to eat.” At 2:45 pm he is offered an extra meal, half of which he eats. When dinner is served at 5:30 pm (quoting corpsman Prise): “Pt asked to have part of it sent back.” By 5:50 pm: “He ate very good. Resting quietly in bed.” and 6:00 pm: “Pt does not appear to be in a very good mood.”

The next morning, May 21 at 7:30, he is given another injection of insulin, 10 units according to Harrison. Thus the context of Harrison’s note at 9:00 am: “Pt seems rather depressed today.” is the same as that of the previous day with Prise: 10 physiologically extraneous units of insulin had suddenly used up a proportional amount of his blood sugar. At first this is indeed “stimulating” as the existing sugar gets metabolized far more rapidly than normal, then the let down occurs because of the reduced sugar level.

The above delayed reactions repeat that of May 16: Insulin (10 units) at 7:30 am, then by 8:10 am (quoting Breon): “Pt seems rather ‘down in the dumps’ today.”

All these reactions to 10 units of insulin happened after the “insulin therapy” in which far higher doses had been given, up to 60 units. At the beginning of his stay 10 unit doses had little effect, the only reaction mentioned in the Notes is hunger.

In short, Forrestal’s periods of malaise were more physiological than psychological.

And keep in mind that no one would be happy after living several weeks under the conditions described in the Notes.

-oOo-

Forrestal has been asleep for half an hour, he wakes up, and 15 minutes later kills himself, supposedly. How many people have committed suicide right after awakening?

Forrestal’s brother Henry was to have come to Bethesda on May 22 to take Forrestal away regardless of the doctors. (See our introduction to the Willcutts Report, the section “The World Outside the Report.”) Doubtless on the evening of May 21 Forrestal, anticipating his release after seven weeks of confinement, was like a horse at the starting gate champing at the bit.

Here are the main entries for the last eight hours of Forrestal’s life (all times are per the corpsmen and accurate only to the nearest five minutes). Assuming Harrison’s and the other corpsmen’s notes are correct, Forrestal has not been given any insulin or phenobarbital since 11:30 am and not taken any sodium amytal pills since May 19 two days ago:

Saturday,
... May 21st
  4:50 pm
... ... E. W. Prise ..............................................................................
  5:15 pm Pt visited by son.
  5:30 pm Pt finished dinner. Ate very good.
  6:00 pm Pt sitting in chair reading.
  7:45 pm Pt visited by Dr. Deen.
  8:00 pm Dr. Deen left. Pt in very good mood.
  9:00 pm Pt refused evening feeding.
  ...
  9:20 pm ... Pt did not take Na amytal. States “I don’t think I want them at all.” “I can sleep without them.”
10:00 pm Pt has been pacing room constantly for past 50 minutes.
11:00 pm Pt has been pacing floor for one hour and 50 minutes now. Refuses Na amytal.
11:45 pm ... R. W. Harrison ..............................................................................
Sunday, May 22nd
12:00 am Pt still pacing floor.
12:05 am Pt asked if he would receive any medications tonight. Corpsman told him that there was none except his Na amytal. Pt said “Thank you”, but refused amytal.
12:15 am Pt in bed. Pt said he was going to get some rest now.
12:20 am Pt asked for a half glass of orange juice. Pt got up to drink orange juice.
12:25 am Pt in bed resting.
12:35 am Pt up to drink a cup of coffee.
12:45 am Pt in bed resting.
  1:00 am Pt sleeping.
  1:30 am Pt awake. Pt sat up in bed a second and then laid back down. When asked if he wanted his sleeping capsule, Pt replied “I was asleep and I just woke up. I’ll go back to sleep without it.”
  1:45 am Corpsman saw doctor and asked about sleeping capsules for Pt. Doctor said to give them if he asks for them.
  1:50 am Corpsman went back in room and Pt was not in bed.

A man leaps out a 16th story window trying to hang himself, right after waking up, after drinking beverages and socializing before that – it all strikes several false notes. And why would Harrison immediately bother the doctor about sleeping pills when Forrestal (1) had just been asleep, (2) had just said he would go back to sleep without them?

The doctor referred to was in the adjoining room, called the “doctors’ room.” It was separated from Forrestal’s by a bathroom with a door on each side. According to the Willcutts Report testimony of that doctor, (Commander) Robert Reynolds Deen, question 15, Harrison did not merely see him, he woke him up. And what Harrison said was less than consistent with what he wrote in his notes. Here is Dr. Deen:

“... the corpsman, Harrison, came in, awakened me and said that Mister Forrestal still was not sleeping, what should he do about it. I said something like this – that Mister Forrestal knew that he should take his pills if he were unable to sleep without them and that the corpsman should again remind him that the pills were there and that he should take them if he felt he couldn't go to sleep by himself. ... I think it was about one thirty-five or something like that when the corpsman came and talked to me. I went back to sleep again because the next thing I recall was Miss Harty [Hardy] coming into the room ...”

Dr. Deen’s reply to Harrison was obvious and predictable. Why would even a rookie go to the trouble of waking him up over a triviality? A rookie indeed, perhaps, but the question could have been an excuse either to leave Forrestal alone for a minute or to appear to have left him alone after he was gone.

According to the Willcutts Report testimony of Dr. Deen (again question 15) he had earlier closed and locked his bathroom door. Harrison would have had to enter the doctors’ room through the galley.

According to the Willcutts Report testimony of nurse Dorothy Turner she was on the eighth floor about this time. She happened to look at the clock when it was almost 1:44 am. (The hospital clocks were probably synchronized, though we are not certain.) A minute later she heard a “double thud.” The time Harrison wrote in the Notes for seeing Dr. Deen, having – he says – just left Forrestal in bed, is the same time as that, 1:45, so Harrison’s time is off – too late – by at least six minutes. (Whether Forrestal killed himself or someone else killed him, the act from bed to cord to out the window would have taken at minimum a substantial part of a minute.) The Nurse’s Notes times are written with a five minute precision so Harrison’s time skirts fabrication. Dr. Deen’s recollection of “about one thirty-five or something like that” is too uncertain to prove anything but 1:35 is closer to the true time than what Harrison wrote.

The point is that contrary to Harrison’s Notes and testimony he was probably not in the Doctor’s room when Forrestal went out the galley window, and in that case he must have seen Forrestal leave his bed.

-oOo-

The end of the Notes, quoted above, give the lie to the claim that Forrestal was copying a poem, or writing anything at all, right before he died.

-oOo-

Forrestal underwent, and at the higher dosages suffered through, nineteen consecutive days of so-called insulin therapy, from April 9 to 28 except for a respite on April 17, then after a respite of three days, another five consecutive days from May 2 to May 6. On May 6 Forrestal, after an almost complete mental breakdown, may have finally realized that these “treatments” were in fact a degradation. In any case May 6 saw the last of the so-called insulin therapy.

Thus according to the Nurse’s Notes these barbaric treatments took place from April 9 to May 6 for a total of 24 treatments in 28 days. The dose varied as follows (a question mark means that the page for that injection is missing, a blank means no treatment was given that day):

20 20 ? 35 40 ? 45 50 –– 50 55 60 60 60 60 60 55 55 60 55 –– –– –– 40 35 35 35 35

During the one and three day respites in the middle of the insulin therapy Forrestal was given no insulin injections. Both before and after the insulin therapy, that is, before April 9 and after May 6, he was given a so-called “stimulating” dose of 10 units of insulin each day.

-oOo-

Prise clearly spells his name “Prise” in the Notes and elsewhere. As we elaborate in our introduction to the Willcutts Report in the section “Obscured Witness,” the body of the report consistently misspells his name “Price.” The first time in the Notes that the temporary relief watch W. M. Water refers to Prise he misspells it “Price” but after that spells it correctly.

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On May 16 Breon notes that during lunch Forrestal craved salt. He “salted food with almost every bite. Couldn’t get enough from shaker top so he took it off and poured the salt on.” A craving for salt is caused by a low sodium level, which in turn could have been caused by the heavy perspiring during the worst of the earlier insulin treatments. Whatever the cause, sodium deficiency is a very serious condition. Forrestal seems to have gotten over it though because salt is not mentioned again.

-oOo-

The Notes begin April 2 at 0430 but Forrestal was not formally admitted, per the Admission Notice (exhibit 3 item 1) until 1645, suggesting a hasty admission, paperwork postponed.

-oOo-

At times you get the impression the nurse corpsman is writing something just for something to write.

-oOo-

On April 30 and again on May 9 and 16 Forrestal complains about a strange smell in the room, an “etherish odor.” None of the staff seem to notice it. There are two possibilities: (1) One consequence of an assault on the central nervous system can be imagined odors, so the smell may have been imaginary. (2) Perhaps Forrestal was, or had become, more sensitive to odors, and smelled something the hospital personnel could not or were used to.

Earlier, April 17, Forrestal had asked that some flowers be taken out, saying (quoting the watch’s account) “they were ‘too strong’ for him.”

-oOo-

By mid May, into his seventh week, Forrestal has become concerned that his conversations with Dr. Raines might not be private. Here is the account of Prise, five days before Forrestal disappeared:

Monday,
... May 16th
4:40 pm
... ... E. W. Prise ..............................................................................
6:50 pm Pt sitting in doctors’ room. Appears to be thinking about something.
7:25 pm Pt asked corpsman “Have you and Breon been taking down the conversations between me and Dr. Raines?” When I [the corpsman] told him we weren’t, he demanded to talk to Dr. Raines. Corpsman was unable to talk him out of it. Pt then shown to telephone booth and allowed to call.

After calling doctor, Pt called corpsman into room and said “Prise, can you assure me on your honor that there is no apparatus here that can take down our conversations?” Nothing I told him would change his opinion.
...
7:55 pm ... Pt sitting in bed, still questioning corpsman.
8:30 pm Pt has been very quiet.

We cannot know what made Forrestal concerned at this particular point about the privacy of his conversations. Whatever it was, his concern would have been reasonable had he told Raines anything he wouldn’t want made public. Raines’ character might have become apparent to Forrestal by this time. The man was dishonest before the Willcutts board. He testified that Forrestal’s friends were allowed to visit when in fact several close friends were turned away, as was even his brother until he threatened legal action. And Raines lied about Forrestal’s handwriting, see our introduction to the Willcutts Report, the section “The World Outside the Report.”

If Forrestal’s conversations were being recorded, neither Raines nor the watch need have been privy to it. Note the temporary change of room from 1618 to 1615 on April 5th – ample opportunity to plant a listening device.

-oOo-

On April 24, after 14 “insulin treatments,” Forrestal complained about the taste of the food given him the previous evening. Here is the note of corpsman Prise:

7:35 am Pt talked to Dr. Deen. When doctor told him he had a poor night because he did not take his sleeping pill, Pt said “They put it in my food last night.” Nothing the doctor said would change Pt’s mind about this. Pt also stated “The reason I know it was there, is because I could taste it.”

There are several possibilities. The strange taste (or perhaps smell, which can affect taste) could have been a consequence of the insulin therapy. Perhaps the food did indeed taste bad, but because it had been poorly prepared. Finally, perhaps Forrestal was right and it contained sodium amytal, which has a slightly bitter taste.

If sodium amytal had been placed in Forrestal’s dinner, the doctor or corpsman need not have known about it.

In any case, this is the only time Forrestal complained about anything being put in his food.

For what it’s worth, in those years sodium amytal (amobarbital) in high dosage was thought to be a “truth serum.”

-oOo-

One can only speculate about the contents of the missing pages, why they were left out, and when – that is, missing in the original or merely from the photocopy provided by the Navy per the FOIA request.

The notes covering Forrestal’s reaction to the 2nd day of insulin therapy, and the entire 6th day of insulin therapy, are missing. One possibility is that Forrestal had a severe reaction and the board did not want it known.

Another possibility, both for these and other missing notes, is that the board wanted to obscure some visitors Forrestal had during those times.

Then of course the missing pages might be a consequence of the bungling that government functionaries are known for. On the other hand, bungling can be a convenient excuse.

The original notes were obviously kept in a binder, so there is no good excuse for any of them disappearing.

-oOo-

In Dr. Hightower’s testimony before the Willcutts board, question 14, he says regarding Forrestal: “I saw him again Saturday morning [May 21] at which time an old friend of his from New York came down to visit, a Mister Strieffler.” That would be Paul Streiffler, Forrestal’s financial manager and close friend. Yet in the Notes for May 21 neither Hightower nor Strieffler are mentioned. The Notes are continuous and complete during this period so their thoroughness is only apparent. (Dr. Hightower might have been taken for granted because he was the doctor on call in the doctors’ room the night before.)

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See the section “Missing Witnesses” in our introduction to the Willcutts Report. Why were Breon, Kipp, Kelley, and especially Stuthers, the man replaced by Harrison, not called to testify before the board? As with the missing notes, one can only speculate. Perhaps they were uncooperative, weren’t with the he-committed-suicide program.

According to Connie Riggs, a nurse stationed at Quantico at the time of Forrestal’s death who knew some of the non-corpsmen nurses stationed at Bethesda, none of those nurses believed the suicide story.

Why Suicide
There is only one reason to think that Forrestal committed suicide. The contrary, that Forrestal was murdered, is bizarre. That is the only reason, and considering that Forrestal had powerful enemies, not a very good one.

Once someone is labeled “suicidal” the stigma has a force of its own.

Why Murder
Suicide is at least as bizzare as murder.

Per an observation of Medford Evans: Men hang themselves or they jump out sixteenth-story windows, but they don’t hang themselves out sixteenth-story windows.

Men don’t sleep for half an hour, wake up, and immediately kill themselves.

Civilized men leave a suicide note. Forrestal had friends and a family, yet there was no suicide note, no statement, nothing.

Calling part of a Greek play copied by some anonymous person months or years before, of unrevealed provenance, Forrestal’s, then calling this shabby thing his substitute for a suicide note, is a candidate for the most brazen fraud of the century. There is no question, not the slightest, that this is part of a cover-up. And what is there to cover up?

Per the research of Cornell Simpson: The day of his death Forrestal had an appointment with his brother to leave the hospital and complete his convalescence in more congenial surroundings.

Per the Nurse’s Notes, and despite the insufferably pompous Dr. (psychiatrist) Raines’ “double wave-like” claptrap testimony before the Willcutts board, Forrestal never acted suicidal or clinically depressed. Even under the waves of neurological assaults caused by artificially induced insulin shock he was never suicidal or clinically depressed.

Per the research of David Martin: Two days before Forrestal was taken to Bethesda, Stuart Symington, Secretary of the Air Force, communicated to Forrestal – judging from his reaction – a threat of an extreme nature.

Forrestal was, and had good reason to be, suspicious, and suspicion is a consequence of self-preservation, not self-destruction. Even if one were to believe that Forrestal was paranoid – irrationally suspicious – paranoids do not kill themselves, they are afraid others might.

Who Did It
One can only conjecture who was behind the assassination of James Forrestal. Considering that he had been an outspoken critic of both the Soviet Union and Israel, and had let it be known that he planned to start a newspaper where his views could be presented, the governments of those two countries are prime suspects.

The Israelis (including the pro-Israelis before 1948) have a long history of assassinating people who they see as standing in their way. (See This Is Our Ally?, especially Attempted Assassination of President Truman, and the book Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman *) On the other hand, Soviet assassination victims were confined to ex-Soviets, e.g. Leon Trotsky. Furthermore, unlike Soviets, Israelis could easily move within the U.S. All things considered, the perpetrators were likely Israeli agents. That might also account for the faux nature of the Navy’s investigation.

* See the book review:

“Review: ‘Rise and Kill First’ ”
by Brett Redmayne-Titley
The Unz Review June 26, 2019
unz.com/article/review-rise-and-kill-first

Coramine	–	trade name of nikethamide, it acts as a stimulant. Used to treat low blood pressure.
Dextrose	–	the kind of sugar the body uses, the right-hand isomer of glucose.
Liver extract	–	an iron supplement used to treat anemia and consequent fatigue.
Metamucil	–	trade name fiber supplement and stool softener.
Phenobarbital	–	acts as a sedative. It can be used to ease withdrawal from another barbiturate, such as sodium amytal (amobartital).
Phospho soda	–	trade name laxative which acts by drawing water to the lower bowel from the rest of the body.
Sodium amytal	–	also called amobarbital, it acts as a sedative. Can cause confusion on awakening. Odorless and a slightly bitter taste. An overdose causes sleeplessness and severe confusion. Once thought to be a “truth serum” when given in large doses.
Sodium phosphate	–	one of the two principal ingredients of Phospho soda, see above, and having the same effect.
Thiamin	–	vitamin B₁. Used to treat fatigue caused by thiamin deficiency.

First shift	0800 – 1600	8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Second shift	1600 – 2400	4:00 pm – midnight
Third shift	2400 – 0800	midnight – 8:00 am

W. R. Breon	52 shifts throughout Forrestal’s stay.
R. W. Harrison	1 shift and part of a second at the end.
J. M. Kelley	31 shifts during the first three fifths of Forrestal’s stay.
Iver P. Kipp	3 shifts near the beginning.
E. W. Prise	46 shifts throughout Forrestal’s stay.
C. F. Stuthers	17 shifts near the end, replaced by Harrison at the end.

J. C. Woods	once, lunch April 4.
W. M. Water	five times, lunch April 7, 9, 11, 12, 13.
C. L. M.	once, about an hour at start of first watch April 30.

Saturday, ...	May 21st
4:50 pm ...	... E. W. Prise ..............................................................................
5:15 pm	Pt visited by son.
5:30 pm	Pt finished dinner. Ate very good.
6:00 pm	Pt sitting in chair reading.
7:45 pm	Pt visited by Dr. Deen.
8:00 pm	Dr. Deen left. Pt in very good mood.
9:00 pm	Pt refused evening feeding.
...
9:20 pm	... Pt did not take Na amytal. States “I don’t think I want them at all.” “I can sleep without them.”
10:00 pm	Pt has been pacing room constantly for past 50 minutes.
11:00 pm	Pt has been pacing floor for one hour and 50 minutes now. Refuses Na amytal.
11:45 pm	... R. W. Harrison ..............................................................................
Sunday,	May 22nd
12:00 am	Pt still pacing floor.
12:05 am	Pt asked if he would receive any medications tonight. Corpsman told him that there was none except his Na amytal. Pt said “Thank you”, but refused amytal.
12:15 am	Pt in bed. Pt said he was going to get some rest now.
12:20 am	Pt asked for a half glass of orange juice. Pt got up to drink orange juice.
12:25 am	Pt in bed resting.
12:35 am	Pt up to drink a cup of coffee.
12:45 am	Pt in bed resting.
1:00 am	Pt sleeping.
1:30 am	Pt awake. Pt sat up in bed a second and then laid back down. When asked if he wanted his sleeping capsule, Pt replied “I was asleep and I just woke up. I’ll go back to sleep without it.”
1:45 am	Corpsman saw doctor and asked about sleeping capsules for Pt. Doctor said to give them if he asks for them.
1:50 am	Corpsman went back in room and Pt was not in bed.

Monday, ...	May 16th
4:40 pm ...	... E. W. Prise ..............................................................................
6:50 pm	Pt sitting in doctors’ room. Appears to be thinking about something.
7:25 pm	Pt asked corpsman “Have you and Breon been taking down the conversations between me and Dr. Raines?” When I [the corpsman] told him we weren’t, he demanded to talk to Dr. Raines. Corpsman was unable to talk him out of it. Pt then shown to telephone booth and allowed to call. After calling doctor, Pt called corpsman into room and said “Prise, can you assure me on your honor that there is no apparatus here that can take down our conversations?” Nothing I told him would change his opinion.
...
7:55 pm	... Pt sitting in bed, still questioning corpsman.
8:30 pm	Pt has been very quiet.