"Dr. Sasaki worked without method, taking those who were nearest him first, and he noticed soon theat the corridor seemed to be getting more and more crowded...Tugged here and there in his stockinged feet, bewildered by the numbers, staggered by so much raw flesh, Dr. Sasaki lost all sense of profession and stopped working as a skillful surgeon and a sympathatic man; he became an automaton, mechanically wiping, daubing, winding, wiping, daubing, winding," (25-26).