_19 November._ The mixture was applied to a 2 sq. cm. of skin and
ignited 30 seconds later. After 45 seconds the fire was extinguished
with a damp cloth and the burned spot washed off with water. A burn of
parchment-like, dry, greenish-brownish appearance appeared. The wound
was treated with _echinacine_ ointment. On 3 December it was clean, dry,
and without necrosis. On 5 December the epithelization began, which then
made rapid strides, so that on 23 December the wound, in contrast to the
treatment with a 10-percent solution of cod-liver oil, was considerably
smaller. On 29 December it was not yet healed over, but was only half as
large as the wound treated with a 10-percent solution of cod-liver oil.
PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF MRUGOWSKY
DOCUMENT 115
MRUGOWSKY DEFENSE EXHIBIT 108
EXTRACTS FROM THE AFFIDAVIT OF UDO VON WOYRSCH, 3 MAY 1947, CONCERNING
EXPERIMENTS ON COMBATING INJURIES DUE TO PHOSPHORUS INCENDIARY BOMBS
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From 20 April 1940 to 12 February 1947 I was Higher SS and Police Leader
in Military District IV and main district leader [Oberabschnittsfuehrer]
in Dresden. In this capacity I was responsible for measures
counteracting the damage caused by the air war. I knew Dr. Hans Madaus,
co-partner of the firm Dr. Madaus & Co., in Dresden. He told me that
experiments on the combating of injuries caused by phosphorus incendiary
bombs were being carried on in his laboratory with rabbits. On the
occasion of an inspection of the whole pharmaceutical lay-out of the
firm, I inspected, at his suggestion, in particular numerous hothouses
and also the above-mentioned experiments. As far as I remember I
inspected the experiments once again at a later date—at that time I
called in Dr. Kirchert as medical expert, who was the physician of the
Higher SS and Police Leader.
The experiments seemed to me to be so successful that I reported about
them to Reich Physician SS and Police Dr. Grawitz; that is, I called his
attention to these experiments on the combating of injuries caused by
phosphorus incendiary bombs, which in my opinion were particularly
successful.
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I do not remember Dr. Ding, who, as I have learned only now, is supposed
to have carried on experiments in Buchenwald with the preparation of the
Madaus firm. It is possible that when visiting Dresden he paid a brief
visit to me with Kirchert. But I do not recall such a visit.
I want to emphasize that the experiments at the Madaus firm made a big
impression upon me, because I saw that the rabbits used in those
experiments were treated very well. The content of the phosphorus
incendiary bombs which was rubbed onto their skins and then wiped off
with preparation R 17 did not seem to cause any kind of pain to the
animals, because after they were returned to their cage, immediately
after the experiments, they immediately ate again and did not show any
signs of discomfort.
Professor Dr. Joachim Mrugowsky is personally known to me. He was not
mentioned in any way nor did he participate in the matter of incendiary
bombs. Since I know him, I would certainly remember if he had
participated in any way at all or if his name had been mentioned.
Dr. Helmut Poppendick has also never been mentioned in any way in
connection with this matter.
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