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off blood supply in the blood vessels, which causes the tissue to not
receive oxygen and die)

Pancreas: Intense parenchymatous degeneration (cell swelling and

increase in cellular water leading to cell congestion and death),

bacterial masses in capillaries (congestion of blood vessels, causing

failure of blood ow)

Suprarenal Gland: Autolysis (self-digestion, destruction of cells from
their own enzymes).

yroid: Follicular collapse (collapse and loss of form of the thyroid,

ceasing deliver y of hormones)

Lymph-nodes: Lymphadenitis haemorrhagica totalis (in ammation of

the lymph nodes to the point of extreme bleeding from its entirety)
Skin: Phlegmons with cutaneous ulcers (mass in amed skin

accompanied by ulcers and skin sores, causing loss of upper skin layer)

Researching and understanding how germs work was important to Unit 731

since the rst division was engaged in breeding plague and cholera ger ms,
gas gangrene, anthrax, typhoid, paratyphoid fever, and other diseases for

their use in bacteriological warfare.