I've been observing cases of Moonlight Syndrome at Haibara Infirmary.
The moment I first laid eyes on one of the patients, a ghastly thrill travelled up and down my spine. This syndrome is unlike anything I've ever seen before, and in this line of work I've seen more than my fair share of unusual and disturbing things.
Moonlight Syndrome presents symptoms of memory fragmentation along with deterioration of sense of self, resulting in destruction of the sufferer's personality. In advanced stages, it leads to total amnesia and unresponsiveness, and is ultimately fatal, but apparently most patients choose to end their own lives before the symptoms can progress to those final, awful stages.
Watching as these poor bastards have their memories taken away from them, as they break down and are consumed little by little... It's so horrible, one trembles at the sight.
I wouldn't wish Moonlight Syndrome on my worst enemy. No one should have to feel themselves slip away into the darkness...
Seeing it for myself, I have a renewed sense of urgency regarding my work here. Dr. Haibara is treating Moonlight Syndrome as a special kind of local endemic disease, but he hasn't yet been able to grasp the nature of the condition or develop a reliable method of treatment or cure.
His focus is on medication combined with surgical procedures and folk medicine as a means to combat this condition.
I'll learn more details about the different kinds of treatment tomorrow. I just hope one of them can be developed into a cure, and we can finally wake these people from their nightmare.
Haibara's Assistant's Notes (2)
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| Kanji | 助手の手記 二 じょしゅのしゅき に |
| Game | Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse |
| Author | Shoji Katagiri |
| Chapter | Phase III: Lost Day |
| Located at | Haibara Infirmary, Reference Room |
| Obtained | On the desk |
| Description | Talks about Moonlight Syndrome. |
| Additional Description | There's a notebook on the desk. |
| Related Notes | Haibara's Assistant's Notes (1), Haibara's Assistant's Notes (3), Haibara's Assistant's Notes (4), Haibara's Assistant's Notes (5), Haibara's Assistant's Notes (6) & Haibara's Assistant's Notes (7) |
灰原病院にて実際に
月幽病患者の症例を観察する。
初めて月幽病の患者を目の当たりにし、
この病気に、何か得体の
しれない感触を覚えた。
月幽病は、
記憶の欠如とともに自己の認識が
崩れていき、人格が崩壊する。
最終的には一切の記憶がなくなるのか、
何も反応しなくなり、死に至る。
そこまで病状が進むまでに、
ほとんどの患者が
何らかの方法で自ら死を選ぶ。
患者が次第に壊れ、
この病気に飲まれていく様は
あまりに凄まじく、
見ていて体が震える。
灰原先生ご自身も、
月幽病を風土病的な
特殊疾患として考えておられるが、
その正体は掴んでおらず
治療法に決定打は無い。
先生は、投薬を中心に
外科手術や民間療法も取り入れ、
さまざまな治療法で
この病気に立ち向かっている。
明日から治療法の種類について
詳しく学ぼうと思う。