Poems in Eikô, Issue 225
September 9, 1953

         
  人間が 作りし医もて人間を 救はんとするナンセンスかも
270  

What nonsense it is
Using the medical science
Created by human beings
To try to save
Human beings.

S6-239C.
Alternate translation
What nonsense it is for / Human beings to try to / Save other human beings
With the medical science / They themselves have created.
         
    ひもすがら 天井見つめ病の 身を横たへる人つくる医術
271   Medical science
Makes people who lie
With diseased condition in bed
Gazing at the ceiling
All day long.
S6-363A. 
         
   

科学もて 病が治るものならば 世に病む人はあらじと思ふ

272   If medical science were
Something that could cure disease
I think there would not
Be any sick people
In the world. 
S6-363B.
Alternate translation
If material science were / Curing diseases, / I think there / Would be no sick / People in the world.