Editing Hideyo Noguchi (section)

=== Childhood accident ===
Noguchi was two years old when he was left with his deaf grandmother who had poor eyesight alongside his four year old sister, Inu, while his mother worked in the rice fields.<ref name=":37" />  He fell into an [[irori]] and suffered burns and developed an infection on his left hand. 

Since there were no doctor in Inawashiro, his left hand was unable to receive medical attention and remained useless as the upper joints of the fingers were gone, and the remaining joints had adhered to each other to form a solid clump. His thumb was drawn down to his wrist and had become attached to it.<ref name=":52" /> While Seisaku could no longer become a successful farmer. Shika promised to give her son an education.<ref name=":37" />