Japan · Garrison-Morton-Norman

Year	Title & Tags	Author(s)
1683	Dissertatio de arthritide: mantissa schematica: de acupunctura: et orationes tres… Traditional & Indigenous Asia & Pacific Alternative & Fringe Medicine	TEN RHIJNE, Willem (1647 – 1700)
1712	Amoentitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V. Traditional & Indigenous Asia & Pacific Alternative & Fringe Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics	KAEMPFER, Engelbert (1651 – 1716)
1774	Kaitai Shinsho (解体新書 Kyūjitai: 解體新書,(Anatomical Tables). A translation of Johan Adam Kulmus's Ontleedkundige Tafelen by Sugita Genpaku. Traditional & Indigenous Asia & Pacific Anatomy & Pathology	KULMUS, Johann Adam (1689 – 1745) SUGITA, Genpaku (杉田玄白) (1733 – 1817)
1791	Icones selectæ plantarum, quas in Japonia collegit et delineavit; Engelbertus Kaempfer; ex archetypis in Museo Britannico asservatis. Edited by Sir Joseph Banks. Asia & Pacific Pharmacology & Therapeutics	KAEMPFER, Engelbert (1651 – 1716) BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820)
1878–1883	Les produits de la nature japonaise et chinoise: comprenant la dénomination, l'histoire et les applications aux arts, à l'industrie, à l'économie, à la médecine, etc. des substances qui dérivent des trois règnes de la nature et qui sont employées par les Japonais et les Chinois / Partie inorganique et minéralogique, contenant la description des minéraux et des substances qui dérivent du règne minéral. Traditional & Indigenous Asia & Pacific General Clinical Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics	GEERTS, Antonius Johannes Cornelius (1843 – 1883)
1879	Das japanische Fluss- oder Ueberschwemmings-fieber, eine acute Infectionskrankheit. Asia & Pacific Microbiology & Virology	BÄLZ, Erwin Otto Eduard von (1849 – 1933) KAWAKAMI
1880–1884	Kakke (Beriberi). Asia & Pacific Public Health	BÄLZ, Erwin Otto Eduard von (1849 – 1933)
1885	On the cause and prevention of kakke. Asia & Pacific Public Health	KANEHIRO, Takaki (1849 – 1915)
1885	Notes on the history of medical progress in Japan. Traditional & Indigenous Asia & Pacific	WHITNEY, Willis Norton (1855 – 1918)
1900	The surgical history of the naval war between Japan & China during 1894-95. Translated from the original Japanese report under the supervision of Baron Y. Saneyoshi by S. Suzuki. Asia & Pacific Military Medicine	YASUZUMI, Saneyoshi (1848 – 1932)
1904	The aetiology of a parasitic disease (in Japanese) Asia & Pacific Microbiology & Virology	KATSURADA, Fujiro (1867 – 1946)
1907	Ueber den Wohnort von Schistosomum japonicum. [Japanese text.] Asia & Pacific Microbiology & Virology	FUJINAMI, Akira (1870 – 1934) NAKAMURA, Hachitaro
1907	Enseignements médicaux de la Guerre Russo-Japonaise. Avec cartes, plans, croquis, schémas et photographies de l'auteur. Asia & Pacific Military Medicine	MATIGNON, Jean-Jacques (1866 – 1928)
1909	Die Sehstörungen bei Schussverletzungen der kortikalen Sehsphäre, nach Beobachtungen an Verwundeten der letzten japanischen Kriege. Asia & Pacific Ophthalmology & Vision	INOUYE, Tatsuji (1880 – 1976)
1909	The Russo-Japanese war: Medical and sanitary reports from officers attached to the Japanese and Russian forces in the field, General staff, War office, April 1908. Asia & Pacific Military Medicine	MACPHERSON, William Grant (1958 – 1927)
1911	Geschichte der Medizin in Japan. Traditional & Indigenous Asia & Pacific	FUJIKAWA, Yū (1865 – 1940)
1912	Salvarsantherapie der Rattenbisskrankheit in Japan. Asia & Pacific Microbiology & Virology Pharmacology & Therapeutics	HATA, Sahachiro (1873 – 1938)
1914	Der Zwischenwirt des Schistosomum japonicum Katsurada. Asia & Pacific Microbiology & Virology	MIYAIRI, Keinosuke (1865 – 1946) SUZUKI, Masatsugu
1919	On the value of a skin reaction to a suspension of leprous nodules. Asia & Pacific Plagues & Epidemics Diagnostics & Imaging	MITSUDA, Kensuke (1876 – 1964)
1921	On the life cycle of Fasciolopsis buski Lankester. Asia & Pacific Microbiology & Virology	NAKAGAWA, Koan (1874 – 1959)
1923	Beiträge zur Geschichte der Syphilis: insbesondere über ihren Ursprung und ihre Pathologie in Ostasien. Asia & Pacific Plagues & Epidemics	DOHI, Keizo (1866 – 1931)
1928	Ueber die Encephalitis epidemica in Japan. Asia & Pacific Plagues & Epidemics	KANEKO, Renjiro (1886 – ) AOKI, Y
1928	Das Arteriensystem der Japaner von Dr. Buntaro Adachi unter Mitwirkung von Dr. Kotondo Hasebe ... mit 539 Abbildungen im Text und auf vier farbigen Tafeln sowie mit etwa 700 Tabellen. Modern Asia & Pacific Anatomy & Pathology Professions & Education	ADACHI, Buntarō (1865 – 1945) HASEBE, Kotondo (1882 – 1969)
1930	Ueber Identität von “Yato-Byo” (Ohara’s disease) und “Tularämie”, sowie ihren Erreger. Asia & Pacific Plagues & Epidemics	OHARA, Hachiro
1930	Erwin Bälz: Das Leben eines deutschen Arztes im erwachenden Japan. Tagebücher, Briefe, Berichte hrsg. von Toku Bälz. Traditional & Indigenous Asia & Pacific Professions & Education	BÄLZ, Erwin (1849 – 1914) BÄLZ, Erwin Toku (1889 – )
1934	Übertragung des Virus von Encephalitis epidemica auf Affen. Asia & Pacific Plagues & Epidemics	HAYASHI, Michitomo
1936	A virus isolated in 1935 epidemic of summer encephalitis in Japan. Asia & Pacific Microbiology & Virology	TANIGUCHI, Tenji (1889 – 1961) & et al.
1952	Incidence of leukemia in survivors of the atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Asia & Pacific Oncology & Cancer Pharmacology & Therapeutics	FOLLEY, J. H. BORGES, T. YAMASAKI, T.
1953	Newborn virus pneumonitis (type Sendai). II. The isolation of a new virus possessing hemagglutinin activity. Asia & Pacific Microbiology & Virology	KUROYA, Masahiko (1921 – 1976)
1967	In Japanese: [Acute febrile mucocutaneous syndrome with lymphoid involvement with specific desquamation of the fingers and toes in children.] Asia & Pacific Plagues & Epidemics	KAWASAKI, Tomisaku (1925 – )
1968	Carcinogenesis in atomic bomb survivors. Technical report 24-68. Atomic Bomb Casuality Commission. Asia & Pacific Pharmacology & Therapeutics	MAKI, Hiroshi ISHIMARU, Toranosuke KATO, Hiroo WAKABAYASHI, Toshiro
1970	Western medical pioneers in feudal Japan. Traditional & Indigenous Asia & Pacific	BOWERS, John Zimmerman (1913 – 1993)
1972	Temples of the muses and a history of pharmacy museums. Asia & Pacific Pharmacology & Therapeutics Hospitals & Institutions	HAMARNEH, Sami Khalaf (1925 – 2010)
1974	La médecine japonaise des origines à nos jours. Traditional & Indigenous Asia & Pacific	HUARD, Pierre Alphonse (1901 – 1983) WONG, Ming (1926 – 1989)
1974	A new infantile acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) prevailing in Japan. Asia & Pacific Plagues & Epidemics	KAWASAKI, Tomisaku (1925 – ) KOSAKI, Fumio OKAWA, Sumio & et al.
1974	Myocardial infarction due to coronary thromboarteritis following acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) in an infant. Asia & Pacific Plagues & Epidemics	KOBAYASHI, Noboru (1927 – 2019) MATSUYA, Shoji YANAGISAWA, Masayoshi
1980	Manners and customs of dentistry in Ukiyoe Asia & Pacific Dentistry Professions & Education Zoology & Animal Sciences	NAKAHARA, Sen & et al.
1980	When the twain meet. The rise of western medicine in Japan. Traditional & Indigenous Asia & Pacific	BOWERS, John Zimmerman (1913 – 1993)
1991	Four Dutch pharmacists in Japan 1869-1885. Traditional & Indigenous Asia & Pacific Pharmacology & Therapeutics	VERBURGT, J. W.
1991	Red-hair medicine: Dutch-Japanese medical relations. Traditional & Indigenous Asia & Pacific	BEUKERS, Harm LUYENDIJK-ELSHOUT, A. M.
1995	Effects of atomic radiation: A half-century of studies from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Asia & Pacific Pharmacology & Therapeutics	SCHULL, William Jackson (1922 – 2017)
1998	The Medical Department: Medical service in the war against Japan. United States Army in World War II: The technical services. Asia & Pacific Military Medicine	COWDREY, Albert E. CONDON-RALL, Mary Ellen (1938 – )
2001	Long night's journey into day: Prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945. Asia & Pacific Military Medicine Historiography & General Works	ROLAND, Charles Gordon (1933 – 2009)
2004	The history of ophthalmology in Japan. Asia & Pacific Ophthalmology & Vision	MISHIMA, Saichi & et al.
2011	Toxic archipelago: A history of industrial disease in Japan. Asia & Pacific Public Health Historiography & General Works	WALKER, Brett L. (1967 – )
2011	The Japanese pharmaceutical industry: Its evolution and current challenges. Asia & Pacific Pharmacology & Therapeutics	UMEMURA, Maki
2014	Doctors of empire: Medical and cultural encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan Asia & Pacific	KIM, Hoi-Eun (1976 – )
2015	The influenza pandemic in Japan, 1918-1920: The first world war between humankind and a virus. Translation by Lynne E. Riggs and Takechi Manbu. Asia & Pacific Epidemiology & Demography Historiography & General Works	AKIRA, Hayami (1929 – )
2018	Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945. Traditional & Indigenous Asia & Pacific Obstetrics & Reproductive Women & Gender	TERAZAWA, Yuki

1683 TEN RHIJNE, Willem (1647 – 1700)

Dissertatio de arthritide: mantissa schematica: de acupunctura: et orationes tres…

This work by the resident physician at Deshima, the Dutch East India Company’s trading station in Nagasaki Bay, Japan, contains the first detailed description of acupuncture, and the first illustration of acu-points p…

GMN 6374.1 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8316

1712 KAEMPFER, Engelbert (1651 – 1716)

Amoentitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V.

Kaempfer’s illustrated accounts of Japanese acupuncture and moxibustion are among the best of the 17th century. They appeared for the first time in the above work and were translated into English in his The History of…

GMN 6374.11 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8317

1774 KULMUS, Johann Adam (1689 – 1745); SUGITA, Genpaku (杉田玄白) (1733 – 1817)

Kaitai Shinsho (解体新書 Kyūjitai: 解體新書,(Anatomical Tables). A translation of Johan Adam Kulmus's Ontleedkundige Tafelen by Sugita Genpaku.

The first translation of any Western medical text into Japanese. "Kaitai Shinsho represented the beginning of two epoch-making developments. First and most directly Gempaku's work set in motion the modern transformati…

GMN 6835 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8999

1791 KAEMPFER, Engelbert (1651 – 1716); BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820)

Icones selectæ plantarum, quas in Japonia collegit et delineavit; Engelbertus Kaempfer; ex archetypis in Museo Britannico asservatis. Edited by Sir Joseph Banks.

Sir Joseph Banks was responsible for publishing most of Kaempfer's studies of Japanese plants, which had remained unpublished for more than 70 years. This work introduced many Japanese plants to Western botanists. Dig…

GMN 12825 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15071

1878 –1883 GEERTS, Antonius Johannes Cornelius (1843 – 1883)

Les produits de la nature japonaise et chinoise: comprenant la dénomination, l'histoire et les applications aux arts, à l'industrie, à l'économie, à la médecine, etc. des substances qui dérivent des trois règnes de la nature et qui sont employées par les Japonais et les Chinois / Partie inorganique et minéralogique, contenant la description des minéraux et des substances qui dérivent du règne minéral.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 7515 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9687

1879 BÄLZ, Erwin Otto Eduard von (1849 – 1933); KAWAKAMI

Das japanische Fluss- oder Ueberschwemmings-fieber, eine acute Infectionskrankheit.

Early scientific account of tsutsugamushi fever.

GMN 5376.1 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7038

1880 –1884 BÄLZ, Erwin Otto Eduard von (1849 – 1933)

Kakke (Beriberi).

In his important account of beriberi, Baelz dealt with the Tokyo outbreak of 1881.

GMN 3739 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4537

1885 KANEHIRO, Takaki (1849 – 1915)

On the cause and prevention of kakke.

Takaki was the first conclusively to show the dietary origin of beriberi. Measures introduced by him resulted in its eradication from the Japanese Navy, where it had previously been a serious problem.

GMN 3740 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4541

1885 WHITNEY, Willis Norton (1855 – 1918)

Notes on the history of medical progress in Japan.

From Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan, 1885, 12, 245-469. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 6604 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8529

1900 YASUZUMI, Saneyoshi (1848 – 1932)

The surgical history of the naval war between Japan & China during 1894-95. Translated from the original Japanese report under the supervision of Baron Y. Saneyoshi by S. Suzuki.

Surgical history of the naval aspects of the First Sino-Japanese War. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 9421 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11604

1904 KATSURADA, Fujiro (1867 – 1946)

The aetiology of a parasitic disease (in Japanese)

First description of Schistosoma japonicum. Translation in Kean (No. 2368.1), p. 518.

GMN 5349.1 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6829

1907 FUJINAMI, Akira (1870 – 1934); NAKAMURA, Hachitaro

Ueber den Wohnort von Schistosomum japonicum. [Japanese text.]

Fujinami and Nakamura identified the intermediate host of S. japonicum. Abstract in Arch. Schiffs-u. Tropenhyg., 1908, 12,471. Later (1909, 6, 224-52) they demonstrated that infection occurred by skin penetration. Eng…

GMN 5350.1 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6841

1907 MATIGNON, Jean-Jacques (1866 – 1928)

Enseignements médicaux de la Guerre Russo-Japonaise. Avec cartes, plans, croquis, schémas et photographies de l'auteur.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 12815 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15061

1909 INOUYE, Tatsuji (1880 – 1976)

Die Sehstörungen bei Schussverletzungen der kortikalen Sehsphäre, nach Beobachtungen an Verwundeten der letzten japanischen Kriege.

During and after Japan’s war with Russia (1904-1905 ) Inouye tested the visual fields in wounded soldiers for insurance purposes, and set out his observations in this work. English translation: Glickstein, M. & Fahle,…

GMN 7397 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9569

1909 MACPHERSON, William Grant (1958 – 1927)

The Russo-Japanese war: Medical and sanitary reports from officers attached to the Japanese and Russian forces in the field, General staff, War office, April 1908.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 9444 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11627

1911 FUJIKAWA, Yū (1865 – 1940)

Geschichte der Medizin in Japan.

History of Japanese medicine from the earliest times to 1911. Expanded English translation, translated from the German by John Ruhrah, with a chapter on the recent history of medicine in Japan, by Kageyas W. Amano. Ne…

GMN 6604.1 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8530

1912 HATA, Sahachiro (1873 – 1938)

Salvarsantherapie der Rattenbisskrankheit in Japan.

Salvarsan first used in the treatment of rat-bite fever.

GMN 5324 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6624

1914 MIYAIRI, Keinosuke (1865 – 1946); SUZUKI, Masatsugu

Der Zwischenwirt des Schistosomum japonicum Katsurada.

Miyairi and Suzuki confirmed that snails are the intermediate hosts of S. japonicum, and their paper completed the description of the life cycle from ova to snail intermediate host. Translation in Kean (No. 2268.1), p…

GMN 5350.2 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6847

1919 MITSUDA, Kensuke (1876 – 1964)

On the value of a skin reaction to a suspension of leprous nodules.

Mitsuda (lepromin) reaction. English translation by the author in Int. J. Leprosy, 1953, 21, 347-58.

GMN 2440 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2914

1921 NAKAGAWA, Koan (1874 – 1959)

On the life cycle of Fasciolopsis buski Lankester.

GMN 5350.7 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6872

1923 DOHI, Keizo (1866 – 1931)

Beiträge zur Geschichte der Syphilis: insbesondere über ihren Ursprung und ihre Pathologie in Ostasien.

Gives, in an appendix, a list of writers on syphilis from 1495 to 1829. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

GMN 2426 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2884

1928 KANEKO, Renjiro (1886 – ); AOKI, Y

Ueber die Encephalitis epidemica in Japan.

Japanese encephalitis distinguished from encephalitis lethargica.

GMN 4654 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/760

1928 ADACHI, Buntarō (1865 – 1945); HASEBE, Kotondo (1882 – 1969)

Das Arteriensystem der Japaner von Dr. Buntaro Adachi unter Mitwirkung von Dr. Kotondo Hasebe ... mit 539 Abbildungen im Text und auf vier farbigen Tafeln sowie mit etwa 700 Tabellen.

GMN 9516 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11701

1930 OHARA, Hachiro

Ueber Identität von “Yato-Byo” (Ohara’s disease) und “Tularämie”, sowie ihren Erreger.

In Japan tularemia is known as “Ohara’s disease”.

GMN 5177 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6284

1930 BÄLZ, Erwin (1849 – 1914); BÄLZ, Erwin Toku (1889 – )

Erwin Bälz: Das Leben eines deutschen Arztes im erwachenden Japan. Tagebücher, Briefe, Berichte hrsg. von Toku Bälz.

Bälz was personal physician to the Japanese Imperial Family and cofounder of modern western medicine in Japan. "Bälz taught more than 800 students in Western medicine during his tenure at the Tokyo Imperial University…

GMN 9846 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12034

1934 HAYASHI, Michitomo

Übertragung des Virus von Encephalitis epidemica auf Affen.

Experimental transmission of Japanese B encephalitis.

GMN 4657 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/767

1936 TANIGUCHI, Tenji (1889 – 1961); ET AL

A virus isolated in 1935 epidemic of summer encephalitis in Japan.

T. Taniguchi, M. Hosokawa, and S. Kuga established a virus etiology for Japanese B encephalitis.

GMN 4659 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/774

1952 FOLLEY, J. H.; BORGES, T.; YAMASAKI, T.

Incidence of leukemia in survivors of the atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

Leukemia was the first cancer to be linked with radiation exposure in atomic bomb survivors.

GMN 7764 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9936

1953 KUROYA, Masahiko (1921 – 1976)

Newborn virus pneumonitis (type Sendai). II. The isolation of a new virus possessing hemagglutinin activity.

M. Kuroya, N. Ishida, and T. Shiratori isolated the first recognized Sendai (para-influenza) virus.

GMN 3215.3 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4374

1967 KAWASAKI, Tomisaku (1925 – )

In Japanese: [Acute febrile mucocutaneous syndrome with lymphoid involvement with specific desquamation of the fingers and toes in children.]

Kawasaki first reported this disease in 1961 in a four-year-old child with a rash and fever at the Red Cross Hospital in Tokyo; by the time he wrote this paper he had seen 50 cases. The mysterious novel illness was ev…

GMN 12716 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14962

1968 MAKI, Hiroshi; ISHIMARU, Toranosuke; KATO, Hiroo; WAKABAYASHI, Toshiro

Carcinogenesis in atomic bomb survivors. Technical report 24-68. Atomic Bomb Casuality Commission.

Published 23 years after the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, allowing for carcinogenesis after the latency period. Digital facsimile available from the Radiation Effects Research Foundation at this link.

GMN 7789 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9961

1970 BOWERS, John Zimmerman (1913 – 1993)

Western medical pioneers in feudal Japan.

Covers the influence of Western medicine on Japan from the seventeenth century through 1870.

GMN 6604.2 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8531

1972 HAMARNEH, Sami Khalaf (1925 – 2010)

Temples of the muses and a history of pharmacy museums.

Prepared for the opening in June 1971 of the Naito Museum of Pharmaceutical Science and Industry in Japan, and emphasizing that museum and museums in the Middle East.

GMN 13714 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15998

1974 HUARD, Pierre Alphonse (1901 – 1983); WONG, Ming (1926 – 1989)

La médecine japonaise des origines à nos jours.

With Z. Ohya.

GMN 6604.3 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8532

1974 KAWASAKI, Tomisaku (1925 – ); KOSAKI, Fumio; OKAWA, Sumio; ET AL

A new infantile acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) prevailing in Japan.

The first report on Kawasaki Disease in English. By 1973, 6,000 cases of Kawasaki disease were reported in Japan. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

GMN 12717 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14963

1974 KOBAYASHI, Noboru (1927 – 2019); MATSUYA, Shoji; YANAGISAWA, Masayoshi

Myocardial infarction due to coronary thromboarteritis following acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) in an infant.

The authors reported the case of a 6 month old baby who died from a myocardiac infarction after "recovering" from Kawasaki disease. Autopsy showed that the baby died from classical coronary artery thrombosis accompani…

GMN 12718 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14964

1980 NAKAHARA, Sen; ET AL

Manners and customs of dentistry in Ukiyoe

Reproduces all the classic Japanese prints that concern the teeth or dentistry. By Nakahara, Yoshihisa Shindo, and Kuninori Homma.

GMN 3705.2 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4446

1980 BOWERS, John Zimmerman (1913 – 1993)

When the twain meet. The rise of western medicine in Japan.

Suppl. to Bull. Hist. Med., new ser., 5.

GMN 6604.31 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8533

1991 VERBURGT, J. W.

Four Dutch pharmacists in Japan 1869-1885.

GMN 7514 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9686