Sahachiro Hata
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Sahachiro Hata (秦佐八郎?); (23 March 1873 – 22 November 1938) is a Japanese physician who developed the Arsphenamine drug in 1908 in the laboratory of Paul Ehrlich.
Hata was born in Shimane Prefecture, and completed his medical education in Kyoto. He studied epidemic diseases under the famous Dr Kitasato Shibasaburo at Kitasato’s Institute for the Study of Infectious Diseases in Tokyo, and later studied immunology at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin. While in Germany, he took the opportunity to learn about chemotherapy at the German National Institute for Experimental Therapeutics in Frankfurt, where he assisted Paul Ehrlich in the discovery of arsphenamine, which proved effective in curing syphilis.
After his return to Japan, he helped found the Kitasato Institute, of which he became a director. He also lectured at Keio University.
[edit] References
- Low, Morris. Building a Modern Japan: Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Meiji Era and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan (2005). ISBN 1-4039-6832-2
- Porter, Roy. Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine. W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (June 2004). ISBN 0-393-32569-5
- Waller, John. The Discovery of the Germ: Twenty Years That Transformed the Way We Think About Disease (Revolutions in Science). Columbia University Press (2003), ISBN 0-231-13150-X
[edit] External link
- Hata Sahachiro Memorial Museum, Shimane (Japanese site)
