Native name 橋本 策 Nationality Japanese Name Hakaru Hashimoto | Cause of death Typhoid fever Occupation Physician Role Medical Doctor | |
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Died January 9, 1934, Mie Prefecture, Japan | ||
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Hakaru Hashimoto (橋本 策, Hashimoto Hakaru, May 5, 1881 – January 9, 1934) was a Japanese medical scientist of the Meiji and Taisho periods.
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Biography
He was born on May 5, 1881, in the village of Midau, Nishitsuge, in Mie Prefecture. He graduated from Kyushu University medical school in 1907. He then entered the First Surgical Bureau and studied medicine under the direction of Professor Hayari Miyake (1867–1945), the first Japanese neurosurgeon. Some years after, he studied pathology under Professor Eduard Kaufmann at the Georg-August University of Gottingen. He also studied in England. As World War I was about to break out, he was forced to return home to Japan. In 1916, he came back to his hometown, Igamachi, and became the town doctor. He fell ill with typhoid fever and died at home on January 9, 1934.
Scientific activities
In 1912, he published a paper, Kojosen rinpa-setsu shusho-teki henka ni kansuru kenkyu hokoku or Zur Kenntnis der lymphomatosen Veranderung der Schilddruse (Struma lymphomatosa) or (Report on lymphomatous goiter) in "Archiv fur klinische Chirurgie", Berlin, 1912:97:219-248.
Years later, this paper was evaluated by English and American researchers, and the disease it described was recognized as an independent illness.
In American medical books, it was named Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
Hashimoto Street
To honor his achievements, Kyushu University named a road on its Maidashi campus "Hashimoto Street".