Doctor of Medicine - Doctor of Medicine

…He was the Army Medical Superintendent (later the Army First Class Chief Surgeon) and the Third Class Court Physician (later the Chief of the Court Physician Bureau). After serving as the head of Tokyo Medical School, he became the first director of Tokyo Medical University in 1877, and in 1888 he became the first person in Japan to receive a doctorate in medicine. In 1898 he was made a baron and in 1902 he became an Imperial Court advisor. …

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…陸軍軍医監(のち陸軍一等軍医正)，三等侍医(のち侍医局長)。東京医学校長を経て77年初代東京医科大学綜理，88年日本最初の医学博士号を受ける。98年男爵，1902年宮中顧問官。…

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