Shochu Sato

Japanese: 佐藤尚中 - さとう・しょうちゅう

Year of death: July 23, 1882 (Meiji 15)
Year of birth: April 4, 1827 (April 29, 1827)
A doctor from the late Edo period to the Meiji period. The second head of Juntendo (Juntendo University). His name is officially read as "Takanaka." He was the second son of Yamaguchi Hosen, a doctor in Omigawa Domain, Shimousa Province (Chiba Prefecture). At the age of 16, he went to Edo to study Confucianism under Terakado Seiken, and studied medicine under Ando Bunsaku, but at Ando's recommendation, he switched to studying under Sato Taizen. He quickly distinguished himself, and in 1859 he became Taizen's adopted eldest son and was appointed doctor for the Sakura Domain. He learned about Pompe from Taizen's biological son, Matsumoto Ryojun (Jun), and traveled to Nagasaki to study in 1860. He studied under Pompe and returned to the domain in 1862. He immediately carried out medical reforms in the Sakura Domain, and opened the Sakura Temporary Sanatorium. However, in 1869, while still in the middle of his career, he was asked by the government to become a doctor at Daigaku Toko in order to reform medical education, and he moved to Tokyo. At the same time, he was appointed as a senior doctor (later to become a junior doctor when the position was changed), but in 1872, following the arrival of German teachers such as Muller in Japan, he resigned with some volunteers and opened a private hospital called Hakuaisha in Nihonbashi. The following year, he resigned from all government positions and opened Tokyo Juntendo Hospital in Neribei-cho, Shitaya. In 1875, he moved to Yushima (where Juntendo University Hospital is now located) and completed construction of Juntendo Hospital, which became the first private general hospital. However, he fell ill shortly after the hospital opened, and called back his adopted son, Sato Susumu, who was studying in Germany, to take over the hospital. <Works> "Surgeons" and "Strohmeyer's Treatise on Cannon Injury" <References> "History of Juntendo" Vol. 1

(Shizu Sakai)

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没年：明治15.7.23(1882)
生年：文政10.4.4(1827.4.29)
幕末明治期の医者。順天堂(順天堂大学)の2代目堂主。名は正式には「たかなか」と読む。下総国(千葉県)小見川藩医山口甫僊の次男。16歳で江戸に出て儒学を寺門静軒に学び,医学は安藤文沢に入門したが,安藤の勧めで佐藤泰然の門に転じた。たちまち頭角を現して安政6(1859)年に泰然の養嫡子になり,佐倉藩医に任ぜられた。泰然の実子松本良順(順)からポンペの情報を得て万延1(1860)年に長崎に遊学。ポンペに学んで,文久2(1862)年に帰藩。直ちに佐倉藩の医学改革を行い,佐倉仮養生所を開設した。しかし明治2(1869)年,業半ばにして政府から医学教育の改革のため大学東校の大学大博士になることを要請されて上京。同時に大典医(のちに職制の変更で小典医)に任ぜられたが,ミュラーらドイツ人教師の来日により同5年に有志を連れて辞職,私立病院博愛舎を日本橋に開設した。翌6年,いっさいの官職を辞して東京順天堂を下谷練塀町に開設。8年に湯島(順天堂大学病院の所在地)に移転して,私立総合病院の嚆矢となった順天堂医院を竣工。しかし開院直後に病に倒れて,ドイツ留学中の養子佐藤進を呼び返してあとを任せた。<著作>『外科医方』『ストローマイエル砲痍論』<参考文献>『順天堂史』上

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