Kumagai Taizo

Kumagai Taizo

Kumagai Taizō ( Japanese 熊 谷 岱 蔵 ; born July 19, 1880 in Nagano Prefecture ; died February 19, 1962 ) was a Japanese medic.

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Kumagai Taizō graduated from Tōkyō University in 1906 in medicine. He became a lecturer under the medic Aoyama Tanemichi (1859-1917). From 1908 to 1913 he visited the USA and Germany for further training.

After his return, Kumagai became a professor at a special medical department at Tōhoku University , then in 1915 professor at the Faculty of Medicine. In 1940 he took over the presidency of the university, in 1941 he became the first director of the newly established institute for the study of acid-fast bacteria.

Kumagai was extensively involved in researching and curing tuberculosis . He hit u. a. Isoniazid and streptomycin as remedies and carried out clinical as well as pathohistological investigations. He also dealt with the isolation of insulin . He wrote a work on "Pneumothorax Treatment" (人工 気 胸 療法, Jinkō kikyō ryōhō), a method that is no longer used today.

In 1952, Kumagai was honored as a person with special cultural merits and was awarded the Order of Culture in the same year .

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Kumagai Taizō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 810.

Web links

Commons : Kumagai Taizō  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biographies Kumagai Taizō in the Kotobank, Japanese

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Kumagai is the family name, Taizō the first name.