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Ryukichi Inada


Ryukichi Inada (稲田 龍吉 Inada Ryūkichi?, March 18, 1874 – February 27, 1950) was a Japanese physician, a prominent academic, and bacteriologist researcher. He was the discoverer of the Weil's disease pathogen. In addition to his life's work in early 20th-century Japanese medical education, he was a pioneer in Japanese clinical cardiology and oncology.

Inada was born in Nagoya and he graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in medicine before travelling abroad for medical studies in Germany.

Returning to Japan from Europe, Inada became the initial professor of medicine in the faculty at Fukuoka Medical School (Fukuoka Ika daigaku), which is today the (present Medical School of Kyushu University (Kyūshū daigaku igaku-bu)).

In 1914-1915, Inada discovered the spriochete of infectious jaundice (Weil's disease); and he developed a successful serum-therapy for the infection. He is credited with ground-breaking research on the Weil's disease pathogen Leptospirosis). The initial specimen material (Stock of Ictero No.1) which Dr. Inada isolated in 1914 has been preserved as a significant artifact in the history of medicine.

In 1915, Inaba he termed the pathogen as Paper about Japan infectious icterus (『日本黄疸出血性スピロヘータ病論』 Nihon ōdan shukketsu-sei supirohēta byōron?). The content of this paper was range over from discover of pathogen, and contagion sources, clinical medicine, pathology, diagnosis, to cure.


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