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| Material Name |
Smallpox Vaccination Kit |
| Year(Japanes Era Name) |
Meiji |
| Year |
1900 |
| Description |
This is a cow pox vaccination kit thought to date from the middle of the Meiji period.
Thanks to the efforts of ITO Keisuke (1803-1901) and others, vaccination against cow pox progressed remarkably in the Owari domain.ITO Keisuke was born in Gofuku-cho in Nagoya; in Bunsei year 3 (1820), at the age of 18, he opened a medical practice, and in Kaei year 5 (1852) was given an order by the feudal lordof Owari to run an inquiry into smallpox vaccination methods.
In the first year of the Meiji period (1868), ITO Keisuke, along with first-grade domain doctor ISHII Ryuan (1811-1884) and NAKAJIMA Sanhaku, court physician to the 21st feudal lord of Owari Tokugawa clan TOKUGAWA Yoshinori (1858-1875), signed a proposal for the establishment of a school of Western medicine in Nagoya, leading to the first medical school being set up in the Nagoya domain's former conference chamber. |
| Physical Description |
1 set |
| Material Type |
Medical appliance |
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