Ryukichi Inada

Ryukichi Inada (稲田 龍吉, Inada Ryūkichi, March 18, 1874 – February 27, 1950) was a Japanese

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

Career

Returning to Japan from Europe, Inada became the first professor of medicine at Fukuoka Medical College (福岡医科大学, Fukuoka Ika Daigaku) of the Kyoto Imperial University (京都帝国大学, Kyōto Teikoku Daigaku), now Kyushu University, School of Medicine.

In 1914–1915, Inada discovered the spirochete bacteria that causes infectious jaundice (Weil's disease) and developed a successful antiserum treatment for the infection.^[1] He is credited with ground-breaking research on the Weil's disease pathogen, Leptospira. 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 described the pathogen in a series of papers titled "Hemorrhagic Icterus 'Spirochaete' Disease" (日本黄疸出血性「スピロヘータ」病, Nihon ōdan shukketsu-sei supirohēta byō) covering content ranging from the discovery of the pathogen, to contagion sources, clinical medicine, pathology, diagnosis, and cure.

Professor Inada was the first in Japan to import an electrocardiograph and, along with medical school colleagues, was amongst the first to use this device clinically in Japan.

He was awarded the Order of Culture (文化勲章, 'Bunka kunshō).

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Citations

References

• Kobayashi, Y. "Discovery of the causative organism of Weil's disease: historical view," Journal of Infectious Chemotherapy. Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 10–15 (2001 March).

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