XL A brief outline of the history of 

 Medicine in Japan. 



By 



Yu Fujikawa, M.D., D. Litt. 



Intercourse between Jaitau and Korea is recorded as having taken 

 l)lace even in the remote age of the gods, and in the history of the 

 Clwu dj-nasty in China (B. C. 1122 — 255) mention is made of inter- 

 course with Japan. However, these relations of the Japanese people 

 with the Koreans and Chinese were at first limited to those who lived 

 in the western part of Kyushu Island. According to authentic history, 

 the inhabitants of the main island of Japan came in.to contact with 

 the Koreans, only so late as B.C. 33 (the 65th year of Emperor ^ujin)^ 

 when the state of Mimana first sent tribute. After this date, inter- 

 course between tlie two countries became more and more frequent ; 

 and when during the reign of Emperor Ojin, the state of Pekche 

 (Kudara or Hyakusai) brought in her tribute, whicli included the 

 famous Confucian Analects, or Lun-Yu {Bongo) and other books, 

 Chinese culture through the medium of Korea began to profoundly 

 influence Japan. 



When Emperor Inkyo was ill, he sent for a medical doctor from 

 Silla (8hinva, Shiragi), and in response to this request Dr. Kiml)u 

 ^^ came over to examine the case in the autumn of A.D. 414, and 

 succeeded in curing the disease. In the 3rd year of Empero;- Yuryaku 

 (A.D. 458), Doctor Tokmui ^^ of Koryo (Korai, Konia) came over 

 to live in Naniwa (an old name for Osaka). His desceiidants also 

 professed medicine and were called Naniwa no Yakmhi (" Medical 

 professors of Naniwa "). 



In A.D. 552 (the 15th year of Emperor Kimmei), there came to 

 Japan from Pekclie tlie medical doctor Oyu-Rhyoda ^ ?^ |^ [S'^ and 

 the druggists Ham-yoho |# fl; ^ and Teiyuda T •"# Pb- '^^'^QJ brought 

 with them Korean drugs which they presented to the court. From 



