Medicine, Doctor

Interesting Fact

During the Edo period, Japanese scholars became fascinated by Western medical knowledge arriving through Dutch trade. In 1774, they published Kaitai Shinsho, a Japanese translation of a Dutch anatomy book. The translators struggled with unfamiliar anatomical concepts and even compared the book's illustrations with actual dissections. 🩺 Their work became an important milestone in Japanese medicine and showed how Japan was beginning to combine its existing medical traditions with Western science.