PMID: 11618864Sep 1, 1995Paper

Dr. Toraakira Okuyama, a higher medical officer of the Japanese navy in Meiji era

Nihon ishigaku zasshi. [Journal of Japanese history of medicine]
Yasuaki Fukase

Abstract

Toraakira Okuyama was born in Nagasaki in 1840. His father, Genchu Okuyama, was the Dutch learning doctor of the Kaminoyama clan and one of the founders of the Otamagaike Vaccination Center. During Tokugawa period T. Okkuyama, who had a title "Gensei", was appointed as medical officer in the infantry regiments in 1863 and then was promoted to vice-director. He was appointed as doctor of the national hospital (Daibyoin) and then as assistant professor in the new epoch of Meiji was transferred to become a naval medical officer in 1871. He was advanced to Dai-ikan, the highest rank of medical officer in the Japanese navy. He worked for the establishment of naval medical systematization and gave students education at the naval medical school (Kaigun-Guni-Ryo-Gakusha) with William Anderson and Edwin Wheeler. He resigned his post in 1876 and died in 1926, until which time he continued the life of a practitioner.

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