PMID: 11640020Dec 1, 1992Paper

The life of Prof. Dr. Shun-ichi Shimamura (1862-1923). A distinguished psychiatrist of misfortune

Nihon ishigaku zasshi. [Journal of Japanese history of medicine]
Y Okada

Abstract

Graduating from Tokyo Imperial University School of Medicine in 1887, Shimamura studied psychiatry under Prof. Hajime Sakaki. In 1891 he investigated fox-possession in Shimane Prefecture. In 1891-94 he studied psychiatry and neurology in Berlin and Vienna. Coming back in 1894, he was appointed professor of neuropsychiatry at Kyoto Prefectural Medical School. At the foundation of the medical school of Kyoto Imperial University in 1899, many professors moved from Kyoto Prefectural Medical School to Kyoto Imperial University. The existence of Kyoto Prefectural Medical School hung on a hair. As the director of the medical school, he strived hard for the existence of the school and attained his objective. But the overwork led him to severe and long illness. The philosophy of his psychiatric care was near to that of the present-day general hospital psychiatry. In Kyoto he had not enough time for psychiatric research. His name as a psychiatrist has been forgotten, together with his investigation of fox-possession.

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