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Baron Takaki Kanehiro (高木 兼寛, 30 October 1849 – 12 April 1920) was a Japanese naval physician. He is known for his work on preventing the vitamin deficiency disease beriberi among sailors in the Japanese navy, who had been living mainly on white rice.
Kanehiro Takaki (1849–1920) was a Japanese naval medical officer at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. At that time, beriberi – a feared and often fatal disease – was prevalent throughout Japan and in many Southeast Asian countries. 1 , 2 Takaki used an epidemiological approach – which was then unfamiliar in ...
- Yoshifumi Sugiyama, Akihiro Seita
- 2013
- Introduction
- Early Life
- Epidemiological Studies of Beriberi
- The Voyages of The Ryujo and The Tsukuba
- The Elimination of Beriberi in The Japanese Navy
- Acknowledgements
- References
Kanehiro Takaki (1849-1920) was a Japanese naval medical officer at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. At that time, beriberi – a feared and often fatal disease – was prevalent throughout Japan and in many Southeast Asian countries (Vandenbroucke 2003; 2012). Takaki used an epidemiological approach – which was then unfamil...
Who was this remarkable man? Kanehiro Takaki was born in Takaoka-cho, Miyazaki Prefecture, on 15 September 1849. He was the first son of Kisuke and Sono Takaki. Kisuke was a lower-class samurai serving the Satsuma Domain and made a living as a carpenter in peace time. As a child, Kanehiro Takaki admired the local village doctor, and this made him a...
In 1880, when Takaki (now aged thirty-one) returned to Japan, beriberi was still prevalent: one in every three members of the Navy suffered from it. Using the epidemiological methods he had learned in the UK, Takaki researched the relationship between beriberi and living conditions in the Navy. He documented the frequency of the disease among offic...
At around the same time, an event occurred that would support his hypothesis. The training ship Ryujo had sailed from Shinagawa on 19 December 1882 and returned there on 15 October 1883, after calling at New Zealand, Chile, Peru, and Hawaii. During the voyage, 169 (44.9%) of the 376 crew members had developed beriberi and 25 (6.7%) of them had died...
After the new naval menu had been adopted, the number of beriberi patients in the Japanese Navy decreased dramatically, and the disease was finally eliminated within a few years. The increase in protein intake had eliminated beriberi because the amount of protein in the diet correlates with the amount of vitamin B1. Although Takaki was not aware th...
The editor of the James Lind Library is grateful to Masamichi Kitagawa, Main Library, Jikei University School of Medicine, for his assistance. This James Lind Library commentary has been republished in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2013;106:332-334. Print PDF
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6 de abr. de 2023 · One of the pioneers in the study of beriberi was Takaki Kanehiro, a Japanese naval medical officer. Takaki suspected that beriberi might be caused by a dietary deficiency rather than a bacterial...
- Karthick Nambi
29 de jul. de 2013 · In 1880, when Takaki (now aged 31) returned to Japan, beriberi was still prevalent: one in every three members of the Navy suffered from it. Using the epidemiological methods he had learned in the UK, Takaki researched the relationship between beriberi and living conditions in the Navy.
- Yoshifumi Sugiyama, Akihiro Seita
- 2013
Takaki Kanehiro (1849-1920). Born in the 2nd year of Kaei (1849) in Takaoka town of Miyazaki. He established prevention for Beriberi after studying its causes. This study opened the door for finding vitamins in later years. He also worked on medical education, and established Sei-I-Kai training center (currently, Jikei medical school).
Octover 30, 1849 - April 13, 1920. Birthplace (modern name) Miyazaki. Occupation, Status. Naval Officer , Scholar (Natural Science) , Educator. Pen name etc. Kenkan. Description. Naval physician. He studied Western medicine at the Kaisei Gakko school in Kagoshima and became a naval physician in 1872.
