Shibasaburo kitasato biography of williams

Photograph of Kitasato (Bulloch, facing p. ).

For a time the most celebrated microbiologist in Japan, Kitasato Shibasaburo () was born on 20 December in Oguni, a mountain village in Kumamato prefecture.

In , at the age of twenty, he enrolled at Kumamato's new medical college where he befriended C.G. van Mansvelt, a Dutch physician then serving as the main advisor for medical education at the school. Over the course of many evenings at his home, Van Mansfelt tutored Kitasato in a variety of subjects while encouraging him to deepen his medical education, first at the University of Tokyo and then by undertaking further training in Europe, which is more or less exactly what he did.

In , Kitasato received a medical degree from the University of Tokyo.

The newly formed Public Health Bureau hired him as a research assistant for Masanori Ogata, an associate professor at the university who had lately returned to Japan from Germany. Inspired by the modern instrumentation and techniques he