MEDICINE - KITASATO, Shibasaburo.

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Imperial Institute for the Study of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo. First edition of this history of the institute and the medical developments it pioneered. This included the discovery of a serum treatment for diphtheria, the isolation of the cause of dysentery, and the formulation of antivenoms from Okinawa's habu snakes. A portrait of its director, Kitasato Shibasaburo, was placed onto the 1,000 yen note in 2024 in honour of his contributions to medicine.The Imperial Institute was founded in 1892 by Kitasato as the first private research centre in Japan focusing on infectious diseases. Over the following 22 years, it gained a reputation as one of the world's most foremost medical research facilities, alongside the Pasteur Institute and the Rockefeller Institute, discovering causes and cures for a wide variety of ailments. Its famous researchers Kitasato, a student of Rober Koch and the person who discovered the bubonic plague bacillus; Dr Shiga, who isolated the bacterial cause of dysentery; and Hata Sahachiro, the man who discovered an arsenic-based injection for syphilis. This volume also features a list of the institution's publications from 1894 to 1914.

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