Sahachiro Hata (秦佐八郎, Sahachiro Hata^?); (23 March 1873 – 22 November 1938) is a Japanese physician who developed the Arsphenamine drug in 1908 in the laboratory of Paul Ehrlich. March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in leap years). ... 1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Doctor by Samuel Luke Fildes This article is about the term physician, one type of doctor; for other uses of the word doctor see Doctor. ... Arsphenamine is a drug that was used to treat syphilis and trypanosomiasis. ... Paul Ehrlich Paul Ehrlich in his workroom Paul Ehrlich (March 14, 1854 – August 20, 1915) was a German scientist who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. ...

Hata was born in Shimane Prefecture, and completed his medical education in Kyoto. He studied epidemic diseases under the famous Dr Kitasato Shibasaburo at Kitasato’s Institute for the Study of Infectious Diseases in Tokyo, and later studied immunology at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin. While in Germany, he took the opportunity to learn about chemotherapy at the German National Institute for Experimental Therapeutics in Frankfurt, where he assisted Paul Ehrlich in the discovery of arsphenamine, which proved effective in curing syphilis. Shimane Prefecture ) is located in the Chugoku region on Honshu island, Japan. ... Kyoto )   is a city in the central part of the island of HonshÅ«, Japan. ... Shibasaburo Kitasato (北里 柴三郎) (1852-1931) was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Immunology is a broad branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... Chemotherapy is the use of chemical substances to treat disease. ... For other uses, see Frankfurt (disambiguation). ... Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by a spirochaete bacterium, Treponema pallidum. ...

After his return to Japan, he helped found the Kitasato Institute, of which he became a director. He also lectured at Keio University. Keio University (慶應義塾大学 Keiō gijuku daigaku) is one of the top private universities in Japan, which has a proud history as Japans very first private institution of higher learning, which dates back to the formation of a school for Dutch studies in 1858 in Edo (now Tokyo) by founder Yukichi...

Dr Paul Ehrlich & Dr Hata Sahachiro

References

• Low, Morris. Building a Modern Japan: Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Meiji Era and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan (2005). ISBN 1-4039-6832-2
• Porter, Roy. Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine. W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (June 2004). ISBN 0-393-32569-5
• Waller, John. The Discovery of the Germ: Twenty Years That Transformed the Way We Think About Disease (Revolutions in Science). Columbia University Press (2003), ISBN 0-231-13150-X

External link

• Hata Sahachiro Memorial Museum, Shimane (Japanese site)