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I discussed the Japanese medical science and medical treatment policy in the early years of Meiji (from the first to the 10th year of Meiji, namely 1868-1877) on the following points: (1) the fundamen...tal posture to medical science and medical treatment of the Restoration government in the first and second years of Meiji; (2) the adoption of German medical science ; (3) the circumstances and aim of the enactment and promulgation of "Medical System"; (4) the plan of the government to cultivate medical practitioners. In the first, I pointed out that the declaration of the new government to adopt the Occidental medical science besides the Chinese and Japanese medical sciences and the declaration of hospital construction intended to demonstrate the raison d'etre of the new government. In the second, I put forward a hypothesis contrary to the usual theory. Hitherto the adoption of German medical science was explained by the excellency of German medical science and the opinion of Japanese national polity. This opinion maintained that the Japanese national polity was to copy the German. But I indicated that in these days the imitation of German national polity was not fixed. As a hypothesis I think that the problem was solved ultimately by a part of political strife between the feudal clans (財閥). In the third, I described that the "Medical System" copying chiefly the German and Dutch systems was not a "Law," but a sort of the goal of efforts in the administration of medical treatment and hygiene. And this attitude, I suppose, foreshadowed fairly exactly the behavior pattern of the Meiji government. In the fourth, I outlined the vicissitudes of the system of "Medical Practitioner's License Examination" in the "Medical System" from the 8th to the 16th year of Meiji. As a supplement I mentioned an example of the circumstances until a youth who intends to be medical practitioner obtains the license in these days.show more
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