■綜説
日本医科大学前身の済生学舎―済生救民と長谷川泰をめぐる人々―
志村 俊郎1, 2, 弦間 昭彦3
1独立行政法人東京労災病院第二臨床検査科
2一般社団法人日本医史学会
3日本医科大学
Saiseigakusha, the Predecessor of Nippon Medical School: Philosophy of Saisei-Kyumin and Associates of Tai Hasegawa
Toshiro Shimura1, 2 and Akihiko Gemma3
1)Department of the Second Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Japan Labour Health and Safety Organization Tokyo Rosai Hospital
2)Japanese Society for the History of Medicine
3)Nippon Medical School
This is a report about Saiseigakusha, the predecessor of Nippon Medical School, which advocated "Saisei-Kyumin", a philosophy that obliged Saiseigakusha to extend social and frontline medical support to ordinary people during the Meiji Era. Founded in 1876, Saiseigakusha was one of the most prominent private medical schools of the time, and it produced a large number of caring and skilled doctors to carry out the tenets of Saisei-Kyumin. The mission of Saiseigakusha's founder, Tai Hasegawa, was to foster excellent doctors who practice medicine with "selfless devotion to patients and society", and this also became the mission of his school. It was Hasegawa's conviction that medicine must engage deeply with society and people's lives, and he dedicated great effort to public health administration so that priority could be given to saving people in financial difficulty, which is the core principle of "socialized medicine". This paper examines the teachings and wise words of such medical professionals who studied at Saiseigakusha as Chuta Oguchi, Kenzo Suto, Hideyo Noguchi, Norihiko Asakawa and Tetsuzo Sugano, whose wisdom still shines now as it did then, and explores their personalities and encounters with outstanding medical visionaries. The history of Saiseigakusha and its contributions to medicine will continue for generations to come to be studied and to guide the medical education given at this school and the future of medicine and health care.
日医大医会誌 2022; 18(1), 86-97
Key words
Saiseigakusha, Saisei-Kyumin, Tai Hasegawa, historical figure
Correspondence to
Toshiro Shimura, Department of the Second Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Japan Labour Health and Safety Organization Tokyo Rosai Hospital, 4-13-21 Omori Minami, Ota-ku, Tokyo 143-0013, Japan
E-mail：t-simura@nms.ac.jp
受付：2021年7月9日 受理：2021年9月30日 |
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