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Title: Letters from foreign lands
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Eccles, R. G. (Robert Gibson), 1848-1934
Subjects: History of Medicine Physicians
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo. : Medical Fortnightly
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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his mark for alltime by his work on antitoxin. To him, Beh-hring and Roux the world owes a debt ofgratitude that it can never fully repay. Itwas likewise Kitasato who, in 1889, isolatedthe bacillus of tetanus and in conjunctionwith his fellow-countryman, Yersin, in 1894,isolated that of plague. We here see thatJapanese men of science began very earlyto pay back to civilization part of the debtit owes. Many such cases can already becited, but there is one of particular interestto the medical men of the United States.Dr. Jokichi Takamine, now of New YorkCity, but formerly of Tokyo, was the first toisolate diastase, in commercial amounts,from a Japanese fungus and the first to iso-late adrenalin from the extract of the supra-renal glands. He is quite well known to alarge number of the medical men of ourcountry. The story of the additions to hu-man knowledge made by their botanists,zoologists, physicists, and other would be aninteresting one to give, but it would makethis letter too long.
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%v /#1;f%x DR. R. G. ECCLES AND WIFE In Moorish costume, in the Alhambra, Spain Touring the Lands WhereMedical Science Evolved ROBERT G. ECCLES, M. D. BROOKLYN, N. Y. y^ St. I,ons, Mo.: THE MEDICAL, FORTNIGHTLY 1910 TOURING THE LANDS WHERE MEDICALSCIENCE EVOLVED. GRECIAN. We began our first letter to the MedicalFortnightly in Turkey and ended our lastone in Yokohama. The trip across the Pa-cific Ocean and through the United States,being of little interest to readers, is pur-posely excluded, Our tour, of course, be-gan at Brooklyn and ended at the sameplace, but the voyage across the Atlantic,interesting as it could be made, must beexcised from our story for the purpose ofmaking room for still more interesting mat-ter. Our ship to Europe was called the Bar-barossa, and this name gave me the cueto considerable information that directed ourcourse, and it has likewise led to the writingof this and the two succeeding supplementaryletters. The chronological necessities of followingthe evolu

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