Gendai Kamada
Gendai Kamada (1794–1854 or 1855) was a Japanese surgeon. Born in Iyo Province, Gendai moved to Kii Province at the age of 18 to study at a private school run by the prominent surgeon Seishu Hanaoka, where he learned how to administer general anaesthesia. Upon completion of his five-year training he opened a clinic in his hometown; he became well known throughout Japan for his surgical prowess, particularly his skill in treating breast cancer. In 1839 Gendai dictated the text of ''Mafutsuto-Ron'' to his student Hajime Matsuoka; this 10-page booklet has been called the earliest textbook of anaesthesia in the world. The work provides detailed instructions on the administration of ''mafutsuto'' (also known as ''tsusensan'' )—a herbal cocktail developed by Seishu Hanaoka to induce anaesthesia—including pre-operative care, contraindications for the procedure and methods for assessing the depth of anaesthesia. Contemporary surgeons used ''Mafutsuto-Ron'' to guide their practice, an ...
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Resection Of Testicular Tumour - Illustration From Gekakihaizufu By Gendai Kamada, 1840
Resection may refer to: *Resection (surgery), the removal by surgery of all or part of an organ or other body structure *Segmental resection (or segmentectomy), the partial removal of an organ or other body structure *Position resection, a means of establishing a location by measuring angles only to known points *free stationing, Resection (free stationing), a means of establishing a position and orientation of a total station by measuring angles and distances to known points *DNA end resection, the process of cutting away the 5' side of a blunt end of double-stranded DNA {{disambig ...
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