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was a Japanese surgeon who became the first president of the Fukuoka Medical College that was founded in 1903 as a branch of the Medical Faculty of Kyōto University (''Kyōto teikoku daigaku Fukuoka ika-daigaku'', now the Faculty of Medicine,
File:Omori-dori-Kyushu-University.jpg, Ōmori memorial stone at the Ōmori-Street and the Kyushu University Medical History Museum (Maidashi-Campus)
File:Sculpture of Omori Harutoyo in Kyushu University Hospital.jpg, Statue of Ōmori Harutoyo near the university hospital
File:Ōmori-Harutoyo-1852-1912-President-Kyushu-University.jpg, Grave of Ōmori Harutoyo in the graveyard of the Sōfuku-Temple)
Department of Surgery, Kyushu University
(in Japanese)
(in Japanese) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ohmori, Harutoyo 1852 births 1912 deaths Japanese surgeons Academic staff of Kyushu University
was a Japanese surgeon who became the first president of the Fukuoka Medical College that was founded in 1903 as a branch of the Medical Faculty of Kyōto University (''Kyōto teikoku daigaku Fukuoka ika-daigaku'', now the Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University
, abbreviated to , is a public research university located in Fukuoka, Japan, on the island of Kyushu. Founded in 1911 as the fourth Imperial University in Japan, it has been recognised as a leading institution of higher education and resear ...
).
Ōmori was born in Edo, but he grew up in the domain Kaminoyama (Dewa province
was a province of Japan comprising modern-day Yamagata Prefecture and Akita Prefecture, except for the city of Kazuno and the town of Kosaka. Dewa bordered on Mutsu and Echigō Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was .
History
Early per ...
, nowadays Yamagata prefecture
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) where his father Ōmori Kaishun served as a physician to lord Matsudaira Nobumichi. In 1879 he graduated from Tokyo University
The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...
; the same year he went to a new post in the newly established Fukuoka Medical School. In 1888 when this school was abolished, he was appointed as the first director of the Fukuoka Prefectural Hospital. In 1885, he performed the first cesarean
Caesarean section, also known as C-section, cesarean, or caesarean delivery, is the surgical procedure by which one or more babies are delivered through an incision in the mother's abdomen. It is often performed because vaginal delivery would ...
operation in Japan. Dr. Omori laid the foundation for Kyushu University
, abbreviated to , is a public research university located in Fukuoka, Japan, on the island of Kyushu. Founded in 1911 as the fourth Imperial University in Japan, it has been recognised as a leading institution of higher education and resear ...
Faculty of Medicine before retiring in 1909.Kyushu University Archive (ed.): One Hundred Years of Kyushu University. Fukuoka, 2011, pp.10-17 (in Japanese, Kyūshū Daigaku hyakunen-shi shashin-shū) He did from a kidney trouble and was buried in the Sōfuku-Temple (Sōfuku-ji (Fukuoka)
is a Rinzai temple in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Japan. Its honorary '' sangō'' prefix is . The temple was founded by the monk in Dazaifu in 1240, but was moved to its present location in 1600 after it became the Kuroda family temple.
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next to the campus of the medical faculty.
See also
* Tome Yoshida, a Japanese nurseReferences
External links
Department of Surgery, Kyushu University
(in Japanese)
(in Japanese) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ohmori, Harutoyo 1852 births 1912 deaths Japanese surgeons Academic staff of Kyushu University