was a Japanese surgeon and professor.

Biography

Sato was born in 1857, the third son of

Ōgaki Domain was a '' fudai'' feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. It was located in Mino Province, in the Tōkai region of central Honshu. The domain was centered at Ōgaki Castle, in what is now the city of Ōgaki in Gifu Pre ...

member Satō Tadasaburō. After his father died in 1871, he moved to Tokyo and entered a private school run by Shiba Ryōkai ( 司馬凌海). Sato attended

Tokyo University , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...

, learning surgery under the guidance of Julius Scriba before graduating in 1882. Sato then studied abroad with

Aoyama Tanemichi was a medical scientist and doctor. He became a member of the Imperial Japan Academy in 1906, received the first class medal, "Order of the Sacred Treasure", in 1916, and was given the title of ''Danshaku'' ( baron) in 1917. He was born in ...

in Germany. In 1887, he became professor of Imperial University, and medical center director of attached hospital. In 1898, he founded the Japan Surgical Society with Tsugishige Kondo. In 1918, he became president of Tokyo University Faculty of Medicine. He was one of the first Japanese surgeons to make use of

antiseptics An antiseptic (from Greek ἀντί ''anti'', "against" and σηπτικός ''sēptikos'', "putrefactive") is an antimicrobial substance or compound that is applied to living tissue/skin to reduce the possibility of infection, sepsis, or putre ...

in surgical practice. In 1921, he was named emeritus professor of Tokyo University, and became a member of the House of Peers.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sato, Sankichi Japanese surgeons 1857 births 1947 deaths Academic staff of the University of Tokyo