Background
Kanzen Teruya (照屋寛善) was born in January, 1920 in Shuri, Naha, Okinawa.
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He graduated from Kyushu Medical College, now the medical department of Kurume University in 1942. In November, 1956, he studied a mass Cycas revoluta poisoning, the first in the world, which occurred because of starvation.
Career
He reported a mass Cycas revoluta poisoning in people living in Miyakojima Island in 1956. He later became professor at the University of the Ryukyus (1978–1985). In the last days of the war, he worked as an army physician stationed in Southeast Asia.
After repatriation, he went to Kurume and then Okinawa.
In 1956, he became the head of Okinawa Health Institute. In 1961, the vice-president of the Health Department, Ryukyu Government.
In 1963, he became the principal of Okinawa Nursing School. In 1973, he became the president of Okinawa Public Health Institute.
In 1976, he became professor at the Department of Health, University of the Ryukyus, In 1981, professor at the Department of medicine, University of the Ryukyuus.
In 1985, he retired from the university. In 1990, he became the head of Olive En Institute for the aged. In 2004, he died. This poisoning occurred in November, 1956 in Ueno Mura, Miyakojima.
Habu or Trimeresurus flavoviridis.
Medical policy and control. Control of tuberculosis in Okinawa.
He himself was a patient. Control of Paragonimiasis in Okinawa.
Critic of literary articles and essays for patients with leprosy at Okinawa Airakuen Sanatorium.
On February 2 and 3, 1960, Teruya eplained the real Okinawan medical conditions to Taro Takemi, the then president of the Japanese Medical Association and Takemi promised that Japan will help Okinawa in this connection.
