Background
Maki Takata was born in Niigata Prefecture in 1892.
マキ 高田
Maki Takata was born in Niigata Prefecture in 1892.
He graduated from Tohoku Medical College (1915).
He studied physiology and biochemistry and he was conferred a doctorate of science for his thesis on gastric fluids which overthrew the former theory that the formation of gastric fluid was due to the stimulus of salt (1922).
Subsequently he was appointed lecturer at Tohoku University and then head of Koishikawa Hospital (1923), then of Prefectural Hospital, Kobe, and simultaneously lecturer at Hyogo Medical College (1934).
After World War II he set up a private practice at Tokyo, while holding the post of dean of Toho University's Faculty of Medicine. He was an honorary member of American International Academy and Japan's official representative on its committee. Among his works are "The Chemical Cure for Tuberculosis" and "Diagnostics of Cerebospinal Fluid."
