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Zuisen Ikeda was born in 1734.
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Zuisen Ikeda
Edit Profile池田瑞仙
also known as
Dokumi
Career
When a smallpox epidemic broke out in Miyajima, Hiroshima Prefecture, the manuscript helped him consiaerably in treating the victims. Later he gave up surgery and practiced vaccination in Kyoto and Osaka. Later was appointed medical officer in Edo (now Tokyo) (1797) where he founded a vaccination station and taught the subject at a medical school.
