title: The rise of scientific medicine in Japan: Beriberi as the driving force in the quest for specific causes and the introduction of bacteriology.
authors.affiliation: Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Oberländer
mesh_terms: D001432:Bacteriology / Q000266:history*; D001602:Beriberi / Q000266:history*; D015984:Causality; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008511:Medicine; D012586:Science / Q000266:history*