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hospitalization is not introduced. Handcuffs may be necessary, but intellectuals do not enter sanatoriums with excuses. The law should be powerful." On
October 2, 1952. "On on the testimony last year, I did not have enough time for preparation. There was no time. The people I want to hospitalize with power are exceptionally violent patients. I am afraid of familial infection."
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in order to cope with the children born of patients. Originally, it was due to difficulties to bring up the children within the hospital, and later, the worsening of leprosy in pregnancy. The
Interior Ministry was consulted, but did not give any response. Later he was bitterly
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test is his most important achievement. It proved very useful in the classification of leprosy. However, the original idea was to distinguish leprosy patients and persons with normal blood, and he invented a skin test using the killed
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for two years. In 1897, he worked at the Tokyo
Metropolitan Yoikuen Hospital where he met leprosy patients. In 1899, he isolated leprosy patients within the hospital and created a ward "Kaishun Ward", named after Kaishun Hospital of
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policy of Japan. He was given the Order of
Cultural Merits (1951) and Damien-Dutton Award (1961). He has been the cause of admiration from one side, and the target of criticism from the other.
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Zenshoen Hospital and then in 1914 he became the director of the hospital. He made a world trip to study leprosy abroad.
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Comparison in leprosy patients of
Fernandez and Mitsuda reactions using human and armadillo antigens: double-blind study. Millar JW, Gannon C, Chan CSP. Int J Lepr 43:226-233, 1975.
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Histologic study of the
Mitsuda reaction in patients with lepromatous leprosy and its prognostic value in bacteriologically negative cases. Oscar Reyes. Med cutanea 3:1139,1968.
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city. He went up to Tokyo in 1894 and studied medicine at a doctor's office and passed the First Stage Doctors' Practice Examination in 1895. Later he studied at a
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Lepromin skin testing in the classification of Hansen's disease in the United States. Krotoski WA, et al. Am J Med Scie 305:18-24,1993.
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On the value of skin reaction with emulsion of leproma, Jpn J Dermatol Urol 19,8,1919 (The first paper leading to the Mitsuda reaction)
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The Mitsuda lepromin reaction in long-term treated lepromatous leprosy. Waters MFR, Ridley DS, Lucas SB. Lepr Rev 61,347-352,1990.
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Mitsuda K: Atlas of Leprosy 1952 A study of 150 autopsies on cases of leprosy. Mitsuda K, Ogawa M. Int J Leprosy. 5,1,1937
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Sato S Outlook of The Third International Leprosy Congress, Papers on Leprosy (2) by Kensuke Mitsuda, 1950
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Mitsuda K The significance of skin tests using leprosy nodule extracts. Jpn J Dermatol Urologγ19, 8, 1919.
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On the therapeutic value of Gynocardia ( Chaulmoogra) oil in leprosy, Jpn J Dermatol Urol 12,12,1912
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On the Langhans giant cell in leprosy and the stellate body in nodular leprosy, Int J Lepr 3,3,1935
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reaction, (Mitsuda reaction), Segregation of leprosy patients
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203:Philippines
108:Nationality
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465:Categories
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265:Immunology
258:lymph node
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211:Inland Sea
143:Early life
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247:Pathology
229:vasectomy
162:pathology
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296:Lepromin
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