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Kusumoto Ine

1827 - 1903

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Kusumoto Ine (楠本 イネ, 31 May 1827 – 27 August 1903; born Shiimoto Ine 失本 稲) was a Japanese physician. She was the first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan. She was the daughter of Kusumoto Taki, who was a courtesan from Nagasaki; and the German physician Philipp Franz von Siebold, who worked on Dejima, an island foreigners were restricted to during Japan's long period of seclusion from the world. Ine was also known as O-Ine and later in life took the name Itoku (伊篤). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kusumoto Ine is the 395th most popular physician (up from 411th in 2019), the 862nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 900th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Kusumoto Ine ranks 395 out of 726. Before her are Luigi Carlo Farini, Moritz Kaposi, Robert Liston, Paul Hermann, Emil Aarestrup, and Johann Lukas Schönlein. After her are Hélène Sparrow, Karl Friedrich Burdach, Ibn Abi Usaibia, Scribonius Largus, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, and Anders Chydenius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Kusumoto Ine ranks 40. Before her are Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria, Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia, Paul de Lagarde, William Windom, Henri Ernest Baillon, and Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg. After her are Karl Maximovich, Anthimus VII of Constantinople, Amédée Courbet, Pierre Cuypers, Pierre Tirard, and Charles Wolf. Among people deceased in 1903, Kusumoto Ine ranks 42. Before her are Ronglu, Giuseppe Zanardelli, Augusta Holmès, Béni Kállay, Malwida von Meysenbug, and Luigi Cremona. After her are Adrien Proust, Auguste Kerckhoffs, Konstantinos Paspatis, Harriet Lane, Robert Planquette, and Apolinario Mabini.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kusumoto Ine ranks 862 out of 6,245. Before her are Haruhisa Hasegawa (1957), Ōtomo Sōrin (1530), Kazuki Takahashi (1961), Matsudaira Katamori (1836), Shūji Terayama (1935), and Mitsugu Nomura (1956). After her are Ashikaga Yoshikatsu (1434), Sho Kosugi (1948), Hironori Ōtsuka (1892), Gorō Miyazaki (1967), Naoemon Shimizu (null), and Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (1946).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Japan

Among physicians born in Japan, Kusumoto Ine ranks 7. Before her are Shirō Ishii (1892), Kitasato Shibasaburō (1853), Hakaru Hashimoto (1881), Tasuku Honjo (1942), Hiraga Gennai (1728), and Shinya Yamanaka (1962). After her are Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Shinobu Ishihara (1879), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Kyusaku Ogino (1882), Sunao Tawara (1873), and Kei Okami (1859).

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