LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Athens, 12 October 1998
Dear Dr Cooke

Professor Kazuaki Misugi andRobin Cooke, Editor of the News
Bulletin at a Memorial Stone in
Inamuragasaki Park overlooking
Sagami Bay and onto the Pacific
Ocean.
On a clear day, one can get a niceview of Mt Fuji looking west fromthis spot. The stone commemorates
the visit of Robert Koch to the cityof Kamakura just south of Yokohama.

I would like to mention a mistake thatwas made in the issue of the News
Bulletin of the I.A.P. (Volume 33, Number 2, 1997), in the article “The I.AP. in
Action” presenting Pathology in
Greece. More specifically, in the background map illustrating this article, theneighboring country appeared as
MACEDONIA and not FYROM (Former
Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia),
the official name of this country according to the statement of the Security
Council of the Organization of United
Nations.
As you know, Macedonia is the nameof the northern part of Greece. Since
we are very sensitive in historical issues, it would be appreciated if you
could correct this erratum in the forthcoming issue of the bulletin.
Sincerely yours, George Kontogeorgos
Secretary, Hellenic Division.

The actor continued his stage career, performing with the aid of the first artificial leg tobe used in Japan.
In 1867 Dr Hepburn and his associates published the first Japanese / English and English /Japanese dictionary. Then he completed thefirst translation of the Bible into Japanese. His
wife taught small groups of Japanese girls.
This developed into the first school in Japanfor higher education of women. Dr Hepburn
is remembered not only for his medical
deeds, but also as a leader who opened theeyes of the Japanese to modern civilisation
and western culture.

Dr Duane B. Simmons
Dr Simmons, a Reform Church missionary arrived in Japan in 1859, shortly after Dr Hepburn. Within a short time he resigned as a
missionary and developed a medical practice.
He served as physician in chief at Juzen Hospital, the first modern general hospital established by the local government and the citizens of Yokohama. As well as doing hospitalwork he engaged in public health measures
which included control of cholera epidemics
and vaccination programs. Beri beri was acommon disease and he did some research on
this condition. (Dr K. Takaki, to be mentioned
later, is credited with proposing that beri beri
was caused by a dietary defect). Dr Simmons

performed autopsies before the first official
autopsy was performed at the University ofTokyo. The Juzen Hospital later became the
Yokohama City University Hospital.
In 1880 he returned to the U.S.A. but six years
later he went back to Japan. In this period hetreated Mr Yukichi Fukuzawa, a leading philosopher and educationalist. Mr Fukuzawa thenestablished a medical facility. Dr Simmons wasinvited to be a teacher in this school. It later
became the Medical School of Keio Gijuku
University.

of Medicine of Kagoshima University. One ofhis students there was Dr Kanehiro Takaki.
Undoubtedly under the influence of Dr Willis,
Dr Takaki spent his postgraduate training
years in St Thomas’s Hospital, London. He
then returned to Japan and established the
Jikei University Medical School in Tokyo. This
University was predominantly involved with
the Navy while Tokyo University was involved
with the Army. Dr Takaki ultimately became
Surgeon General of the Imperial Naval Medi-

I.A.P. IN ACTION
Hungarian Division
Since 1997 the Division has been purchasing textbooks which could be regarded as laboratory handbooks forlaboratories in Hungary which do nothave enough money to purchase them.
In 1998 twenty such books were purchased.
During 1998 the policy of supporting
members of the Division to attend international acknowledged congresses orcourses was continued. Pathologists
who have an Abstract accepted at theCongress can apply for support to partly
cover the registration fee and travel
costs. In 1998 eleven members of theDivision were supported in this way. As
well, two delegates were supported toattend the US/CAP Annual Meeting in
Boston, and twenty three Hungarian
Pathologists attended the International
Congress in Nice.
Twelve pathologists attended the 34th
Symposium of the German Division of
the I.A.P. in Bonn from February 19 22, 1998. The German Division offereda reduced participation fee and theFoundation of Professor Vladimir
Totovic partly covered the accommodation cost of the Hungarian participants.
Professor Totovic was the longstanding
Secretary - Treasurer of the German
Division. He took a special interest in
postgraduate education, particularly for
Pathologists in former Eastern bloc
countries (Sadly, Professor Totovic diedduring 1998).
The Joint Congress of the Hungarian
Division of the I.A.P. and the Hungarian Society of Pathology was held in
Gyula in the South-East of Hungary
from August 26 - 29.
Anna Kadar
President, Hungarian Division.

Dr William Willis (1837- 1894)

cal Corps.

German Division

Dr Willis is a representative of the British influence on medicine in Japan. He had his schooling in Glasgow and graduated from Edinburgh
University, Scotland. He came to Japan in 1862
as a physician in the British consulate. He
worked as an army doctor in the Emperor’sarmy during the Civil war between the Emperor and the remaining Shoguns who had not
yet accepted the rule of the Emperor. The
British government was supporting the Emperor. He established a military hospital in Yokohama.

This article mentions only a small number of

The 34th Annual Symposium of theGerman Division was held in Bonnfrom February 20 - 22, 1998. In the last
few years there have been increasing
numbers of registrants from East Euro-

After the Meiji government adopted German
medicine as its model in 1868 Dr Willis left for
Kagoshima, Kyushu at the invitation of the local Shimaze clan. There he helped to establish
the medical school which became the School

doctors who helped influence the course of
medicine in Japan. In addition to them, many
Western physicians came to other parts of Japan as missionaries or as teachers invited by
the local lords (the former Shoguns). They allcontributed to the development of Japanese
medicine. In addition to this, they also introduced their Japanese colleagues and associates to Western culture.
Kazuaki Misugi, formerly Professor of Pathology, University of Yokohama Medical School.
Information on Professor Tawara provided byProfessor Masazumi Tseunyoshi, University of
Fukuoka, Kyushu.

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pean countries, in particular the Czech
Republic, the Ukraine, Hungary and
Slovakia.
The highlight of the Symposium was the
all-day slide seminar on “Differential Diagnosis of Pre-Neoplasias and Tumours of
the Prostate”. Six half day slide seminars
covered a variety of topics. An evening
keynote lecture on “Creutzfeldt - Jacob
Disease, Kuru and BSE” was delivered by
Wolfgang Feiden from Hamburg.
The 35th Symposium of the German
Division will be held in Bonn fromFebruary 19 - 21, 1999.
Albert Roessner
Secretary, German Division.

Indian Division
The second edition of the News Bulletin was published in July 1998. The mid
year teaching program which was aworkshop on cardiovascular pathology
was held in Mumbai on March 30 and
31. The Annual Meeting of the Division was held in Kanyakumari on December 16 1998. The First Annual
Continuing Medical Education Program of the Indian Division was held in
Pune on the 30th August, 1998 at theArmed Forces Medical College. The
topic was Liver Diseases. A large number of delegates attended.
Francisco Couto
Secretary, Indian Division.

and Urological pathology.
Further information about the Bursary,
including an application form andmore details of forthcoming meetings,
can be found on the Website of
the British Division of the IAP, at:
http://www.le.ac.uk/pa/pnf1/IAP/Iaphome.htm
Peter Furness
University of Leicester, U.K.
Phone: (+44)(0) 116 2584582
Fax: (+44)(0) 116 2584573
Email: pfurness@pathology.u-net.com.

Brazilian Division
The Brazilian Division has been co-operating closely with the Brazilian Society of
Pathology in the organisation of meetings and continuing education activities.
This co-operation has been very productive and fruitful. The Division has 446
active members who are also members ofBritish Division“An International Travel Bursary has
recently been established by the British
Division, and already the first grant has
been made - to a pathologist from Uganda.The Bursary has been set up principally to permit trainee pathologists fromless affluent countries to travel to one of
the educational meetings of the British
Division. Successful applicants are also
encouraged to spend up to two weeks
training in a laboratory while they are in
the UK or other areas covered by the
British Division, and accommodation
expenses will be provided to facilitate
this. Forthcoming educational meetings
include Breast pathology, Pulmonary
pathology, Gynaecoloogical pathology

L-R. Marcello Franco, President Brazilian Division; Dr S. Suzigan; Kash Mostofi; Dr I.A. Sesterhenn.

In 1997/1998 ten different educational
symposia and/or slide sessions were arranged. Most of these were conducted byoverseas speakers. The sessions were repeated in a number of different centres
around the country so that the largest
possible number of people could benefit
from them.
The next meeting of the Brazilian Congress of Pathology will be held in Curitiba, Parana, in June 1999.
Marcello Franco
President, Brazilian Division.

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Vol 40 No 1 1999

Meet the President
for 1999/2000
Professor Doctor Anna Kadar
Anna Kadar graduated in Medicine fromthe Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest, Hungary in 1959. She obtained
her PhD from the University in 1972 fora thesis entitled “The Morphology ofElastic Fibre Formation under Normal
and Pathological Conditions”. She obtained a DMSc from the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences in 1980 with athesis entitled “The Molecular Morphology of the Vascular Elastic Fibres”. Her
main research interest has been (a) the
pathogenesis of atherosclerosis (b) connective tissue diseases (extracellular matrix pathology - in connection with tumour pathology) and (c) ultrastructuraland molecular pathology.
She was appointed Professor of Pathology in 1982 and Director of the Second
Department of Pathology, Semmelweis
University of Medicine in 1993. From1989 to 1994 she was Associate Dean of
the Faculty and then became Directorof Foreign Students Studies.
Her longest period of study outside
Hungary was fifteen months at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in London, England. She spent shorter periods
in Paris, Bologna and Boston. Since
1990 she has been a Visiting Professor
at the Mayo Clinic on anumber of occasions. She
has published over 150
scientific publications anddone over 240 presentations at various international congresses and conferences.
Professor Kadar has held
many executive positionsin national pathology societies. She was European
Vice President of the
I.A.P. from 1990 to 1996.
She was President of thevery successful Interna-

tional Congress of the I.A.P. held in
Budapest, Hungary in 1996. At thatmeeting she became President Elect of
the I.A.P. and at the Nice Congress in1998 she became President.

Report on the International Council Meetingof the I.A.P.
Held on Sunday, October 18th
1998 in Nice, France
49 of the possible 81 international councillors attended the meeting. Also attending in a non-voting capacity wereother professional employees and advisers to the I.A.P. Secretariat.
Below: Attendees of the Council meeting with themembers of the executive in the front row.
continued page 2

Report of the President
The President Dr Fenoglio-Preiser reported (among other things) that the
I.A.P. provides education assistancethrough grants for the amount of$US2000 per request from Divisions.
This money can be used to cover thecost of printing and duplicating meeting handouts, preparing glass slides for
slide seminars, preparing audio-visualmaterial and for translation costs. She
indicated that the Executive is looking
at liberalising the guidelines for use of
grants of this type. She also indicatedthat the Finance Committee will be examining ways of establishing a trust account which would allow the I.A.P. to
be more active in supporting educational activities in poorer countries.

Report from the Secretary
Dr Florabel Mullick reported on activities since her appointment as Secretary in
1994. In that time, four new Divisions
have been created - Indonesia, Nepal,
Yugoslavia and Puerto Rico. Six Divisions have been re-activated - Poland,
Romania and four Spanish-speaking Divisions, Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico and
Uruguay. Some other countries are also
negotiating to form Divisions.
During her term as Secretary she enabled a website for the I.A.P. to be established. This contains the consitution
and by-laws and the history of the I.A.P.
for the past 75 years. I.A.P. News Bulletins were added to this website in 1995.
Editions since then are being added asthey appear. Divisions which produce
News Letters would be able to add theirNews Letters to this website.
As indicated elsewhere in this News
Bulletin, an International Membership
Directory for the I.A.P. is in the processof being completed. This will include
the details of 16,000 members. A professional company at no expense to the
I.A.P. is providing this service. Once thecompany has recouped all of its expenses through individual sales of the directory, a percentage of future sales willthen be paid into the I.A.P. funds.

Report from the Treasurer and Finance Committee
Dr Jack Strong reported that the finances of the I.A.P. were in good shape. The
budget forecast for the next two years
projected a small profit. Membershipdues were paid by thirty eight Divisions
in 1998 for a total of 12067 paid-up
members.

Report from the InterCongress
Education Committee
Dr Antonio Llombart-Bosch reported on
the activities of this Comittee from 1996
- 1998. He reported that a Postgraduate

Pathology Course was held in Havana
asian Division will be Robin Cooke, thepresent Editor of the News Bulletin.
(Cuba) in December 1996. This Course
was sponsored by the Spanish Division
Other Businessand the University of Valencia. The
American Registry of Pathology donated
Dr Fenoglio-Preiser congratulated FranFascicles and other educational material.
cis Jaubert and his collaborators for theSeventy three pathologists attended theexcellent Congress they had run in
Course. Another Course was planned for
Nice (France).
December 1998. In June 1997 a PatholFlorabel G. Mullick, Secretary. I.A.P.
ogy Course was conducted in Russia.
This was sponsoredby the Russian Division and also by
the German andSpanish Divisions.
Over forty members from Russia
and other former
countries of the Soviet Union attended this Conference.
As a result of this, a
new organisation
called The International Union of Pa- Delegates from the former countries of the Soviet Union with, at far right, Antonio Llomthologist Associa- bart-Bosch from Valencia Spain, President of the Inter-Congress Education Committee and ations was estab- former President of the IAP.
lished. This organisation includes associations of pathologists from the former Soviet Union
Watch the mail for(Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Baltic Counyour IAP Membershiptries, Uzbekistan and Georgia). This orDirectory
ganisation will be holding a meeting in
Moscow December 7 - 10, 1999.
Questionnaire!
Other Divisions that have been supThe International Academy of Pathology isported by the Education Committee arepleased to announce the publication of our
the Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian,
all-new Membership Directory. This all-new
Ukraine and Chinese. The A.F.I.P.
edition will be the most up-to-date and definsponsored several Pathology Courses initive “who’s who” of 16,000 IAP members,
Spanish in various Latin Americanand will serve as an important tool for career
countries as well as in Valencia (Spain).
networking, locating former colleagues, andDr David Hardwick, a member of thisexchanging information with fellow members!
Committee reported that his University
Complete member profiles will include name;(The University of British Columbia,
primary and secondary areas of specialization;
Canada) had donated $50, 000 for acurrent job title; employer name, address, teleFaculty Member to attend educational
phone and fax numbers; up to three certificatesmeetings in China.
or degrees earned from up to three institutions
and residence address and phone. Listings will
Gold Medal of the I.A.P.
also contain a special designation to indicate if
Dr David Hardwick, the Chairman ofa member appears in the e-mail section.
the Nominating Committee announced
To make finding the information you need
the presentation of a Gold Medal of theeven easier, the directory is organized into
I.A.P. to the following: Christiansections listing members by name, primary
Nezelof (French Division) ; Adonis dearea of specialization, geographic location,
Carvalho (Brazilian Division) ; Stephen
and e-mail address.
Vogel (US & Canadian Division) ; Joe
Lee (Chinese Division)
In order to compile the most comprehensive[Further mention of this will be made inlisting of IAP members, we have contracted
the next edition of the News Bulletin]with Bernard C. Harris Publishing Company,
Inc., to produce the directory, and their 35
Reports were received from the followyears of experience and commitment to exceling: the various Vice-Presidents, thelence will make it a quality publication.
Organisers of the following International Congresses - 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002
To ensure the most complete and up-to-date
and the Editor of the News Bulletin.
information for this special publication, Harris Publishing will mail questionnaire forms
Fifteenth International Congress
to all members this winter. Please keep an eye
The Council voted to have this Conout for this form, check it for accuracy whengress in Brisbane (Australia). The Conit arrives, and return it to our Directory Pubgress organiser, on behalf of the Australlication office at your earliest convenience.

The introductionof western medicine
to JapanIn the mid 1500’s missionaries and tradersfrom Spain and Portugal arrived in Japan.
Among other things they brought with themknowledge of contemporary western medicine. However, from the early 1600’s Japan cut
itself off from the rest of the world for another
200 years. During this time the only access towestern medical knowledge came throughDutch physicians, particularly Dr Von Seibold
stationed in a segregated part of Nagasaki(see News Bulletin Volume 39, Number 1).
In 1859 a treaty was signed between the United States and Japanese governments which
opened the port of Yokohama, and therefore
Japan to international trade, and to Western
influence.
As part of this new era of openness to theworld, many physicians from the United States,
Great Britain, France, Germany came to Japanand sowed the seeds of modern medicine.
This article mentions some of the physicians
who worked in Yokohama which was the mostactive port in Japan. The government of theday under the Meiji emperor selected German medicine as the preferred model on
which to base medicine in Japan.
As a result of this decision German doctors
were appointed as teachers at the principal
universities and prospective leaders in Japanese medicine were sent to German universities for postgraduate training. One of thesestudents was Dr Tawara. He worked with
Aschoff in Marburg and wrote his doctoral
thesis on the anatomy of the conducting system of the heart with particular reference to
the AV node.
At the completion of his term in Germany hereturned to Japan to become the First Professor of Pathology at Fukuoka University.
Many postgraduate medical students went towork at Charite Hospital in Berlin with theanatomical pathologist Rudolph Virchow andwith the microbiologist Robert Koch. One of
the famous microbiologists who worked with
Robert Koch was Kitasato. Some years later
when Kitasato had become a prominent Professor in Japan, Robert Koch paid him a visit.

Dr James Curtis Hepburn (18151911)
Dr Hepburn was a busy ophthalmologist in

Clockwise from top:
Aschoff with a group of postgraduate students including Tawara;
Professor Masazumi Tseunyoshi - the fifth
professor at Fukuoka beside a memorial
recently raised to Professor Tawara, thefirst professor, in the grounds of the medical school by the graduates of 1958;
Depiction of the amputation;
Dr James Hepburn;
Dr Takeo Nagayo - a delegate to the 1998 Congress in Nice, is aliving link with the early doctors in Japan. His grandfather was apupil of Von Seibold in Nagasaki. His father, Mataro Nagayo,
was a Professor of Pathology and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
at the University of Tokyo. He himself was Professor of Pathology
in Nagoya - the city of the Congress 2000. Neither of his twochildren is a doctor, so the medical tradition will not extend into
the fourth generation;
Plaque at the entrance to the Kagoshima University Medical
School commemorating the 100th anniversary of the arrival of
Dr Willis (April 21, 1868);
Front page of Tawara’s doctoral thesis.

New York City. When Japan was opened toforeigners, he moved to Yokohama as a Presbyterian missionary. He quickly established areputation as an ophthalmologist, but he became really famous after he performed an
amputation of the leg of the popular Kabuki
actor, Sawamura Tanosuke.
Continued pg 5

Guy Périé,the current
President of
the French
Division organizedavery successful wine tastingone
evening during the Nice Congress. Tables were set
up in a large reception room in the
Acropolis Congress Centre. Wines andcheeses from all of the main wine producing areas in France were represented. These were tastefully arranged ontables around the room. The servers
were dressed in traditional costumes of
the wine areas. This helped to give atmosphere to the occasion. Each delegate
was provided with a guide to the regions
together with a table indicating how to“read” the label on the bottles. Thus it
was possible to do a mini tour of thewine regions of France. The members of
the Congress Organizing Committee
could personally recommend the wines
because they had sampled wine from adifferent region at each of their meetings during the previous 18 months.

A young lady serving wine from the Auvergne region, just east of Bordeaux.

Report of the President
The President Dr Fenoglio-Preiser reported (among other things) that the
I.A.P. provides education assistancethrough grants for the amount of$US2000 per request from Divisions.
This money can be used to cover thecost of printing and duplicating meeting handouts, preparing glass slides for
slide seminars, preparing audio-visualmaterial and for translation costs. She
indicated that the Executive is looking
at liberalising the guidelines for use of
grants of this type. She also indicatedthat the Finance Committee will be examining ways of establishing a trust account which would allow the I.A.P. to
be more active in supporting educational activities in poorer countries.

Report from the Secretary
Dr Florabel Mullick reported on activities since her appointment as Secretary in
1994. In that time, four new Divisions
have been created - Indonesia, Nepal,
Yugoslavia and Puerto Rico. Six Divisions have been re-activated - Poland,
Romania and four Spanish-speaking Divisions, Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico and
Uruguay. Some other countries are also
negotiating to form Divisions.
During her term as Secretary she enabled a website for the I.A.P. to be established. This contains the consitution
and by-laws and the history of the I.A.P.
for the past 75 years. I.A.P. News Bulletins were added to this website in 1995.
Editions since then are being added asthey appear. Divisions which produce
News Letters would be able to add theirNews Letters to this website.
As indicated elsewhere in this News
Bulletin, an International Membership
Directory for the I.A.P. is in the processof being completed. This will include
the details of 16,000 members. A professional company at no expense to the
I.A.P. is providing this service. Once thecompany has recouped all of its expenses through individual sales of the directory, a percentage of future sales willthen be paid into the I.A.P. funds.

Report from the Treasurer and Finance Committee
Dr Jack Strong reported that the finances of the I.A.P. were in good shape. The
budget forecast for the next two years
projected a small profit. Membershipdues were paid by thirty eight Divisions
in 1998 for a total of 12067 paid-up
members.

Report from the InterCongress
Education Committee
Dr Antonio Llombart-Bosch reported on
the activities of this Comittee from 1996
- 1998. He reported that a Postgraduate

Pathology Course was held in Havana
asian Division will be Robin Cooke, thepresent Editor of the News Bulletin.
(Cuba) in December 1996. This Course
was sponsored by the Spanish Division
Other Businessand the University of Valencia. The
American Registry of Pathology donated
Dr Fenoglio-Preiser congratulated FranFascicles and other educational material.
cis Jaubert and his collaborators for theSeventy three pathologists attended theexcellent Congress they had run in
Course. Another Course was planned for
Nice (France).
December 1998. In June 1997 a PatholFlorabel G. Mullick, Secretary. I.A.P.
ogy Course was conducted in Russia.
This was sponsoredby the Russian Division and also by
the German andSpanish Divisions.
Over forty members from Russia
and other former
countries of the Soviet Union attended this Conference.
As a result of this, a
new organisation
called The International Union of Pa- Delegates from the former countries of the Soviet Union with, at far right, Antonio Llomthologist Associa- bart-Bosch from Valencia Spain, President of the Inter-Congress Education Committee and ations was estab- former President of the IAP.
lished. This organisation includes associations of pathologists from the former Soviet Union
Watch the mail for(Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Baltic Counyour IAP Membershiptries, Uzbekistan and Georgia). This orDirectory
ganisation will be holding a meeting in
Moscow December 7 - 10, 1999.
Questionnaire!
Other Divisions that have been supThe International Academy of Pathology isported by the Education Committee arepleased to announce the publication of our
the Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian,
all-new Membership Directory. This all-new
Ukraine and Chinese. The A.F.I.P.
edition will be the most up-to-date and definsponsored several Pathology Courses initive “who’s who” of 16,000 IAP members,
Spanish in various Latin Americanand will serve as an important tool for career
countries as well as in Valencia (Spain).
networking, locating former colleagues, andDr David Hardwick, a member of thisexchanging information with fellow members!
Committee reported that his University
Complete member profiles will include name;(The University of British Columbia,
primary and secondary areas of specialization;
Canada) had donated $50, 000 for acurrent job title; employer name, address, teleFaculty Member to attend educational
phone and fax numbers; up to three certificatesmeetings in China.
or degrees earned from up to three institutions
and residence address and phone. Listings will
Gold Medal of the I.A.P.
also contain a special designation to indicate if
Dr David Hardwick, the Chairman ofa member appears in the e-mail section.
the Nominating Committee announced
To make finding the information you need
the presentation of a Gold Medal of theeven easier, the directory is organized into
I.A.P. to the following: Christiansections listing members by name, primary
Nezelof (French Division) ; Adonis dearea of specialization, geographic location,
Carvalho (Brazilian Division) ; Stephen
and e-mail address.
Vogel (US & Canadian Division) ; Joe
Lee (Chinese Division)
In order to compile the most comprehensive[Further mention of this will be made inlisting of IAP members, we have contracted
the next edition of the News Bulletin]with Bernard C. Harris Publishing Company,
Inc., to produce the directory, and their 35
Reports were received from the followyears of experience and commitment to exceling: the various Vice-Presidents, thelence will make it a quality publication.
Organisers of the following International Congresses - 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002
To ensure the most complete and up-to-date
and the Editor of the News Bulletin.
information for this special publication, Harris Publishing will mail questionnaire forms
Fifteenth International Congress
to all members this winter. Please keep an eye
The Council voted to have this Conout for this form, check it for accuracy whengress in Brisbane (Australia). The Conit arrives, and return it to our Directory Pubgress organiser, on behalf of the Australlication office at your earliest convenience.

The introductionof western medicine
to JapanIn the mid 1500’s missionaries and tradersfrom Spain and Portugal arrived in Japan.
Among other things they brought with themknowledge of contemporary western medicine. However, from the early 1600’s Japan cut
itself off from the rest of the world for another
200 years. During this time the only access towestern medical knowledge came throughDutch physicians, particularly Dr Von Seibold
stationed in a segregated part of Nagasaki(see News Bulletin Volume 39, Number 1).
In 1859 a treaty was signed between the United States and Japanese governments which
opened the port of Yokohama, and therefore
Japan to international trade, and to Western
influence.
As part of this new era of openness to theworld, many physicians from the United States,
Great Britain, France, Germany came to Japanand sowed the seeds of modern medicine.
This article mentions some of the physicians
who worked in Yokohama which was the mostactive port in Japan. The government of theday under the Meiji emperor selected German medicine as the preferred model on
which to base medicine in Japan.
As a result of this decision German doctors
were appointed as teachers at the principal
universities and prospective leaders in Japanese medicine were sent to German universities for postgraduate training. One of thesestudents was Dr Tawara. He worked with
Aschoff in Marburg and wrote his doctoral
thesis on the anatomy of the conducting system of the heart with particular reference to
the AV node.
At the completion of his term in Germany hereturned to Japan to become the First Professor of Pathology at Fukuoka University.
Many postgraduate medical students went towork at Charite Hospital in Berlin with theanatomical pathologist Rudolph Virchow andwith the microbiologist Robert Koch. One of
the famous microbiologists who worked with
Robert Koch was Kitasato. Some years later
when Kitasato had become a prominent Professor in Japan, Robert Koch paid him a visit.

Dr James Curtis Hepburn (18151911)
Dr Hepburn was a busy ophthalmologist in

Clockwise from top:
Aschoff with a group of postgraduate students including Tawara;
Professor Masazumi Tseunyoshi - the fifth
professor at Fukuoka beside a memorial
recently raised to Professor Tawara, thefirst professor, in the grounds of the medical school by the graduates of 1958;
Depiction of the amputation;
Dr James Hepburn;
Dr Takeo Nagayo - a delegate to the 1998 Congress in Nice, is aliving link with the early doctors in Japan. His grandfather was apupil of Von Seibold in Nagasaki. His father, Mataro Nagayo,
was a Professor of Pathology and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
at the University of Tokyo. He himself was Professor of Pathology
in Nagoya - the city of the Congress 2000. Neither of his twochildren is a doctor, so the medical tradition will not extend into
the fourth generation;
Plaque at the entrance to the Kagoshima University Medical
School commemorating the 100th anniversary of the arrival of
Dr Willis (April 21, 1868);
Front page of Tawara’s doctoral thesis.

New York City. When Japan was opened toforeigners, he moved to Yokohama as a Presbyterian missionary. He quickly established areputation as an ophthalmologist, but he became really famous after he performed an
amputation of the leg of the popular Kabuki
actor, Sawamura Tanosuke.
Continued pg 5

Guy Périé,the current
President of
the French
Division organizedavery successful wine tastingone
evening during the Nice Congress. Tables were set
up in a large reception room in the
Acropolis Congress Centre. Wines andcheeses from all of the main wine producing areas in France were represented. These were tastefully arranged ontables around the room. The servers
were dressed in traditional costumes of
the wine areas. This helped to give atmosphere to the occasion. Each delegate
was provided with a guide to the regions
together with a table indicating how to“read” the label on the bottles. Thus it
was possible to do a mini tour of thewine regions of France. The members of
the Congress Organizing Committee
could personally recommend the wines
because they had sampled wine from adifferent region at each of their meetings during the previous 18 months.

A young lady serving wine from the Auvergne region, just east of Bordeaux.

Report of the President
The President Dr Fenoglio-Preiser reported (among other things) that the
I.A.P. provides education assistancethrough grants for the amount of$US2000 per request from Divisions.
This money can be used to cover thecost of printing and duplicating meeting handouts, preparing glass slides for
slide seminars, preparing audio-visualmaterial and for translation costs. She
indicated that the Executive is looking
at liberalising the guidelines for use of
grants of this type. She also indicatedthat the Finance Committee will be examining ways of establishing a trust account which would allow the I.A.P. to
be more active in supporting educational activities in poorer countries.

Report from the Secretary
Dr Florabel Mullick reported on activities since her appointment as Secretary in
1994. In that time, four new Divisions
have been created - Indonesia, Nepal,
Yugoslavia and Puerto Rico. Six Divisions have been re-activated - Poland,
Romania and four Spanish-speaking Divisions, Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico and
Uruguay. Some other countries are also
negotiating to form Divisions.
During her term as Secretary she enabled a website for the I.A.P. to be established. This contains the consitution
and by-laws and the history of the I.A.P.
for the past 75 years. I.A.P. News Bulletins were added to this website in 1995.
Editions since then are being added asthey appear. Divisions which produce
News Letters would be able to add theirNews Letters to this website.
As indicated elsewhere in this News
Bulletin, an International Membership
Directory for the I.A.P. is in the processof being completed. This will include
the details of 16,000 members. A professional company at no expense to the
I.A.P. is providing this service. Once thecompany has recouped all of its expenses through individual sales of the directory, a percentage of future sales willthen be paid into the I.A.P. funds.

Report from the Treasurer and Finance Committee
Dr Jack Strong reported that the finances of the I.A.P. were in good shape. The
budget forecast for the next two years
projected a small profit. Membershipdues were paid by thirty eight Divisions
in 1998 for a total of 12067 paid-up
members.

Report from the InterCongress
Education Committee
Dr Antonio Llombart-Bosch reported on
the activities of this Comittee from 1996
- 1998. He reported that a Postgraduate

Pathology Course was held in Havana
asian Division will be Robin Cooke, thepresent Editor of the News Bulletin.
(Cuba) in December 1996. This Course
was sponsored by the Spanish Division
Other Businessand the University of Valencia. The
American Registry of Pathology donated
Dr Fenoglio-Preiser congratulated FranFascicles and other educational material.
cis Jaubert and his collaborators for theSeventy three pathologists attended theexcellent Congress they had run in
Course. Another Course was planned for
Nice (France).
December 1998. In June 1997 a PatholFlorabel G. Mullick, Secretary. I.A.P.
ogy Course was conducted in Russia.
This was sponsoredby the Russian Division and also by
the German andSpanish Divisions.
Over forty members from Russia
and other former
countries of the Soviet Union attended this Conference.
As a result of this, a
new organisation
called The International Union of Pa- Delegates from the former countries of the Soviet Union with, at far right, Antonio Llomthologist Associa- bart-Bosch from Valencia Spain, President of the Inter-Congress Education Committee and ations was estab- former President of the IAP.
lished. This organisation includes associations of pathologists from the former Soviet Union
Watch the mail for(Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Baltic Counyour IAP Membershiptries, Uzbekistan and Georgia). This orDirectory
ganisation will be holding a meeting in
Moscow December 7 - 10, 1999.
Questionnaire!
Other Divisions that have been supThe International Academy of Pathology isported by the Education Committee arepleased to announce the publication of our
the Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian,
all-new Membership Directory. This all-new
Ukraine and Chinese. The A.F.I.P.
edition will be the most up-to-date and definsponsored several Pathology Courses initive “who’s who” of 16,000 IAP members,
Spanish in various Latin Americanand will serve as an important tool for career
countries as well as in Valencia (Spain).
networking, locating former colleagues, andDr David Hardwick, a member of thisexchanging information with fellow members!
Committee reported that his University
Complete member profiles will include name;(The University of British Columbia,
primary and secondary areas of specialization;
Canada) had donated $50, 000 for acurrent job title; employer name, address, teleFaculty Member to attend educational
phone and fax numbers; up to three certificatesmeetings in China.
or degrees earned from up to three institutions
and residence address and phone. Listings will
Gold Medal of the I.A.P.
also contain a special designation to indicate if
Dr David Hardwick, the Chairman ofa member appears in the e-mail section.
the Nominating Committee announced
To make finding the information you need
the presentation of a Gold Medal of theeven easier, the directory is organized into
I.A.P. to the following: Christiansections listing members by name, primary
Nezelof (French Division) ; Adonis dearea of specialization, geographic location,
Carvalho (Brazilian Division) ; Stephen
and e-mail address.
Vogel (US & Canadian Division) ; Joe
Lee (Chinese Division)
In order to compile the most comprehensive[Further mention of this will be made inlisting of IAP members, we have contracted
the next edition of the News Bulletin]with Bernard C. Harris Publishing Company,
Inc., to produce the directory, and their 35
Reports were received from the followyears of experience and commitment to exceling: the various Vice-Presidents, thelence will make it a quality publication.
Organisers of the following International Congresses - 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002
To ensure the most complete and up-to-date
and the Editor of the News Bulletin.
information for this special publication, Harris Publishing will mail questionnaire forms
Fifteenth International Congress
to all members this winter. Please keep an eye
The Council voted to have this Conout for this form, check it for accuracy whengress in Brisbane (Australia). The Conit arrives, and return it to our Directory Pubgress organiser, on behalf of the Australlication office at your earliest convenience.

The introductionof western medicine
to JapanIn the mid 1500’s missionaries and tradersfrom Spain and Portugal arrived in Japan.
Among other things they brought with themknowledge of contemporary western medicine. However, from the early 1600’s Japan cut
itself off from the rest of the world for another
200 years. During this time the only access towestern medical knowledge came throughDutch physicians, particularly Dr Von Seibold
stationed in a segregated part of Nagasaki(see News Bulletin Volume 39, Number 1).
In 1859 a treaty was signed between the United States and Japanese governments which
opened the port of Yokohama, and therefore
Japan to international trade, and to Western
influence.
As part of this new era of openness to theworld, many physicians from the United States,
Great Britain, France, Germany came to Japanand sowed the seeds of modern medicine.
This article mentions some of the physicians
who worked in Yokohama which was the mostactive port in Japan. The government of theday under the Meiji emperor selected German medicine as the preferred model on
which to base medicine in Japan.
As a result of this decision German doctors
were appointed as teachers at the principal
universities and prospective leaders in Japanese medicine were sent to German universities for postgraduate training. One of thesestudents was Dr Tawara. He worked with
Aschoff in Marburg and wrote his doctoral
thesis on the anatomy of the conducting system of the heart with particular reference to
the AV node.
At the completion of his term in Germany hereturned to Japan to become the First Professor of Pathology at Fukuoka University.
Many postgraduate medical students went towork at Charite Hospital in Berlin with theanatomical pathologist Rudolph Virchow andwith the microbiologist Robert Koch. One of
the famous microbiologists who worked with
Robert Koch was Kitasato. Some years later
when Kitasato had become a prominent Professor in Japan, Robert Koch paid him a visit.

Dr James Curtis Hepburn (18151911)
Dr Hepburn was a busy ophthalmologist in

Clockwise from top:
Aschoff with a group of postgraduate students including Tawara;
Professor Masazumi Tseunyoshi - the fifth
professor at Fukuoka beside a memorial
recently raised to Professor Tawara, thefirst professor, in the grounds of the medical school by the graduates of 1958;
Depiction of the amputation;
Dr James Hepburn;
Dr Takeo Nagayo - a delegate to the 1998 Congress in Nice, is aliving link with the early doctors in Japan. His grandfather was apupil of Von Seibold in Nagasaki. His father, Mataro Nagayo,
was a Professor of Pathology and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
at the University of Tokyo. He himself was Professor of Pathology
in Nagoya - the city of the Congress 2000. Neither of his twochildren is a doctor, so the medical tradition will not extend into
the fourth generation;
Plaque at the entrance to the Kagoshima University Medical
School commemorating the 100th anniversary of the arrival of
Dr Willis (April 21, 1868);
Front page of Tawara’s doctoral thesis.

New York City. When Japan was opened toforeigners, he moved to Yokohama as a Presbyterian missionary. He quickly established areputation as an ophthalmologist, but he became really famous after he performed an
amputation of the leg of the popular Kabuki
actor, Sawamura Tanosuke.
Continued pg 5

Guy Périé,the current
President of
the French
Division organizedavery successful wine tastingone
evening during the Nice Congress. Tables were set
up in a large reception room in the
Acropolis Congress Centre. Wines andcheeses from all of the main wine producing areas in France were represented. These were tastefully arranged ontables around the room. The servers
were dressed in traditional costumes of
the wine areas. This helped to give atmosphere to the occasion. Each delegate
was provided with a guide to the regions
together with a table indicating how to“read” the label on the bottles. Thus it
was possible to do a mini tour of thewine regions of France. The members of
the Congress Organizing Committee
could personally recommend the wines
because they had sampled wine from adifferent region at each of their meetings during the previous 18 months.

A young lady serving wine from the Auvergne region, just east of Bordeaux.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Athens, 12 October 1998
Dear Dr Cooke

Professor Kazuaki Misugi andRobin Cooke, Editor of the News
Bulletin at a Memorial Stone in
Inamuragasaki Park overlooking
Sagami Bay and onto the Pacific
Ocean.
On a clear day, one can get a niceview of Mt Fuji looking west fromthis spot. The stone commemorates
the visit of Robert Koch to the cityof Kamakura just south of Yokohama.

I would like to mention a mistake thatwas made in the issue of the News
Bulletin of the I.A.P. (Volume 33, Number 2, 1997), in the article “The I.AP. in
Action” presenting Pathology in
Greece. More specifically, in the background map illustrating this article, theneighboring country appeared as
MACEDONIA and not FYROM (Former
Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia),
the official name of this country according to the statement of the Security
Council of the Organization of United
Nations.
As you know, Macedonia is the nameof the northern part of Greece. Since
we are very sensitive in historical issues, it would be appreciated if you
could correct this erratum in the forthcoming issue of the bulletin.
Sincerely yours, George Kontogeorgos
Secretary, Hellenic Division.

The actor continued his stage career, performing with the aid of the first artificial leg tobe used in Japan.
In 1867 Dr Hepburn and his associates published the first Japanese / English and English /Japanese dictionary. Then he completed thefirst translation of the Bible into Japanese. His
wife taught small groups of Japanese girls.
This developed into the first school in Japanfor higher education of women. Dr Hepburn
is remembered not only for his medical
deeds, but also as a leader who opened theeyes of the Japanese to modern civilisation
and western culture.

Dr Duane B. Simmons
Dr Simmons, a Reform Church missionary arrived in Japan in 1859, shortly after Dr Hepburn. Within a short time he resigned as a
missionary and developed a medical practice.
He served as physician in chief at Juzen Hospital, the first modern general hospital established by the local government and the citizens of Yokohama. As well as doing hospitalwork he engaged in public health measures
which included control of cholera epidemics
and vaccination programs. Beri beri was acommon disease and he did some research on
this condition. (Dr K. Takaki, to be mentioned
later, is credited with proposing that beri beri
was caused by a dietary defect). Dr Simmons

performed autopsies before the first official
autopsy was performed at the University ofTokyo. The Juzen Hospital later became the
Yokohama City University Hospital.
In 1880 he returned to the U.S.A. but six years
later he went back to Japan. In this period hetreated Mr Yukichi Fukuzawa, a leading philosopher and educationalist. Mr Fukuzawa thenestablished a medical facility. Dr Simmons wasinvited to be a teacher in this school. It later
became the Medical School of Keio Gijuku
University.

of Medicine of Kagoshima University. One ofhis students there was Dr Kanehiro Takaki.
Undoubtedly under the influence of Dr Willis,
Dr Takaki spent his postgraduate training
years in St Thomas’s Hospital, London. He
then returned to Japan and established the
Jikei University Medical School in Tokyo. This
University was predominantly involved with
the Navy while Tokyo University was involved
with the Army. Dr Takaki ultimately became
Surgeon General of the Imperial Naval Medi-

I.A.P. IN ACTION
Hungarian Division
Since 1997 the Division has been purchasing textbooks which could be regarded as laboratory handbooks forlaboratories in Hungary which do nothave enough money to purchase them.
In 1998 twenty such books were purchased.
During 1998 the policy of supporting
members of the Division to attend international acknowledged congresses orcourses was continued. Pathologists
who have an Abstract accepted at theCongress can apply for support to partly
cover the registration fee and travel
costs. In 1998 eleven members of theDivision were supported in this way. As
well, two delegates were supported toattend the US/CAP Annual Meeting in
Boston, and twenty three Hungarian
Pathologists attended the International
Congress in Nice.
Twelve pathologists attended the 34th
Symposium of the German Division of
the I.A.P. in Bonn from February 19 22, 1998. The German Division offereda reduced participation fee and theFoundation of Professor Vladimir
Totovic partly covered the accommodation cost of the Hungarian participants.
Professor Totovic was the longstanding
Secretary - Treasurer of the German
Division. He took a special interest in
postgraduate education, particularly for
Pathologists in former Eastern bloc
countries (Sadly, Professor Totovic diedduring 1998).
The Joint Congress of the Hungarian
Division of the I.A.P. and the Hungarian Society of Pathology was held in
Gyula in the South-East of Hungary
from August 26 - 29.
Anna Kadar
President, Hungarian Division.

Dr William Willis (1837- 1894)

cal Corps.

German Division

Dr Willis is a representative of the British influence on medicine in Japan. He had his schooling in Glasgow and graduated from Edinburgh
University, Scotland. He came to Japan in 1862
as a physician in the British consulate. He
worked as an army doctor in the Emperor’sarmy during the Civil war between the Emperor and the remaining Shoguns who had not
yet accepted the rule of the Emperor. The
British government was supporting the Emperor. He established a military hospital in Yokohama.

This article mentions only a small number of

The 34th Annual Symposium of theGerman Division was held in Bonnfrom February 20 - 22, 1998. In the last
few years there have been increasing
numbers of registrants from East Euro-

After the Meiji government adopted German
medicine as its model in 1868 Dr Willis left for
Kagoshima, Kyushu at the invitation of the local Shimaze clan. There he helped to establish
the medical school which became the School

doctors who helped influence the course of
medicine in Japan. In addition to them, many
Western physicians came to other parts of Japan as missionaries or as teachers invited by
the local lords (the former Shoguns). They allcontributed to the development of Japanese
medicine. In addition to this, they also introduced their Japanese colleagues and associates to Western culture.
Kazuaki Misugi, formerly Professor of Pathology, University of Yokohama Medical School.
Information on Professor Tawara provided byProfessor Masazumi Tseunyoshi, University of
Fukuoka, Kyushu.

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pean countries, in particular the Czech
Republic, the Ukraine, Hungary and
Slovakia.
The highlight of the Symposium was the
all-day slide seminar on “Differential Diagnosis of Pre-Neoplasias and Tumours of
the Prostate”. Six half day slide seminars
covered a variety of topics. An evening
keynote lecture on “Creutzfeldt - Jacob
Disease, Kuru and BSE” was delivered by
Wolfgang Feiden from Hamburg.
The 35th Symposium of the German
Division will be held in Bonn fromFebruary 19 - 21, 1999.
Albert Roessner
Secretary, German Division.

Indian Division
The second edition of the News Bulletin was published in July 1998. The mid
year teaching program which was aworkshop on cardiovascular pathology
was held in Mumbai on March 30 and
31. The Annual Meeting of the Division was held in Kanyakumari on December 16 1998. The First Annual
Continuing Medical Education Program of the Indian Division was held in
Pune on the 30th August, 1998 at theArmed Forces Medical College. The
topic was Liver Diseases. A large number of delegates attended.
Francisco Couto
Secretary, Indian Division.

and Urological pathology.
Further information about the Bursary,
including an application form andmore details of forthcoming meetings,
can be found on the Website of
the British Division of the IAP, at:
http://www.le.ac.uk/pa/pnf1/IAP/Iaphome.htm
Peter Furness
University of Leicester, U.K.
Phone: (+44)(0) 116 2584582
Fax: (+44)(0) 116 2584573
Email: pfurness@pathology.u-net.com.

Brazilian Division
The Brazilian Division has been co-operating closely with the Brazilian Society of
Pathology in the organisation of meetings and continuing education activities.
This co-operation has been very productive and fruitful. The Division has 446
active members who are also members ofBritish Division“An International Travel Bursary has
recently been established by the British
Division, and already the first grant has
been made - to a pathologist from Uganda.The Bursary has been set up principally to permit trainee pathologists fromless affluent countries to travel to one of
the educational meetings of the British
Division. Successful applicants are also
encouraged to spend up to two weeks
training in a laboratory while they are in
the UK or other areas covered by the
British Division, and accommodation
expenses will be provided to facilitate
this. Forthcoming educational meetings
include Breast pathology, Pulmonary
pathology, Gynaecoloogical pathology

L-R. Marcello Franco, President Brazilian Division; Dr S. Suzigan; Kash Mostofi; Dr I.A. Sesterhenn.

In 1997/1998 ten different educational
symposia and/or slide sessions were arranged. Most of these were conducted byoverseas speakers. The sessions were repeated in a number of different centres
around the country so that the largest
possible number of people could benefit
from them.
The next meeting of the Brazilian Congress of Pathology will be held in Curitiba, Parana, in June 1999.
Marcello Franco
President, Brazilian Division.

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Vol 40 No 1 1999

Meet the President
for 1999/2000
Professor Doctor Anna Kadar
Anna Kadar graduated in Medicine fromthe Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest, Hungary in 1959. She obtained
her PhD from the University in 1972 fora thesis entitled “The Morphology ofElastic Fibre Formation under Normal
and Pathological Conditions”. She obtained a DMSc from the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences in 1980 with athesis entitled “The Molecular Morphology of the Vascular Elastic Fibres”. Her
main research interest has been (a) the
pathogenesis of atherosclerosis (b) connective tissue diseases (extracellular matrix pathology - in connection with tumour pathology) and (c) ultrastructuraland molecular pathology.
She was appointed Professor of Pathology in 1982 and Director of the Second
Department of Pathology, Semmelweis
University of Medicine in 1993. From1989 to 1994 she was Associate Dean of
the Faculty and then became Directorof Foreign Students Studies.
Her longest period of study outside
Hungary was fifteen months at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in London, England. She spent shorter periods
in Paris, Bologna and Boston. Since
1990 she has been a Visiting Professor
at the Mayo Clinic on anumber of occasions. She
has published over 150
scientific publications anddone over 240 presentations at various international congresses and conferences.
Professor Kadar has held
many executive positionsin national pathology societies. She was European
Vice President of the
I.A.P. from 1990 to 1996.
She was President of thevery successful Interna-

tional Congress of the I.A.P. held in
Budapest, Hungary in 1996. At thatmeeting she became President Elect of
the I.A.P. and at the Nice Congress in1998 she became President.

Report on the International Council Meetingof the I.A.P.
Held on Sunday, October 18th
1998 in Nice, France
49 of the possible 81 international councillors attended the meeting. Also attending in a non-voting capacity wereother professional employees and advisers to the I.A.P. Secretariat.
Below: Attendees of the Council meeting with themembers of the executive in the front row.
continued page 2

LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Athens, 12 October 1998
Dear Dr Cooke

Professor Kazuaki Misugi andRobin Cooke, Editor of the News
Bulletin at a Memorial Stone in
Inamuragasaki Park overlooking
Sagami Bay and onto the Pacific
Ocean.
On a clear day, one can get a niceview of Mt Fuji looking west fromthis spot. The stone commemorates
the visit of Robert Koch to the cityof Kamakura just south of Yokohama.

I would like to mention a mistake thatwas made in the issue of the News
Bulletin of the I.A.P. (Volume 33, Number 2, 1997), in the article “The I.AP. in
Action” presenting Pathology in
Greece. More specifically, in the background map illustrating this article, theneighboring country appeared as
MACEDONIA and not FYROM (Former
Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia),
the official name of this country according to the statement of the Security
Council of the Organization of United
Nations.
As you know, Macedonia is the nameof the northern part of Greece. Since
we are very sensitive in historical issues, it would be appreciated if you
could correct this erratum in the forthcoming issue of the bulletin.
Sincerely yours, George Kontogeorgos
Secretary, Hellenic Division.

The actor continued his stage career, performing with the aid of the first artificial leg tobe used in Japan.
In 1867 Dr Hepburn and his associates published the first Japanese / English and English /Japanese dictionary. Then he completed thefirst translation of the Bible into Japanese. His
wife taught small groups of Japanese girls.
This developed into the first school in Japanfor higher education of women. Dr Hepburn
is remembered not only for his medical
deeds, but also as a leader who opened theeyes of the Japanese to modern civilisation
and western culture.

Dr Duane B. Simmons
Dr Simmons, a Reform Church missionary arrived in Japan in 1859, shortly after Dr Hepburn. Within a short time he resigned as a
missionary and developed a medical practice.
He served as physician in chief at Juzen Hospital, the first modern general hospital established by the local government and the citizens of Yokohama. As well as doing hospitalwork he engaged in public health measures
which included control of cholera epidemics
and vaccination programs. Beri beri was acommon disease and he did some research on
this condition. (Dr K. Takaki, to be mentioned
later, is credited with proposing that beri beri
was caused by a dietary defect). Dr Simmons

performed autopsies before the first official
autopsy was performed at the University ofTokyo. The Juzen Hospital later became the
Yokohama City University Hospital.
In 1880 he returned to the U.S.A. but six years
later he went back to Japan. In this period hetreated Mr Yukichi Fukuzawa, a leading philosopher and educationalist. Mr Fukuzawa thenestablished a medical facility. Dr Simmons wasinvited to be a teacher in this school. It later
became the Medical School of Keio Gijuku
University.

of Medicine of Kagoshima University. One ofhis students there was Dr Kanehiro Takaki.
Undoubtedly under the influence of Dr Willis,
Dr Takaki spent his postgraduate training
years in St Thomas’s Hospital, London. He
then returned to Japan and established the
Jikei University Medical School in Tokyo. This
University was predominantly involved with
the Navy while Tokyo University was involved
with the Army. Dr Takaki ultimately became
Surgeon General of the Imperial Naval Medi-

I.A.P. IN ACTION
Hungarian Division
Since 1997 the Division has been purchasing textbooks which could be regarded as laboratory handbooks forlaboratories in Hungary which do nothave enough money to purchase them.
In 1998 twenty such books were purchased.
During 1998 the policy of supporting
members of the Division to attend international acknowledged congresses orcourses was continued. Pathologists
who have an Abstract accepted at theCongress can apply for support to partly
cover the registration fee and travel
costs. In 1998 eleven members of theDivision were supported in this way. As
well, two delegates were supported toattend the US/CAP Annual Meeting in
Boston, and twenty three Hungarian
Pathologists attended the International
Congress in Nice.
Twelve pathologists attended the 34th
Symposium of the German Division of
the I.A.P. in Bonn from February 19 22, 1998. The German Division offereda reduced participation fee and theFoundation of Professor Vladimir
Totovic partly covered the accommodation cost of the Hungarian participants.
Professor Totovic was the longstanding
Secretary - Treasurer of the German
Division. He took a special interest in
postgraduate education, particularly for
Pathologists in former Eastern bloc
countries (Sadly, Professor Totovic diedduring 1998).
The Joint Congress of the Hungarian
Division of the I.A.P. and the Hungarian Society of Pathology was held in
Gyula in the South-East of Hungary
from August 26 - 29.
Anna Kadar
President, Hungarian Division.

Dr William Willis (1837- 1894)

cal Corps.

German Division

Dr Willis is a representative of the British influence on medicine in Japan. He had his schooling in Glasgow and graduated from Edinburgh
University, Scotland. He came to Japan in 1862
as a physician in the British consulate. He
worked as an army doctor in the Emperor’sarmy during the Civil war between the Emperor and the remaining Shoguns who had not
yet accepted the rule of the Emperor. The
British government was supporting the Emperor. He established a military hospital in Yokohama.

This article mentions only a small number of

The 34th Annual Symposium of theGerman Division was held in Bonnfrom February 20 - 22, 1998. In the last
few years there have been increasing
numbers of registrants from East Euro-

After the Meiji government adopted German
medicine as its model in 1868 Dr Willis left for
Kagoshima, Kyushu at the invitation of the local Shimaze clan. There he helped to establish
the medical school which became the School

doctors who helped influence the course of
medicine in Japan. In addition to them, many
Western physicians came to other parts of Japan as missionaries or as teachers invited by
the local lords (the former Shoguns). They allcontributed to the development of Japanese
medicine. In addition to this, they also introduced their Japanese colleagues and associates to Western culture.
Kazuaki Misugi, formerly Professor of Pathology, University of Yokohama Medical School.
Information on Professor Tawara provided byProfessor Masazumi Tseunyoshi, University of
Fukuoka, Kyushu.

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pean countries, in particular the Czech
Republic, the Ukraine, Hungary and
Slovakia.
The highlight of the Symposium was the
all-day slide seminar on “Differential Diagnosis of Pre-Neoplasias and Tumours of
the Prostate”. Six half day slide seminars
covered a variety of topics. An evening
keynote lecture on “Creutzfeldt - Jacob
Disease, Kuru and BSE” was delivered by
Wolfgang Feiden from Hamburg.
The 35th Symposium of the German
Division will be held in Bonn fromFebruary 19 - 21, 1999.
Albert Roessner
Secretary, German Division.

Indian Division
The second edition of the News Bulletin was published in July 1998. The mid
year teaching program which was aworkshop on cardiovascular pathology
was held in Mumbai on March 30 and
31. The Annual Meeting of the Division was held in Kanyakumari on December 16 1998. The First Annual
Continuing Medical Education Program of the Indian Division was held in
Pune on the 30th August, 1998 at theArmed Forces Medical College. The
topic was Liver Diseases. A large number of delegates attended.
Francisco Couto
Secretary, Indian Division.

and Urological pathology.
Further information about the Bursary,
including an application form andmore details of forthcoming meetings,
can be found on the Website of
the British Division of the IAP, at:
http://www.le.ac.uk/pa/pnf1/IAP/Iaphome.htm
Peter Furness
University of Leicester, U.K.
Phone: (+44)(0) 116 2584582
Fax: (+44)(0) 116 2584573
Email: pfurness@pathology.u-net.com.

Brazilian Division
The Brazilian Division has been co-operating closely with the Brazilian Society of
Pathology in the organisation of meetings and continuing education activities.
This co-operation has been very productive and fruitful. The Division has 446
active members who are also members ofBritish Division“An International Travel Bursary has
recently been established by the British
Division, and already the first grant has
been made - to a pathologist from Uganda.The Bursary has been set up principally to permit trainee pathologists fromless affluent countries to travel to one of
the educational meetings of the British
Division. Successful applicants are also
encouraged to spend up to two weeks
training in a laboratory while they are in
the UK or other areas covered by the
British Division, and accommodation
expenses will be provided to facilitate
this. Forthcoming educational meetings
include Breast pathology, Pulmonary
pathology, Gynaecoloogical pathology

L-R. Marcello Franco, President Brazilian Division; Dr S. Suzigan; Kash Mostofi; Dr I.A. Sesterhenn.

In 1997/1998 ten different educational
symposia and/or slide sessions were arranged. Most of these were conducted byoverseas speakers. The sessions were repeated in a number of different centres
around the country so that the largest
possible number of people could benefit
from them.
The next meeting of the Brazilian Congress of Pathology will be held in Curitiba, Parana, in June 1999.
Marcello Franco
President, Brazilian Division.

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Vol 40 No 1 1999

Meet the President
for 1999/2000
Professor Doctor Anna Kadar
Anna Kadar graduated in Medicine fromthe Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest, Hungary in 1959. She obtained
her PhD from the University in 1972 fora thesis entitled “The Morphology ofElastic Fibre Formation under Normal
and Pathological Conditions”. She obtained a DMSc from the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences in 1980 with athesis entitled “The Molecular Morphology of the Vascular Elastic Fibres”. Her
main research interest has been (a) the
pathogenesis of atherosclerosis (b) connective tissue diseases (extracellular matrix pathology - in connection with tumour pathology) and (c) ultrastructuraland molecular pathology.
She was appointed Professor of Pathology in 1982 and Director of the Second
Department of Pathology, Semmelweis
University of Medicine in 1993. From1989 to 1994 she was Associate Dean of
the Faculty and then became Directorof Foreign Students Studies.
Her longest period of study outside
Hungary was fifteen months at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in London, England. She spent shorter periods
in Paris, Bologna and Boston. Since
1990 she has been a Visiting Professor
at the Mayo Clinic on anumber of occasions. She
has published over 150
scientific publications anddone over 240 presentations at various international congresses and conferences.
Professor Kadar has held
many executive positionsin national pathology societies. She was European
Vice President of the
I.A.P. from 1990 to 1996.
She was President of thevery successful Interna-

tional Congress of the I.A.P. held in
Budapest, Hungary in 1996. At thatmeeting she became President Elect of
the I.A.P. and at the Nice Congress in1998 she became President.

Report on the International Council Meetingof the I.A.P.
Held on Sunday, October 18th
1998 in Nice, France
49 of the possible 81 international councillors attended the meeting. Also attending in a non-voting capacity wereother professional employees and advisers to the I.A.P. Secretariat.
Below: Attendees of the Council meeting with themembers of the executive in the front row.
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