:Einosuke Harada
{{Infobox person
|name = Einosuke Harada
|image = Harada.JPG
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|caption = Einosuke Harada
|birth_date = February 25, 1892
|birth_place = Amakusa District Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
|death_date = December 20, 1946
|death_place = Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture
|known_for = Reported in detail a disease now called Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada syndrome
|occupation = Physician (First Internist, then Ophthalmologist), Army doctor
|nationality = Japanese
}}
{{nihongo|Einosuke Harada|原田 永之助|Harada Einosuke|February 25, 1892 – December 20, 1946}} was a Japanese ophthalmologist who reported a condition now known as Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease.
Career
He was born in Goryo, Amakusa District, Kumamoto Prefecture in 1892 and grew up in Taragi, Kuma District, and Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture. While attending the Medical Faculty, Tokyo Imperial University, he became an
army-doctor-to-be. He graduated from Tokyo University in 1917. After studying internal medicine, he entered the Department of Ophthalmology under Shinobu Ishihara in January, 1922.Recollections, Works and Poems of Dr. Einosuke Harada (1979) Minami K. Kurume City
In December 1922, he first reported "A case of acute diffuse choroiditis with retinal detachment" at a meeting of ophthalmologists in Tokyo; this work became a paper in 1926,Addentum to the clinical findings on non-suppurative chorioititis (on acute diffuse chorioiditis). Acta Societatis ophthalmologicae Japonicae, (Nihon Ganka Gakkai Zasshi), 1926, 30: 356-378. recognized for its comprehensive description of what is now known as Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease.{{cite journal |vauthors=Herbort CP, Mochizuki M |title=Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease: inquiry into the genesis of a disease name in the historical context of Switzerland and Japan |journal=Int Ophthalmol |volume=27 |issue=2–3 |pages=67–79 |year=2007 |pmid=17468832 |doi=10.1007/s10792-007-9083-4 |url=http://doc.rero.ch/record/311887/files/10792_2007_Article_9083.pdf}}
He later worked in Nagasaki with his father-in-law, who was also an ophthalmologist. In 1937, he became an army doctor; he was later stationed in the Philippines. In 1945, his office was destroyed by A-bomb. On December 20, 1946, he died of pneumonia at the age of 54.
References
- [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1229432-media e-Medicine, Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease]
- [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/595.html Whonamedit]
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Category:Japanese ophthalmologists