Difference between revisions of "Narabayashi Soken"
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- Other Names: 高房 (Takafusa)
- Japanese: 楢林宗建 (Narabayashi Souken)
Narabayashi Sôken was a court physician in service to Saga han. In 1850, he used Western medical techniques to implement a smallpox vaccine. Seeing the success of this method, lord Nabeshima Narimasa had vaccines administered widely throughout the domain.