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was connected to malnutrition, and the founder of Japan's first private medical college. During the unsettled years at the end of the
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and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University with a thesis on the "Theory of Ulceration". He then worked at the
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Respect and Consideration: Britain in Japan 1853-1868 and Beyond, John W. Denney, Radiance Press, 2011, pp. 116, 443
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According to Satow, Willis was unusually tall at 190.5 cm, and weighed 127 kg.
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In 1870, Willis resigned to become head of the hospital and medical school in
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In 1885, Willis was appointed, on the recommendation of his good friend
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in May 1862 to begin his duties as medical officer and clerk under Sir
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This article is about the physician. For other uses of this name, see
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Medical Journal of Kagoshima University, Supplement 1, August 1995.
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in 1837. In 1855 he was enrolled at the faculty of medicine in the
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Respect and Consideration: Britain in Japan 1853–1868 and beyond
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Willis was later appointed professor and clinical chief of the
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Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji-period Japan
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Dr. Willis in Japan, 1862–1877: British medical pioneer
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and the king's brother, returning to England in 1892.
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Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
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William Willis (disambiguation)

Ireland
Fermanagh
Florencecourt
Foreign advisor
Meiji
Japan
FRCS
Maguiresbridge
County Fermanagh
Ireland
University of Glasgow
Scotland
University of Edinburgh
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Middlesex Hospital
London
Japan
Edo
Harry Smith Parkes
Yokohama
Charles Lennox Richardson
death
Shimazu Hisamitsu
Takaki Kanehiro
beriberi
Tokugawa bakufu
Meiji Restoration
Namamugi Incident

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