Location Kanazawa University Museum

Medical Wallchart, Sei-i Gakko Medical School Copyright, Human Body Part Anatomical Diagram: Diagram No.3

One of the medical wallcharts used for medical education at the predecessor school of Kanazawa University School of Medicine. This item depicts in detail the muscles, veins and nerves of the elbow of the right arm. The Sei-i Gakko, Medical School was the predecessor of the current the Jikei University School of Medicine, and was founded in 1881 as the Sei-i kwai Training School, and from 1890 to 1891 it was known as the Sei-i Gakko Medical School. In other words, this item is a lithograph anatomical diagram created in Japan in the late 1880s to early 1990s, and is valuable in terms of not only the history of medical education but also the history of printing technology. This wallchart was printed by Taikindo Sekiin, a printing company established in 1885 in Motosukiya-cho, Kyobashi, Tokyo (present day Ginza 5-chome). The company was also named Tokyo Shueisha Sekiin, prior to becoming the current Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

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