Olry Régis, Lellouch Alain
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, dépatement de chimie-biologie, Québec, Canada.
Hist Sci Med. 2003 Jan-Mar;37(1):89-94.
The Japanese anatomist Buntaro Adachi (1865-1945) has to be regarded as the pivotal figure of vascular anatomy of all times. His masterpiece, "Das Arteriensystem der Japaner" was published in 1928 as a result of over thirty years of research on hundreds of bodies, and it remains today a bibliographical reference that can't be ignored. However, Buntaro Adachi intended writing much more than an encyclopedia of vascular anatomy : he wanted to introduce a concept of racial anatomy, pointing out the anatomical specificities in Japanese people, probably in reaction against the Chinese and then Occidental influence on anatomical knowledge in Japan.
