'Chirurgie van de roodharige barbaren'; Hollandse medici in Japan, 1600-1870

- Approximately 400 years ago, Dutch physicians laid the foundations for Western medicine in Japan. Around 1860, Dutch naval surgeons, trainees of the College of Army Surgeons in Utrecht, were to become the founders of the Medical Faculties at the Universities of Nagasaki, Tokyo and Osaka. The earlier Deshima-settlement surgeons Engelbert Kaempfer and Philipp Franz von Siebold played a highly important role in our knowledge of Japan during the 18th and 19th centuries.