Editing Philipp Franz von Siebold (section)

===Medical practice===
Japanese scientists invited von Siebold to teach them western science. After curing an influential local officer, Von Siebold gained the permission to leave the trade post. He used this opportunity to treat Japanese patients in the greater area around the trade post. Von Siebold is credited with the introduction of [[vaccination]] and pathological anatomy for the first time in Japan.<ref name="Odagiri-Goto">{{cite book |author=Hiroyuki Odagiri & Akira Gotō | title = Technology and Industrial Development in Japan | publisher =[[Clarendon Press]] |location=Oxford | year = 1996 | isbn = 0-19-828802-6 | page = 236}}</ref>

In 1824, von Siebold started a medical school in Nagasaki, the ''Narutaki-juku'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.grips.ac.jp/teacher/oono/hp/lecture_J/lec02.htm|title = Edo Period}}</ref> that grew into a meeting place for around fifty ''students''. They helped him in his botanical and naturalistic studies. The Dutch language became the ''[[lingua franca]]'' (common spoken language) for these academic and scholarly contacts for a generation, until the [[Meiji Restoration]].

His patients paid him in kind with a variety of objects and artifacts that would later gain historical significance. These everyday objects later became the basis of his large [[ethnography|ethnographic]] collection, which consisted of everyday household goods, [[woodblock prints]], tools and hand-crafted objects used by the Japanese people.