Noguchi
HIDEYO, Japanese_physician; born in Inawashiro, Yama, Fukushima, in 1876. He was educated in the public schools of Japan, and was taught French, English, German, and Chinese under private tutors. He graduated from Tokyo Medical College in 1897, and studied at the University of Pennsylvania 1901-1903, later studying a year at the Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen. In 1904 he became connected with the Rockefeller Institute, New York. He has brought about the cultivation of syphilitic organisms, demonstrated treponema pallidum in paresis and locomotor ataxia, instituted the skin test for syphilis, and has made similar contributions to medical science. ern and southern Asia. The vast regions of Mongolia are inhabited by nations which still retain their wandering habits.