Takaki Kanehiro
Japanese naval physician (1849–1920) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In this Japanese name, the surname is Takaki.
Baron Takaki Kanehiro (高木 兼寛, 30 October 1849 – 12 April 1920) was a Japanese naval physician. He is known for his work on preventing the vitamin deficiency disease beriberi among sailors in the Japanese navy, who had been living mainly on white rice.