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1125 The Central Nervous System in the 18th Century Japanese Dissection Scrolls: Art of Observation and Dissection

2025· article· en· W4408448120 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Neevya Balasubramaniam, Rolando Del Maestro

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VenueNeurosurgery · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicNeurology and Historical Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineDissection (medical)Central nervous systemAnatomyInternal medicine

Abstract

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INTRODUCTION: In the Edo Period in Japan, Confucianism and Buddhism prohibited human dissections until 1754, when the first authorized dissection occurred. Controlled foreign travel and exchange moderated with the late 18th-century resulting in the arrival of European anatomical volumes in Japan, sparking a paradigm shift in knowledge transfer. On March 4, 1771, the physicians, Gempaku Sugita, and colleagues attended a dissection after execution in Tokyo. Sugita and Maeno each brought along the same volume on human anatomy, the Ontleedkundige Tafelen, which was then translated as Kaitai Shinsho. A remarkable aspect of the creation of Kaitai Shinsho is debunking pre-existing notions on the Central Nervous System found in Chinese treatise. METHODS: This presentation will utilize a dissection scroll of Heijiro execution from 1783, the Kakkotsu shinkeizu anatomical Codex and a Kaitai Shinsho manuscript copy in McGill’s Osler Library to compare CNS depictions in these items with illustrations in the Kaitai Shinsho to help outline the role of the how the Kaitai Shinsho changed the view on central nervous system in Japan. RESULTS: Kaitai Shinsho has changed various views of how the central nervous system is depicted. in previous chinese treaties, the forebrain portion was deemed to be emoty, furthermore the medulla extended all the way to the end of spinal cord, which Kaitai shinsho disproved. Furthermore, although the Circle of Willis was already found, the dutch translation into Japanese occludes this structure. CONCLUSIONS: The book Kaitai Shinsho had revolutionized the Central Nervous system in Japan in the 1700s which have led to better understanding of the organs which then will be used in medical education of Neuorusgery in the next decades.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.996
Threshold uncertainty score0.037

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.011
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.214 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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