John Cutting Berry

That July he became the medical director of the International Hospital of Kobe,[note 1][5] where he examined poor Japanese people for free if they would listen to him read from the Bible.

[6] Berry also established a clinic for the poor in front of Ikuta Shrine in Kobe called Keisai-in (恵済院),[6] and, along with Japanese doctors, Japan's first charitable hospital, Ishi Yūshi Dokuritsu Byōin (医師有志独立病院) in Sanda.

[7] In January 1873, Berry conducted the first human dissection in the prefecture at Kobe Hospital, before an audience of 750 doctors and medical students.

[13][14] Berry obtained the permission of Home Lord Ōkubo Toshimichi to inspect the prisons in Osaka, Kyoto, Hyōgo, and Harima, and he prepared a report on the conditions within.

[16] In 1893 Berry left Japan and moved back to the U.S.,[2] where he practiced eye and ear medicine and acted as a visiting doctor for less well-funded facilities.