Kodansha: Dr. Noguchi's Journey - A Life of Medical Search and Discovery
The story of Hideyo Noguchi's rise from poor farm boy to famous medical pioneer is a true rags-to-riches story...Noguchi's extraordinary drive and academic talent propelled him through the hidebound medical training establishment of his own country at record speed, and on to America, to seek his fortune. This too he eventually achieved, thanks to the breakthroughs he made in bacteriological research at the Rockefeller Institute, which included isolating the agent that causes syphilis. His work on other diseases, especially yellow fever, took him as far afield as Ecuador and West Africa, and it was in tropical Africa, doing field research, that he contracted the disease that killed him in his early fifties.
