Kyusaku Ogino

Kyusaku Ogino (Japanese荻 野 久 作, born March 25, 1882 in Toyohashi, † January 1, 1975 in Yorii- Cho ) was a Japanese gynecologist and obstetrician.

Life

He was born 1882 in Kyusaku Nakamura Tojohashi and adopted in 1901 by the family Ogino. Ogino was a professor of gynecology and obstetrics at Takeyama Hospital in Niigata. His name became known in the West by the based on his research Knaus - Ogino method of contraception, which he published on 20 February 1923 " Hokuetsu Medical Journal ".

In studies to infertility Ogino developed a method to estimate the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle on the basis of the length of previous cycles of women in order to increase the likelihood of conception. The Austrian Hermann Knaus developed independently by Ogino a very similar method for use as a method of contraception, which he presented at the 21st Congress of the German Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1929 in Leipzig.

Ogino turned against a use of the method as a contraceptive, as he considered the reliability too low. The propagation of this method despite the availability of other, more reliable contraception would lead to many abortions in unwanted pregnancies. Nevertheless, this method in Japan is referred to ironically as " Ogino method".

Ogino in 1966 awarded the Asahi Prize. He died in 1975 at the age of 92 years in Yorii- Cho in central Japan.

Writings (selection )

• Kyusaku Ogino ( translation Miyagawa Yonez ): Conception Period of Women. Medical Arts Publishing Company, Harrisburg, Pa. , 1934

Swell

• Biography Kjusaku Ogino in Munzinger archive
• Kyusaku Ogino and the calculation of the (un) fertile period of the female cycle - A Short Biography.

• Gynecologist, Obstetrician
• Physician ( 20th century )
• Japanese
• Born in 1882
• Died in 1975
• Man