Vaccination tools

Vaccination was carried out by pouring out the vaccine, which was stored in a glass container for portability, onto a gkass slab, making an incision in the patient's arm and implanting the vaccine into the cut. As vaccination from the West spread throughout the country in the end of the Tokugawa period, Dutch medicine became the mainstream medicine practiced in Japan, replacing Chinese kampo medicine. This trend continued onto the Meiji period.