After the initial treatment with traditional Chinese medicine, Ogino found solid help in doctor Shochu Sato, who instead treated her with Western medicine. Ogino was stunned by these innovative treatments, and became increasingly interested in Western medicine as it was based on observation and pragmatism, which was an extremely distant concept from Chinese medicine. For example, human dissections able to give a more detailed explanation and a more precise investigation of the human body, would have never been admitted by the more traditional Oriental medicine.
