Patrick Manson

Patrick Manson ( born October 3, 1844 in Oldmeldrum / Aberdeenshire, † April 9, 1922 in London) was a Scottish physician. He is considered one of the founders of modern tropical medicine.

Life and work

Manson was the son of a bank branch manager and grew up in the North East of Scotland, in the county of Aberdeenshire. He studied medicine at Aberdeen University and received the Bachelor of Medicine, 1865. According to the award of Master of Surgery in 1866 Manson traveled as a doctor on behalf of the British colonial administration to Formosa (now Taiwan). From 1871 to 1883 he was a medical officer in the British Imperial Chinese Customs Service in Amoy, a port city in southern China. Then he practiced until 1889 in his own practice in Hong Kong, where in 1887 he a medical school and a medical company co-founded. From the Medical School in 1910 developed the University of Hong Kong.

Manson returned in 1889 to London. After first private practice leadership appointed him the colonial administration in 1897 to their medical experts ( Medical Advisor ). He addressed promptly convene a tropical medicine department at the Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital, from 1899, the London School of Tropical Medicine (now the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine ) was the oldest Tropical Institute.

Manson has first deal in China with the causes of elephantiasis. He found in lymph nodes of patients threadlike worms ( Wuchereria bancrofti ), he was also able to identify in mosquitoes. Thus, an insect was identified as carriers of infectious disease for the first time. Manson then postulated that in the case of malaria, a mosquito is also responsible for the transmission of the pathogen, which Ronald Ross in 1898 verified. Manson discovered beyond the causative agent of schistosomiasis, which was named after him Schistosoma mansoni. Likewise, he discovered the parasite Bothriocephalus mansoni

Manson became the first professor of tropical medicine at St. George and Charing Cross Hospital, London, and in 1900 a member of the Royal Society. He is considered one of the founders of modern Tropical Medicine for his work in the field of tropical parasitology. His textbook is still continued under the name of Manson 's Tropical Diseases as a standard work of the subject.

Works (selection)

  • On the Nature and signifiance of the flagellated body in malarial Blood. Brit. Med Journ, 1894.
  • Tropical Diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates. London 1898.
  • Lectures on Tropical Diseases. London 1905.

Swell

  • Chernin E. Sir Patrick Manson: physician to the Colonial Office, 1897-1912. . Hist Med, 1992, 36 (3): pp. 320-331, PMID 1518344, PMC 1036591 (Free full text ).
  • L. Wilkinson: AJE Terzi and LW Sambon: early Italian Influences on Patrick Manson 's " Tropical medicine", entomology, and the art of entomological illustration in London. Hist Med, 2002, 46 (4):. Pp. 569-579, PMID 12408096, PMC 1044565 (Free full text ).
  • Gordon C. Cook: Tropical Medicine: An illustrated history of the pioneers. London ( Elsevier ) 2007, ISBN 978-0-12-373991-9, pp. 51-66.
  • Gordon C. Cook, Alimuddin I. Zumla (ed.): Manson 's Tropical Diseases. 21st edition. London 2002, ISBN 0,702,026,409th
  • Tropical medicine
  • Parasitologist
  • Person ( University of Hong Kong )
  • Physician (19th century)
  • Physician ( 20th century )
  • Briton
  • Scotsman
  • Born in 1844
  • Died in 1922
  • Man
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