The Late Sir Patrick Manson : Then and Now

Sir Patrick Manson: good medicine for the people of Hong Kong.

Born on 3 October 1844 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Sir Patrick Manson (Fig) was the second child in a family with nine children. After an attempt at an ironmaster’s apprenticeship failed due to illness, Manson focused his attention on medicine, graduating from Aberdeen University, with the degrees MB, CM, and MD in 1865 and 1866. Soon after qualification, he became a medical officer and worked ...

Manson's Tropical Diseases

Tropical Diseases.-By Sir Patrick Manson, v'r MO M D. Fourth Edition, thoroughly Revised ^ enlarged. PPp 876a Price 12, 6c*. net. London : Cassell & Co. August 1907. Manson's Tropical Diseases is one of the most successful medical books published within the present generation. The First Edition, which beared in May 1898, was good and every successive edition has been better; till now, witinn te...

The Three Days Fever of Chitral *For the name of this yet unclassified fever I am indebted to a suggestion of Sir Patrick Manson. R. M'C.

Review of "A Review Reviewed"

that the practice is usually unprofitable; it is to he regietted that his knowledge of this truth dul not teach him prudence enough not again to attract attention to a history of malaria which will pass without censure, only when it passes without observation. To this I shall refer again, but first I must deal with Major Ross's remarks on the statements relating to Sir Patrick Manson. Major Ros...

Sir Patrick Manson: physician to the Colonial Office, 1897-1912.

In 1897 Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, appointed Patrick Manson (1844-1922) Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office.' Manson's assumption of that post opened the last fifteen years of his already notable professional life. His primary charge as Medical Adviser was not, as is commonly thought, to advise on policy matters; Manson's main, ifsomewhat less exalted, responsib...