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

“ From master bleeder to European physician ” : medicine , science , and colonial difference in the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco ( 1912 - 1956 ) *

History of Science Studies Centre (CEHIC), Faculty of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona. 08193-Bellaterra (Barcelona, Spain). E-mail: [email protected] MOLERO-MESA, J.: “From master bleeder to European physician”: medicine, science, and colonial difference in the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco (1912-1956). História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, v. 13, n. 2, p. 77-94, Apr.-June ...

The Late Sir Patrick Manson : Then and Now

round of a general practice in the tropics, was soon called to many and curious cases of unexplained disease. A Chinese clerk, suffering from dropsy from head to foot and with a failing heart, consulted him. Thinking the case was one of cardiac disease Manson prescribed cardiac stimulants. The next day the patient was dead. Some years later he came across cases of what was apparently locomotor ...

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...

Two Ross-Manson Letters

The full story of Sir Ronald Ross' ever memorable discovery with regard to the transmission of malaria is ?old in his Memoirs, a book which every research worker in medicine should read. The Memoirs. however, are now being supplemented by publication of (he original letters and documents concerned, by the Ross Institute. As only one of the above four publications is marked with a price, we take...