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LEGACY OF SIR PATRICK MANSON.
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rally accepted that it was Manson's study of the apparently insignificant Filaria worm which led to the recogni- tion of tropical medicine as a separate science and to the elucidation of the life. story of the malacia parasite.
Many other remarkable but less sen- eational discoveries Annson made before he moved in 1969 to Hongkong where he founded a medical college, the institution which has now developed into the Hong kong University In 1801 he returned to
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the nation regards the domestic affairs, for the planter and official in the out- ried on his researches in tropical disease posts of the Empire and to gauge the and made further medical discoveries of the Royal Family with a personal in- extent to which commercial prosperity from the study of the Chinese and terest. As is usual on such auspicious ac of the Cross was made was brought has followed in the train of these dis Lastar patients who are treated in the oasions the water with which the sign hospitals of that Corporation. The year
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The great strides monde since the opening of the present century in our knowledge of the natural history of tropical discuse were mainly the direct outcome of the genius of one man-Patrick Manson.
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Thus it came about that these two years be was in charge of a small mie sionary hospital. There it was that he great men brought about the foundation made one of the most momentous dit is London and Liverpool of two schools coveries in medicine. In 1876 his re-of tropical medicine. Of the former, searches were particularly directed to which was located at the Seamen's Bos-
According to the China Express d wards the observation in the blood of his pital Society's establishment at the Chinese patients of a small blood worm Albert Dock, Manson remained, for the Telegraph, the demand for accommoda, known as Filaria. The existence of this next twenty three years until his death,tion on the trans-Siberian Railway, worm had already been noted by Dr. the leading light, and brought the Lon- which for the last two years Lewis, of Calcutta, but the significance don School of Tropical Medicine to the leaving Moscow every Saturday, and of its life history was not fathomed. To premier position which it still holds in which will now leave Moscow every collect specimens for him, Manson em this sphere of science. The students-un- Tuesday, has lately so much increased been disappointed when trying to reserve ployed two Chinese students from der his guidance made many important that several interding passengers have amongst his pupils and he noted with discoveries which included the experi- accommodation for a certain date. It curiosity that one of these two was mental proof of the mosquito malaria would be well, therefore, if prospective passengers reserved - accommodation in especially successful in obtaining by theory.
good time. pricking the finger) specimens of bloed containing these microscopic worms, Upon enquiry as to the reason for this success, Manson ascertained that the specimens were collected at night time after all the other students had left the
Speaking recently at the Annual Court hospital. None but a man of genius
of Governors of the Seamen's Hospital would have appreciated the significance Society, the Minister of Health, Mr of this fact, but Manson did; and upon Neville Chamberlain, thus appraised Manson's work: "What wonderful dis further investigation, confirmed his sus-one have arisen out of that small picions that this little worm appeared beginning! What wanderful services have in the blood at the surface of the body been rendered to humanity, and especial dering the night time only, vanishingly to white humanity! I do not think it too much to say that whole tracts of completely during the day. This di tropical territory have been reclaimed covery was fraught with most far-for habitation by the white man just as reaching significance Minute observa much as if they had been lifted from the tion revealed to Manson that this small bottom of the sea" worm was but the embryo, the young HE LEGACY OF MANSON of a more highly developed creature some
During the War the necessity of
John Henry Dearman, 42, of Lintaine fifty times its size which had its habita-specialised treatment and training in tropical medicine was fully recognised. tion in the tissues of the body. (Manson at its conclusion & generous grant made grove, Fulham, was charged at Bow-street
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It was stated that Dearman, tho waa Bancroft in Australia who gave it its the Sewer's Hospital Society to treat all its eases of tropical maladies at u name of Filaria Bancrofti),
separate branch at the Hospital for employed as carriage attendant, was sent On cooling the blood on the outside Tropical Diseases, Endsleigh Gardens, to the bank with a locked bag contain of the body, he found, that this small Enston, and a fund collected by Lording £143 and a cheque for £600. He worm escaped from the sheath or cover. Milner furthered the studies of the Lon- delivered the bag, which was returned ing in which it was contained and swam don School of Tropical Medicine which to him, locked, with £272. inside for the Lounge, Ear and Billiard Boors. Unrivall about freely like a tiny och. There was, is housed in the same building During payment of wages. He did not take the ed Cainns under the personal supervision of be argued, some object in this singular the last six years this hospital has fulaney back to the hotel, and later in the the Proprietress. behaviour which he construed as a filled a very distinct and vital purpose day the bag was found at his home with MrJoan Arthur Mobbs, managing desire on the part of the little worm to treating the many sufferers from the side cut out, escape from the body. The solution to tropical diseases who flock to London, director of the hotel company, said he did the problem was found upon the dis- In this intimate fashion the combina
Mr. Graham Campbell, the magistrato! section of mosquitoes which had fed dar. tion of a hospital with a research school not know what wages Dearman was paid. ing the night upon the blood of a man attached-was the consummation of Man Oh, yes, you do. This man says he was infected with the Filaria worm. By son's ideal which he was enabled to see entirely dependent on tip for the frst means of his primitive microscope he before his death in 1922 The London four weeks and that after that he received demonstrated that the Filaria worm, School of Tropical Medicide, the child s. a week, less his insurance. Is that living in the stomach cavity, and later of Manson's original genius and teach right don't trink so. I couldn't say piercing that organ and coming to the tug, was by an act of far-sighted im for certain
perial statesmanship incorporated in Did be live in No. surface of the body, was endeavouring 1924 with the new School of Hygiene and Do you think it right that a man, re. to enter the muscles of the mosquito. Tropical Medicine which has come into ceiying practically no wages and being In 1877 Manson announced that in fact being by the generosity of the Rocke dependent on tips should be employed in this parasite needed the agency of a
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taking these large sums to and from the Mosquito Nurse in order to pass from the body of one man into that of The Hospital and the School have a bank-No. Another. This momentous and entirely great future before them. The care of Ernest Bronner, the manager, said novel conception was received in scien- the sick and the health of the Empire are Dearman's wages were increased after a tific circles with considerable scepticism in their care. The spirit of Manson is month from 5 to 78. 6d. as he had com but, nothing disconcerted, Manson pro- alive in their midst and guides them plained that he was unable to live on his secuted his researches, isolated as he was still in the fulfilment of their work for tip from the association of other scientists or the health and prosperity of the white current scientific literature. It is now man-in tropical landasa
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