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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1933, HONG KONG UNIVERSITY SUPPLEMENT

The Origin of the University

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SIR PATRICK MANSON AND the SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

PROFESSOR GERRARD'S TRIBUTE

How did the idea of founding a University at Hong Kong originate?. No doubt many people thought of it; and advacated such a step. But in the opinion of Professor W. 1. Gerrard, the pre- sent head of the Medical Faculty, that great scientist, Sir Patrick Mansion, deserves more credit than any other individual for the founding of the institution, whose coming of age la celebrated to- day.. On March 3, Isefuring to the medical school of the University, Professor Gerrard gave an interesting, outline of Mansion's work and a notable tribute to his achievements.

FRIENDSHIP WITH DR. SUN YAT SEN

Professor Gerrard said in Part. Ladies and Gentlemen:

milk.

then it was stated that owing to the benevolent attitude of Viceroy Li Hung Chang "within the sacréd. precincts of the Emperor's palace European Medicine is welcomed and appreciated in the person of ons o the graduates of the College of Modicidă în Tientsin."

This first graduation was an out- standing event because one of the two graduates was Dr. Sun Yat Son who had passed his examina tions with distinction, According to Manson and Dr. James Cantlie (afterwards Sir James Chntiie) Dr. Sun Yat Sen was an excellent sur. geon and practised for a short time in Macao. Dr. Cantlio, used to go there to assist his former pupil In difficult operations. Cantlie writes as follows: "Why did I journey to Macao to help this man? For the reason, that others have fought for and died, for him because .,E loved him and respected, him. He has a nature that draws. men's: re- gard and makes them ready to sarva him at the operating table or on the battlefield: an unexplainable influence, a magnetism which pre- vaileth and finds its expression in attracting men to his side.

You may all know how fortunate it was admiration of both Manson, and that Sun Yat Sén, had gained the Cantlie because their help was in- stumental in securing his feleaas when he was kidnapped by his own countrymen in the Chinese, Logation in Londen. Had Manson and Cant- Lio failed to bring about their friend's release Sun Yat Sen would most have been assassinated.

a hygienist in the widest sense as is shown by the fact that he took This ovening I make no apologies the leading part in the establish for the title of my paper. We are ment of the present Hong Kong on the eve of the 21st birthday of Dairy Farm. In those days he this University and Manson was pointed out that the milk supply really the founder of our School

of a community is second in im- of Medicine without which I ven- The aim was not to supply milk portance only to its water supply, ture to suggest there would have been no University of Hong Kong. luxury for the well-to-do but Manson was born in Scotland in that fresh milk might become 1844. Neither at School nor Uni- widely used as food for the poor versity did he win any prizes. Her classes. It is hoped that all was evidently above the common run

appreciate the great boon of a con- however because we find him, when tinuous and safe supply of fresh quite young, deeply interested in

Let us pass now to what was a tapeworm he found while investi- gating the internal parts of a dead Manson's most eminent Public Ser

Annual, Government Grant..... vics in this Colony, namely that in: cat.. Soon after graduating he

From 1902 onwards the Hong left England and came to Formosa the cause of Medical Education. In Kong Medical College obtained an where he was Medical Officer to the Amoy he had striven manfully annual Government grant to help Chinese Imperial Customs Service against opposition in that direct along. In 1907, under the patron then under Sir Robert Hart who tion. In Hong Kong he found more recruited most of his medical offi- scope and right well did he use

his opportunity. cers from Scotland. On his way out to the Far East Manson visit ed Madagascar and thers first came in contact with indigenous tropical disease. In Hospital there he saw cases suffering from cardiac disease

In 1845 a few medical practition one day and was astonished to see these same cases up and about the ers, formed a China Medical and next day they were, we now know,sident was one, Dr. Tucker who at Chirurgical Society. The first Pre- cases of Beri Beri

to forget that others before Men- It would scarcely be fair howeve sion's time had foreseen the great possibilities of developing medical education in Hong Kong.

that time expressed the hope that a medical school would soon be for- death resulted in a dissolution of med. Unfortunately his untimely the Society.

age of Sir M. Nathan the name was altered to the Hong Kong College

might be admitted. At that time of nationalities other than Chinese of Medicine to signify that studenta

the College had to use makeshifts to make good its somewhat anoma

lous circumstances. It had to bor. (Continued on page 13).

THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE

(Continued from Page 9).

Mission Hospital at Amoy, Manson left Formosa after a stay of 5 years and then moved to Amoy in 1871 where he remained for

In June 1844 one, Dr. Hobson, several years. He worked in a Mission Hospital there and in these opened a Missionary Hospital and early days of his career on finds be strongly advocated the cause of evidence of his initiative and great of funds he had to abandon the three years, but now that this is medical education. Owing to lack ambition to extend facilities for formation of a proposed mediu progressing steadily the Head of tho medical education. Manson was school. honest and outspoken, qualities not |

Things remained dormant Department hopes to be able to appreciated by some of the Com- until Manson threw his energy int: turn his attention to Ecology and

Bionomies in the next year or so. munity in Amoy and as a result

Dr. Herklota visited Lingnam he soon came up against a type of individual who made trouble" that:

University, Canton, in February, threatened to wreck his scheme of His first notable achievement in of Agriculture and gave a lecture 1931, as the guest of the Professor medical education.

the Colony then was the founding of a new Medical Society of which to the Biological staff and senior he became the first President. Ha students. In June he visited commenced Medical teaching at the Shanghai, Peiping and Nanking and Alice Memorial Hospital. Very

many a number of the leading Chi- nese biologists, In July he attend-

the scheme..

Medical Education.

In face of all difficulties in Amoy Manson's pupils did succeed and settle down in different parts of the country in spite of the grievances of Manson's enemies: as Munson soon be so inspired the community ed the Chinese. Marine Biology

had intended his pupils spread what had been taught them.

We know that Manson's benign sympathy in his work must have resulted in very great spiritual in- fluence. He possessed in the fullest degree one of the great qualities necessary for the successful doctor, namely a love of humanity.

In Hong Kong.

both official and unofficial that from his small preliminary endea- Summer School at Amoy Univer- yours a very much more far reach Bity, where, with the aid of his two ing scheme gradually developed. He Chinese collectors from Hong Kong, was the prime mover in the founda. he carried out a Bryological survey tion of the Hong Kong Medical of the island. The mosses have College the precursor of the pre- been named by Mr. H. N. Dixon, sent medical school and of the ex- England's leading authority on the isting University. In those days group, and have proved of interest the Hong Kong Medical College in several respects. In August he had as Patron the Viceroy Li Hung paid a visit to the Forestry School In 1883 Manson left Amoy for Chang who had the greatest ad at Los Banos, Philippine Islands Hong Kong. For many years Hong miration for Manson and his and made a collection of Bryophyta Kong had been looked on solely as achievements. The great man of which was sent to England for de- the centre and distributor of mer-China gave his influential support termination, chandise but due to Manson's fore- and wrote "There is no doubt that No doubt the time and energy sight it has now become a distribu- when your admirable project is spent by Dr. Herklots in studying tor of Science, It, may be that in achieved it will be appreciated and the land and marine fauna in Hong the future the Commercial faine of imitated and that it will, through Kong and elsewhere, even if it Hong Kong will wane but it is cer- your students, be a blessing to amounts to specialiem, has been re- tain that her importance and fame China."

flected in the hard work and enthu- as & csutre for Science will slowly

siasm of the students. In Novem- but surely increase,

ber; 1931, 37 students attended the

First Graduation.

Here in Hong Kong we have The first graduation.coremony of classes in Biology, Twenty-two striking evidence that Manson was the Hong Kong College of Medi- entered the examinations and fiftéan not a one-sided scientist. He was cine was held on July 1893 and passed.

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