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DAWN OF TROPICAL "MEDICINE.

TRIBUTE TO MEMORY OF SIR P. MANSON.

The Dawn of Tropient Medicine, an account of the life and work af Br Patrick Man.on. won the subject of a lecture by Dr. P. Manson-Bahr

the London Tropical

School of Hygiene and Medicine.

Sir Harry Gonchen, who presided, referred to the death of Sir And- rew Balfour, one of Sir Patrick Manson's carllest students, him- self destined to become the direc tor of this great school which has ariarn out of Manson's first con- ception of a School of Tropical Medicine," and said they were [all "infinitely the poorer for the loga of that great-hehried mun," from the time of his appointinent to the post of Director of the Lon- don School of Hygiene and Tro. pical Medicine at the beginning of the year 1924, Andrew Balfour had worked with consuming energy and high sense of duty for the task to which he had put his hand, and it was an honour to stand ta that magnificent home of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and pay tribute to his memory. Balfour was a man of sterling character, straplicity, and directness of pur- pose, as honest and open an the day, without a trace of guile. The affection which he inspired in all ní them

indeed something wonderful, and his colleagues

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medicine. As the natural outcome

management and on the staff join-of his wonderful personality and ex- ed with his numberless friends throughout the world in a heart-ample there had arisen a new spirit felt message of sympathy to Lady in tropical medicine which he called the "Mansonian Tradition." This Balfour and his two sons.

Implied the will to serve--to serve Dr. Manson-Babr made no k- tenpl to claim that Maison dis-julents with devotion, to serve covered tropical medicine, but laid the institution to which one belong. emphasis on the fact that by his ed with unswerving loyalty, to be a work and precepts he made it a staunch, loyal, helpful friend to col

leagues, to despise petty jealousies,; new and living thing, that he was the first to elucidate the cause and and above all to serve science, the transference of many

hitherto untrammelled, pursuit of truth, with single-mindedness without obscure tropical diseases, that as a great clinician he transformed the any ulterior motive other than the specific treatment of those discases, establishment of truth as truth. and that, most certainly, he was the first to found and direct a school devoted to the teaching of tropical medicine, and thereby to render safe for colonization and develop ment many unhealthy and inhospit able countries of the British Empire and in other parts of the world. The benign influence of his discoveries, of his example, and of his life, was world wide. His discoveries in the realm of pure science alone entitled him to a place in that select com- pany which included the names of Pasteur, Lister, and Koch.

in

CHINA POLITICAL SENSATION.

RESIGNATION OF HU HAN- MIN ACCEPTED.

Nanking, Mar. 2.

It is officially reported that the Standing Committee of the Con- trai Executive Council this morn- ing decided to include among the He described Manson's work urgent measures to be discussed by the National Convention, on May 6, China leading to the idea that 存 winged insect was the disseminator the question of adoption of a pro- of disease germs, and that it was visional constitution during the an essential link in the development "political tutelage-period." pand- of those parasites without whose ing the promulgation of a per- agency it would cease entirely to manent constitution for "the con- exist, a new and startling fact institutional perfod," considering that medicine and in biology in general. this will be in strict conformity Manson's paper on the development with Dr. Sun Yat-sen's views. of Filaria Banguinis hominis and on Mr. Hu Han-min, the noted the mosquito considered as a nurse, chairman of the Legislative Yuan, published in London in 1878, and holding contrary views, has tender received with consternation tingeded his resignation, which the Com- with scepticism, proved a corner mittee has accepted. stone of tropical medicine, and en- titled him to be regarde famous man. After describing Manson's further work in China, he pointed out that his achievements

as a

were all the more remarkable as he wax working absolutely isolated from contact with other scientists For authorities and cut off from

Museums and libraries. Dealing with the period after Manson's re- turn to London he dealt with his us. Hociation with Ronald Ross. There had never been before such a close scientific collaboration, and it had. culminated in the complete vindica tion of the theory. “Mosquito | Manson," as he was the called, worked out to finality by the undying enthusiasm, persistence, ingenuity and zeal of Ronald i Ross.

Then came his association with Joseph Chamberlain, the most re- markable Colonial Secretary that the British Government had produc ed in modern times, and the founda. tion in 1899 of the London School of Tropical Medicine. Manson was the great original thinker of his time in the special department of

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Mr. Lin Sen, the Vice-President of the Legislative Yuan has been appointed President, and Mr. Shao Yunn-Chung Vice-President.

The communique adds, "Mr. Hu fan-min will remain at Nanking to assist the Government."

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The Kuomintang aplit has been growing up for some time between the civilian elements of the Kuomin- tang, headed by Hu Han-min, and the military elements, headed by Chiang Kai-shek.

The latter to-day publicly ex- pressed disapproval of Hu Han- min's attitude. charging him with insisting that the Government enrry out his own wishes as head in'a resignation has caused a body, and refusing to abide by the The acceptance of Mr, Hu Han- of the Government's legislative Sesation among the Chinese, and decision of the majority of Govern. is expected to have very important ment leaders.--Rruter.

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