1. Patrick Manson graduated from the University of Aberdeen with degrees in Master of Surgery, Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Law.
30 Facts About Patrick Manson
1. 2.
Patrick Manson discovered that filariasis in humans is transmitted by mosquitoes.
3.
Patrick Manson eventually became the first President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
4.
Patrick Manson was a son of Alexander Manson and Elizabeth Livingstone Blaikie, born at Oldmeldrum, eighteen miles north of Aberdeen.
5.
Patrick Manson's father was manager of the local branch of the British Linen Bank and Laird of Fingask.
6.
Patrick Manson's mother was distant relative of the famed Christian missionary-explorer David Livingstone.
7.
Patrick Manson was the second son of a family of three boys and four girls.
8.
Patrick Manson developed a childhood passion in natural history, fishing, shooting, carpentry, mechanics and cricket.
9.
Patrick Manson was only nineteen and was underage for graduation, so he visited hospitals, museums and medical schools in London.
10.
Patrick Manson performed 17 postmortem dissections on patients with psychiatric illnesses for his thesis.
11.
Patrick Manson was inspired by his elder brother, David Manson, who worked in Shanghai in medical service, to join medical officer post in the Customs Service of Formosa.
12.
Patrick Manson traveled to Formosa in 1866 as a medical officer to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, where he started a long career in the research of tropical medicine.
13.
Patrick Manson attended to Chinese patients in a local missionary hospital where he was exposed to a wide variety of tropical diseases for his postgraduate training without any supervision.
14.
Patrick Manson's only research tool was a combination of clinical skill, hand lens and good record keeping.
15.
Patrick Manson was in good terms with the native Chinese, learning Mandarin and befriending them.
16.
Patrick Manson spent his early years researching filaria.
17.
Patrick Manson focused his time on searching for filaria in blood taken from his patients.
18.
Patrick Manson conducted experiments on his gardener, Hin Lo, who was infected with filaria.
19.
Patrick Manson would get mosquitoes to feed on his blood while he slept and then dissect the mosquitoes filled with Hin Lo's blood.
20.
Patrick Manson observed that filaria only developed as far as an embryo within the human blood and that the mosquito must have a role in the life cycle.
21.
The subsequent correspondence between Ross and Patrick Manson is documented as one of the most legendary collaborations in the history of medicine.
22.
Patrick Manson's theory was finally proved by Ross in 1898 who described the full life cycle of the malarial parasite inside the female mosquito.
23.
Patrick Manson demonstrated a new species of Schistosoma known as Schistosoma mansoni.
24.
Patrick Manson was the first to import cows from his native Scotland to Hong Kong and thus establish a dairy farm in Pok Fu Lam in 1885 and the company Dairy Farm in Hong Kong.
25.
Patrick Manson was the founder of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, where Sun Yat-sen was one of his first pupils.
26.
In 1896, through his contacts at the Foreign Office, Patrick Manson managed to secure the release of Sun after he had been kidnapped in London by Chinese officials.
27.
Patrick Manson returned to London in 1889, and settled at 21 Queen Anne Street, W1.
28.
Patrick Manson became Physician at the Seamen's Hospital Society in 1892 and Lecturer on Tropical Diseases in St George's Hospital.
29.
Patrick Manson was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1900 New Year Honours list on 1 January 1900, and was invested by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle on 1 March 1900.
30.
Patrick Manson died on 9 April 1922 after having a heart attack.