Introduction timely appeal for support for tropical medicine attracted the politically powerful
backing of Joseph Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and barely a year …

It is generally assumed that tropical medicine only emerged as a medical specialism in the
late nineteenth century under the aegis of men like Patrick Manson and Ronald Ross …

Abstract When Manson published" Tropical diseases: a manual of the diseases of warm
climates" in 1898, tropical medicine was a novel concept. During the century that followed …

This life of Manson is one of a series of Lives of British Men of Science" designed to provide
short but authoritative books for the student and general reader", according to the publisher's …

This superbly illustrated work provides short accounts of the lives and scientific contributions
of all of the major pioneers of Tropical Medicine. Largely biographical, the stories discussed …

Abstract In June 1866, Patrick Manson (1844–1922), newly qualified in medicine at
Aberdeen University, arrived in Formosa (Taiwan) to begin a career in the service of the …

It is customary to regard 'tropical medicine'as a product of the late nineteenth century,'its
instrument the microscope, its epistemology the germ theory of disease'. The accepted …

In 1866 Patrick Manson, a young Scottish doctor fresh from medical school, left London to
launch his career in China as a port surgeon for the Imperial Chinese Customs Service. For …

Those who are familiar with Dr. Scott's scholarly contributions to medical literature, and
particularly those who had the privilege of hearing his Fitzpatrick Lectures, have awaited his …

All who have studied tropical medicine are acquainted with this standard work, first
published in 1898 and, like Johnny Walker, still going strong. It has been the subject of some …