biography
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Manson, Sir Patrick
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nickname Mosquito Manson
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1844–1922)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland, UK. He practised medicine in China (1871), and in Hong Kong (1883) started a school of medicine that became the University of Hong Kong. He became medical adviser to the Colonial Office, and in 1899 helped to found the London School of Tropical Medicine. He received his nickname from his pioneer work with Sir Ronald Ross, being the first to argue that the mosquito was host to the malaria parasite (1877). |
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