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| name = Sir Patrick Manson
| image = Mason Patrick 1844-1922.jpg
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| caption = Sir Patrick Manson
| birth_date = [[1844]]
| birth_place = [[Oldmeldrum]], [[Aberdeenshire]], [[Scotland]]
| death_date = [[1922]]
| death_place = [[London]], [[England]]
| residence = {{flag|Hong Kong|1910}}<br>{{flagicon|Qing Dynasty|1862}} [[Amoy]]<br>{{flagicon|England}} [[London]]
| nationality = {{flagicon|Scotland}} [[Scotland|Scottish]]
| field = [[Parasitology]]
| work_institution = [[Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese]]<br>[[Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital]]<br>[[London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Aberdeen]]
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| known_for = Founding the discipline of [[Tropical medicine]]
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Sir '''Patrick Manson''' ([[3 October]] [[1844]] in [[Oldmeldrum]], [[Aberdeenshire]] - [[9 April]] [[1922]] in [[London]]) was a [[Great Britain|British]] [[physician]] who made important discoveries in [[parasitology]] and was the founder of the [[tropical medicine]] field.
He was the son of John Manson and Elizabeth née Blakie. He obtained the Bachelor of [[Medicine]] at the [[University of Aberdeen]] in [[1865]], his Master of [[Surgery]] in [[1866]], his Medical Doctorate and Doctor of [[Law]] in [[1886]].
Manson traveled to Formosa (Taiwan) in 1866 as a medical officer to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, where he started a lifelong career in the research of tropical medicine. After 5 years in Formosa (Taiwan), he transferred to Amoy, and worked for another 13 years.
Between [[1866]] and [[1889]] he practiced medicine in [[Hong Kong]] and in Amoy on the [[China|Chinese]] coast. He demonstrated that the [[mosquito]] was the host of the filarial worm ''[[Wuchereria bancrofti]]'', which provokes [[filariasis]]. He then suggested that the agent that causes [[malaria]] was also spread by a mosquito. This discovery was one of the most important of medical breakthroughs of the time. This hypothesis was proved by [[Ronald Ross|Sir Ronald Ross]] in 1898, who later won the Nobel Prize in 1902 for this discovery. He also demonstrated a new species of Schistosoma ([[Bilharzia]]) known as ''[[Schistosoma mansoni]]''.
He also helped establish a dairy farm in [[Pok Fu Lam]] in [[1885]] and the company [[Dairy Farm]].
Manson married in [[1876]] to Henrietta Isabella Thurbun, with whom he had three sons and one daughter. He was the founder of the [[Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese]], where [[Sun Yat-sen]] was one of his first pupils. In [[1911]] this became the [[University of Hong Kong]]. He returned to London in [[1890]] and participated at the founding in [[1899]] and later taught at the School of Tropical Medicine at the [[Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital]], today the [[London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine]]. He was elected to the [[Royal Society]] in 1900, knighted in [[1903]] and in the following year awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science by the [[University of Oxford]].
==Publications==
* ''Tropical Diseases : a Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates'' ([[1898]]);
* ''Lectures on Tropical Diseases'' ([[1905]]);
* ''Diet in the Diseases of Hot Climates'' (1908), with [[Charles Wilberforce Daniels]] (1862-1927).
==External links==
*[http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=RefNo=='EC/1900/10'&dsqCmd=Show.tcl Royal Society citation]
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|DATE OF BIRTH= [[1844]]
|PLACE OF BIRTH= [[Oldmeldrum]], [[Aberdeenshire]], [[Scotland]]
|DATE OF DEATH= [[1922]]
|PLACE OF DEATH= [[London]], [[England]]
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