Papers of Sir Ronald Ross, (1857-1932), surgeon 1874-1939

Ross Institute London England

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Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases

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Manson, Patrick, Sir, 1844-1922

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Patrick Manson was born in 1844 and studied medicine at Aberdeen University, passing M.B. and C.M. in 1865. In 1866 he became medical officer of Formosa (Taiwan) for the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, moving to Amoy in 1871. His light duties allowed him to work in local missionary hospitals, in contact with Chinese patients and their diseases and he became aware of the shortcomings of British medical training when faced with tropical diseases. While working on elephantoid diseas...

Sir Ronald Ross, 1857-1932

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Sir Ronald Ross was born in India in 1857. He completed his medical studies in London in 1881 and returned to India as a surgeon in the Indian Medical Service. Ross began his study of malaria in 1892 and between 1897 and 1898 he verified the causal link between the life cycle of the mosquito and malaria. In 1899, he joined the staff of the recently established Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases and three years later received the Nobel Prize for medicine. He was knighted in 1910. ...

Ross Sir Ronald 1857-1932

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