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Definition of Sir Patrick Manson
1. Noun. Scottish physician who discovered that elephantiasis is spread by mosquitos and suggested that mosquitos also spread malaria (1844-1922).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir Patrick Manson
Literary usage of Sir Patrick Manson
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"By Sir Patrick Manson. Chicago: WT Keener & Co., 1905. TROPICAL diseases in
themselves are an interesting subject for study and an important one, ..."
2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
"Sir Patrick Manson says lymph stasis alone does not produce elephantiasis and
has demonstrated the truth of his assertion by experimental ligature of ..."
3. The Empire Review (1905)
"The teachers," as Sir Patrick Manson has put it, " are strictly honorary—their
pay is so small that the laboratory microscopes are sometimes required to see ..."
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