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).

Exact synonyms: Manson
Generic synonyms: Doc, Doctor, Dr., Md, Medico, Physician

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir Patrick Manson

Sir Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph John Thomson
Sir Joseph Paxton
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Sir Lancelot
Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier
Sir Leonard Hutton
Sir Leonard Woolley
Sir Leslie Stephen
Sir Martin Frobisher
Sir Matthew Flinders
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
Sir Noel Pierce Coward
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge
Sir Oliver Lodge
Sir Patrick Manson (current term)
Sir Paul Gavrilovich Vinogradoff
Sir Peter Brian Medawar
Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Ustinov
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Ralph David Richardson
Sir Rex Harrison
Sir Richard Burton
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Sir Richard Owen
Sir Richrd Steele
Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler
Sir Robert Peel
Sir Robert Robinson

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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