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Sir Patrick Manson.
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John Manson, of Fingask,
mar
Elizabeth Blaikie
[bapt 2nd Mar 1822, descendant of
Robert III, King of Scotland
and of
Henry I
],
had issue:
Sir Patrick Manson
, FRS, born 3 October 1844,
physician who made important discoveries in parasitology, founder of the tropical medicine field,
he suggested that the agent that causes
malaria
is spread by the mosquito,
he discovered new species of the flatworm that causes
Schistosomiasis
, species of flatworm now called
Schistosoma mansoni
,
founded the
London School of Tropical Medicine
,
died 9 April 1922, age 77 yrs.
There is a plaque to him on the
Cruickshank Building
of the University of Aberdeen, in the
Cruickshank Botanic Garden
, Aberdeen (see
map
).
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