Abstract
IN the ordinary progress of knowledge, men come and men go, each contributing according to the talents given to him, but from time to time there appears ail individual whose work signals the beginning of a new era. Such a man does not merely add his own quota to the growing stream of knowledge, but seems, by some hidden power, to unlock the waters of the well of truth so that the stream becomes a flood. Such a man was Lister, whose centenary is celebrated this year, and such, too, was Manson, who stands in the same relation to modern tropical medicine as Lister does to modern surgery. It can but add to Lister's fame that the recently published “Life and Work of Sir Patrick Manson” makes known the part that Lister played in support of Manson and Ross in their pioneer work.
The Life, and Work of Sir Patrick Manson.
By Dr. Philip H. Manson-Bahr Lieut.-Col A. Alcock. Pp. ix + 273 + 12 plates. (London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney: Cassell and Co., Ltd., 1927.) 16s. net.
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HASLAM, J. The Life, and Work of Sir Patrick Manson . Nature 120, 468–469 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120468a0
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