Wilkinson L, Power H
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, Wellcome Trust, London, UK.
Br Med Bull. 1998;54(2):281-92. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a011688.
In June 1866, Patrick Manson (1844-1922), newly qualified in medicine at Aberdeen University, arrived in Formosa (Taiwan) to begin a career in the service of the Chinese Imperial Maritime customs. His five years there, and subsequently at Amoy on the Chinese mainland, set in train a sequence of events that has been called 'the birth of the science of tropical medicine'. For it was there that Manson began his solitary painstaking studies of the filarial larvae of elephantiasis, and of mosquitoes transmitting filarial infections. It was there that he first realised and acknowledged his own shortcomings in diagnosing and treating the 'tropical diseases' affecting his Chinese patients. These shortcomings were shared by many British colleagues, sent to outposts of the Empire, with no formal knowledge of diseases of hot climates, which did not then form part of the curriculum in British medical schools.
1866年6月，刚在阿伯丁大学获得医学资格的帕特里克·曼森（1844 - 1922）抵达福尔摩沙（台湾），开始在中国帝国海关任职。他在那里的五年，以及随后在中国大陆厦门的日子，引发了一系列被称为“热带医学科学诞生”的事件。因为正是在那里，曼森开始独自艰苦地研究象皮病的丝虫幼虫，以及传播丝虫感染的蚊子。也正是在那里，他首次意识到并承认自己在诊断和治疗影响中国患者的“热带疾病”方面存在不足。许多被派往帝国前哨、对炎热气候疾病没有正规知识的英国同事也有这些不足，当时这些疾病并不在英国医学院的课程范围内。
