Patrick Manson experimenting with filaria sanguinis-hominis in Amoy (Xiamen), China. Oil painting by E. Board, ca. 1912.
- Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
- Date:
- 1912
- Reference:
- 2087i
- Pictures
- Online
About this work
Description
In 1876-1877 Manson persuaded his gardener, who was infected with filariae, to allow himself to be fed on by the mosquito culex fatigans. By dissecting the mosquitos, Manson discovered in them the embryo worm called filaria sanguinis hominis, and thus proved for the first time the involvement of an arthropod (the mosquito) in the life-cycle of a parasite
Publication/Creation
1912
Physical description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 60.3 x 91 cm
Contributors
Related material
Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/15/30
Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/78/93
Reference
Wellcome Collection 2087i
References note
Douglas M. Haynes, Imperial medicine: Patrick Manson and the conquest of tropical disease, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001
Creator/production credits
Commissioned by Henry S. Wellcome for the Wellcome Gallery of Portraits, 1912
Exhibitions note
Exhibited in the Reading Room at Wellcome Collection, 26 March - 4 November 2018
Type/Technique
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores