[The beast in the mosquito] : : [the correspondence of Ronald Ross and Patrick Manson] / / W. F. Bynum and Caroline Overy.

• Superior document: Clio medica ; 51
• VerfasserIn: Bynum, W. F. 1943-; Overy, Caroline,
• TeilnehmendeR: Overy, Caroline,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : [Brill],, [1998]
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 51.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxv, 528 pages) :; maps, portraits, facsimiles.
• Other title: Letter 1 /; Letter 2 02/064 /; Letter 3 02/065 /; Letter 4 02/066 /; Letter 5 02/067 /; Letter 6 02/068 /; Letter 7 02/003 /; Letter 8 02/069 /; Letter 9 02/302 {postcard} /; Letter 10 02/070 /; Letter 11 02/004 /; Letter 12 02/071 /; Letter 13 02/005 /; Letter 14 02/072 /; Letter 15 02/073 /; Letter 16 02/006 /; Letter 17 02/074 /; Letter 18 02/075 /; Letter 19 02/007 /; Letter 20 02/076 /; Letter 21 02/077 /; Letter 22 02/078 /; Letter 23 02/008 /; Letter 24a /; Letter 24 02/079 /; Letter 25 02/009 /; Letter 26 02/080 /; Letter 27 02/010 /; Letter 28 02/081 /; Letter 29 02/360 /; Letter 30 02/082 /; Letter 31 02/083 /; Letter 32 02/011 /; Letter 33 02/084 /; Letter 34 02/012 /; Letter 35 02/086 /; Letter 36 02/013 /; Letter 37 02/087 /; Letter 38 02/014 /; Letter 39 02/015 /; Letter 40 02/088 /; Letter 41 02/089 /; Letter 42 02/016 /; Letter 43 02/090 /; Letter 44 02/017 /; Letter 45 02/091 /; Letter 46 02/092 /; Letter 47 02/093 /; Letter 48 02/018 /; Letter 49 02/094 /; Letter 50 02/095 /; Letter 51 02/096 /; Letter 52 02/097 /; Letter 53 02/019 /; Letter 54 02/098 /; Letter 55 02/099 /; Letter 56 02/100 /; Letter 57 02/020 /; Letter 58 02/101 /; Letter 59 02/021 /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004333371
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: W. F. Bynum and Caroline Overy.

The correspondence between Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and Sir Patrick Manson (1844-1922) is rich in both scientific and human terms. It records, in great detail, Ross's research in India between 1895 and 1899, which elucidated the role of mosquitoes in the transmission of malaria, work for which Ross was awarded the 1902 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology. Ross described the mosquito-transmission theory as Manson's 'Grand Induction', and he had returned to India, where he was an officer in the Indian Medical Service, having been primed by Manson. Ross's regular letters to his mentor document the frustrations and false trails as well as the excitement of discovery. Manson in turn acted as a kind of agent in London, publicising his findings, offering advice and seeking to use his influence to secure for Ross the working conditions he so desired. These 173 letters, plus 85 from the two decades after Ross's return to Britain also record the rise and full of a relationship, as Ross's preoccupation with his place in the history of malariology led to a breach between the two men. Themes of priority, nationalism, and personal vanity punctuate this latter correspondence, which also reveals new insights about the golden years of tropical medicine. Ross included some of the correspondence in his Memoirs , but most of it appears here, fully annotated, for the first time.