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

Available online

view Patrick Manson experimenting with filaria sanguinis-hominis in Amoy (Xiamen), China. Oil painting by E. Board, ca. 1912.

In copyright

It is possible this item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You may be able to use this digital item under a copyright exception, otherwise you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). These may be identified elsewhere in the catalogue record. Read more about copyright.

Read further guidance on copyright exceptions in the UK.

Credit

Patrick Manson experimenting with filaria sanguinis-hominis in Amoy (Xiamen), China. Oil painting by E. Board, ca. 1912. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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

Subjects

Where to find it

  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores

Permanent link