Imperial Medicine Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease Douglas M. Haynes "Imperial Medicine makes a major contribution. . . . It effectively situates Manson in two very different professional and political locations--China and London--and makes informative connections between the filarial and malarial stages of his career."--Victorian Studies In 1866 Patrick Manson, a young Scottish doctor fresh from medical school, left London to launch his career in China as a port surgeon for the Imperial Chinese Customs Service. For the next two decades, he served in this...