BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Patrick Manson Medal, the original plaster model for the obv. of the medal by J.R. Pinches, bust right, 240mm (MJP p.183). Extremely fine and as made, UNIQUE; set in wooden frame, 41cm square £150-200

Sir Patrick Manson, GCMG, FRS (1844-1922), b Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire and the son of John Manson, manager of the British Linen Bank branch in Old Meldrum, studied medicine in Aberdeen before travelling to Formosa in 1866 as a medical officer to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, where he started a lifelong career in the research of tropical medicine. Transferring to Amoy in 1871 and Hong Kong in 1883, his research majored on the role of mosquitos and the spread of disease and by the mid-1890s and back in London, he was able to prove that the agent which causes malaria was spread by mosquitoes. In the first decade of the 20th century he received multiple honours and awards and he was the first president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene