Background
Otis Frederick Manson was born on October 10, 1822 in Richmond, Virginia. He was the son of Otis Manson and Sarah Dews (Ferrill). His father, a skilled architect, came from a Massachusetts family which had emigrated from Glamis, Scotland.
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Catalogue of the Medical Library of the Late Prof. Otis Frederick Manson, M. D., Of Richmond, Va (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Medical Library of the Late Prof. Otis Frederick Manson, M. D., Of Richmond, Va Sump Fieber. 8vo. Half mor. Leipzig. 1829. Em. E. Sawyer on Fever. 12mo. Cloth. New York. 1831. Johann Heinrich Paul Bottchen. Kalte Rieber. 12mo. Half mor. Hamburg. 1831. -raymond Fauve. Des Fievres Intermittentes et Continues. 8vc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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A Treatise on the Physiological and Therapeutic Action: Of the Sulphate of Quinine (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Physiological and Therapeutic Action: Of the Sulphate of Quinine Although nearly two-thirds of a century 'has elapsed since the introduction of quinine into the materia medica, yet perhaps there is no agent in its vast catalogue concerning whose properties such opposite opmi'ofiéffie 14116151, or which has elicited more dlscussmndmyyhemwe reflect on the facts that its 'emp i has been co-extensive with that numero of diseases known as Periodical Fever? And;l the protean maladies con it has been the subject filbfifdexperiment and study among the most distinguished physicians of the age, it is a matter of surprise that no positive and generally recognized opinion should have been established in regard to its powers, properties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Otis Frederick Manson
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Manson attended the public schools of his native city and was graduated in 1840 from the medical department of Hampden-Sidney College, later called the Medical College of Virginia. Shortly after his graduation he settled in Granville County, North Carolina, for the practice of his profession.
Career
In Granville County he resided for more than twenty years, building up a large practice and extending his reputation over the state. The neighborhood was highly malarious and Manson was continually being faced with the problems of this disease. In 1857 he presented to the state society a paper on "Malarial Pneumonia" which aroused a controversy that filled the pages of the North Carolina Medical Journal for the two following years. Other notable works in this field, published much later, include Remittent Fever (1881), Physiological and Therapeutic Action of Sulphate of Quinine (1882), and Malarial Hematuria (1886). He was engaged upon an exhaustive "History of Fevers from the Earliest Times" at the time of his death, and left the most complete collection of the literature of malaria then in existence. He held the grade of major in the medical service of the Confederacy until the end of the war. Its termination finding him in Richmond, he settled there to resume private practice. In 1869 he was appointed professor of pathology and physiology at the Medical College of Virginia, filling the position until 1882, when he became professor emeritus. In 1871-72 he was associate editor of the Virginia Clinical Record. The stress of an arduous professional life brought on a nervous breakdown, followed by an apoplectic stroke from which he died, in Richmond.
Achievements
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He early became a member of the Medical Society of North Carolina and was a member of the first State Board of Medical Examiners in 1859. He was a member of the Medical Society of Virginia from its origin in 1870, and of the Richmond Academy of Medicine. For several years he was president of the Richmond city council.
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A Treatise on the Physiological and Therapeutic Action: Of the Sulphate of Quinine (Classic Reprint)
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Catalogue of the Medical Library of the Late Prof. Otis Frederick Manson, M. D., Of Richmond, Va (Classic Reprint)
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A Treatise on the Physiological and Therapeutic Action: Of the Sulphate of Quinine (Classic Reprint)
Views
He early recognized the protean character of malaria and its importance as a causative agent and as a complication of other disease conditions. He perceived the relationship between malarial fever and pneumonia and is credited with being the first American writer to recognize puerperal malarial fever. He was an advocate of massive doses of quinine in malarial fever and of the treatment of pneumonia with the same drug.
Membership
a member of the Medical Society of North Carolina, a member of the first State Board of Medical Examiners, a member of the Medical Society of Virginia, a member of the Richmond Academy of Medicine
Personality
The independent thought expressed in his writings, together with his aggressive advocacy of the revolutionary application of some of his ideas, brought down upon him the opposition of the leaders of his profession in the state. For years he was bitterly assailed and made to suffer all the trials of the reformer, but many of his bitterest opponents lived to see the complete vindication of his views and practices and to adopt them as their own. Meanwhile, upon the request of Governor Vance of North Carolina, he went to Richmond in July 1862 to establish a hospital for disabled soldiers from that state. He secured a tobacco warehouse, naming it the Moore hospital, after the Surgeon General of the Confederate army. Though by choice an internist, in this position he showed himself a skilful operator. Though positive in manner, Manson was kindly and gracious. Elegant in dress, he wrote in a florid style then not uncommon, but which has since disappeared from scientific writing.
Connections
Manson married Mary Ann Spottswood Burwell, the daughter of a prominent citizen of the county. She died in 1872, and in 1881 he married Helen (Gray) Watson, daughter of William Gray, Esq. , of Richmond.
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