The Fever by Sonia Shah

Author:Sonia Shah
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books Farrar, Straus And Giroux New York

Manson and Ross, neither of whom ever achieved much financial success, constantly fretted over securing a living. Manson’s tactic was to try to shame the British government into supporting his and Ross’s work, appealing to its sense of national pride. “It is little to our credit,” he told a medical society gathering in 1894, “that continental nations, whose stake in tropical countries is infinitely smaller than ours, are nevertheless just as infinitely ahead of us in this matter.” Ross agreed: it would be so “annoying” if “the Italians do come in first!”40

Manson and Ross fought the Italian researchers’ findings tooth and nail and clung to their misguided hypotheses to the very end. After all, their very livelihoods were at stake. “Bignami is a pure villain,” Ross raged.

He wants to secrete a mosquito theory of his own . . . He wants to bite into the heart of your theory, suck its juices & then bloat & swell into a discoverer—or rather until he is thought to be one . . . He is quite capable of spreading his six legs over your work & calling it all his own . . . if you have not squelched him already you ought to do it.41

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