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DR. JOHN DIXON MANN, an eminent Manchester toxicologist, was born in 1840 at Kendal, where his father was borough treasurer. He received his medical education at the Manchester Royal School of Medicine and qualified M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. in 1862. For many subsequent years he was engaged in general practice in Manchester, but in 1880 he became M.R.C.P.(Lond.) as well as M.D. of St. Andrews, and confined himself to consultant practice. In 1882 he was appointed physician to the Salford Royal Hospital, and three years later became lecturer in forensic medicine and toxicology at Owens College, Manchester, in succession to Dr. C. J. Cullingworth, who was elected professor of obstetrics and gynaecology. The lectureship was converted into a chair in 1892. Dixon Mann's principal work, “Forensic Medicine and Toxicology”, which won him the Swiney Prize awarded by the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Society of Arts, went through four editions between 1893 and 1907 and was for many years the standard work on the subject. His other book, entitled “On the Physiology and Pathology of the Urine with Methods for its Examination”, appeared in 1904 and was followed by a second edition in 1908. He also made numerous contributions to periodical medical literature including the Medical Chronicle,the now extinct Manchester journal, which contains a bibliography of his writings. He died on April 6, 1912.
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John Dixon Mann. Nature 145, 544 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145544c0
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