{"id":3872,"date":"2017-08-21T10:50:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T10:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2017-08-21T10:50:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T10:50:46","slug":"sir-philip-henry-manson-bahr-1881-1966-artist-scientist-in-fiji-1909-1911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/2017\/08\/21\/sir-philip-henry-manson-bahr-1881-1966-artist-scientist-in-fiji-1909-1911\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Philip Henry Manson-Bahr (1881-1966) : artist-scientist in Fiji 1909-1911"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/strong>Sir Philip Henry Manson-Bahr was an eminent physician and senior staff member at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1919-1947) where he specialised in tropical medicine. He was also a gifted artist.<\/p>\n

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Philip Bahr c1915. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Middle East and Egypt in World War 1. (Photo courtesy of LSHTM Archive Service. Manson Collection)<\/p>\n

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In 1909, shortly after qualifying in medicine, Philip Bahr (as he was then) led the Stanley Research Expedition to Fiji to investigate filariasis and dysentery. Fiji, an archipelago of 330 islands in the Pacific was at that time a British crown colony.\u00a0\u00a0 Accompanied by his wife Edith, a daughter of Sir Patrick Manson (the \u2018father of tropical medicine\u2019), he settled in the village of Loma Loma on the island of Vanua Balavu. \u00a0\u00a0For over a year their accommodation was a ramshackle hut with a verandah on the side on which Bahr built a laboratory to house equipment and supplies brought out from England and to carry out the work.<\/p>\n

By any standards the two research projects were highly specialised challenges and especially for the young and relatively inexperienced scientist who was on his own except for his assistant W.J. Muggleton from London and a Fijian medical student, Jesse. Without access to a good medical library and other colleagues Bahr resorted to writing to his father-in-law in England for advice about the insect vectors and nematode worms. \u00a0In one letter, dated 2 March 1910 Sir Patrick replied in great detail \u00a0: \u00a0\u201cYour first letters from Fiji arrived a few days ago \u2026. I spent this afternoon restaining and mounting the four filaria slides. The oil you had mounted them with had nearly all evaporated and the staining had become so faint that it was impossible to make out anything until they had been restained. This I did with haematoxylin mounting with balsam. They will keep therefore against your arrival in case you might want to refer to them.\u00a0 \u2026 The absence of periodicity is a very important point ; but I confess to complete failure to make out any morphological difference between the filariae you mark philippensis and nocturna respectively \u2026\u201d (Quoted from letter in Wellcome Library Collection : WTI\/RST\/F\/24\/25\/33)<\/p>\n

In 1910 a hurricane swept through the island but Bahr and his family survived and his laboratory was virtually unscathed. He left Fiji in 1911 and returned to England later that year to write up the results of his work in Fiji which were published in 1912 : \u00a0\u00a0Report to the London School of Tropical Medicine on investigations on dysentery in Fiji during the year 1910 <\/em>(London : Witherby) and\u00a0 Filariasis and elephantiasis in Fiji<\/em> ; being a report to the London School of Tropical Medicine<\/em> (London : Witherby).<\/p>\n

The 192 page memoir on Filariasis and elephantiasis in Fiji<\/em> is profusely illustrated throughout with Bahr\u2019s paintings, line drawings and photographs. \u00a0There are approximately thirty-five illustrations based on Bahr\u2019s original drawings, most of which are dated 1911, and may have been completed either in Fiji or after he was back in London.\u00a0 Most scientists had to prepare their own illustrations but for Bahr it was probably a particular pleasure as painting was one of his hobbies.\u00a0\u00a0 Even so, Sir Patrick offered some words of advice in his letter dated 30 March 1910 : \u201cI cant (sic) follow your description of F. Philippensis. Let me suggest to you to make a block which would print an outline of a filaria \u00a0\u2013 something like the sketch on margin – \u00a0\u2026. A thing like an outline stamp \u2013 and record on prints of this the various new features you recognise from time to time in your examinations of filaria, bearing in mind that the filaria is round and that the appearance of any features when seen in profile may be quite different when seen so to speak full face\u201d (Quoted from letter in Wellcome Library Collection : WTI\/RST\/F\/24\/25\/33)<\/p>\n

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Below are some examples of Bahr\u2019s illustrations of insects and nematode worms reproduced in Filariasis and elephantiasis in Fiji <\/em>(the scientific names are from Bahr, 1912):<\/p>\n

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The mosquitoes Stegomyia pseudoscutellaris<\/em> and Culex jepsoni<\/em> \u2013 after an original watercolour (plate opposite p. 18)<\/p>\n

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A dissection of the head and proboscis of the mosquito Stegomyia pseudoscutellaris<\/em> infected with microfilariae.\u00a0 The drawing with made with the aid of a camera lucida, an optical device used as a drawing aid especially useful for microscopical illustration (p. 22)<\/p>\n

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Drawings (pen and ink) of living specimens of larval filariae taken on different days from the mosquito Stegomyia pseudoscutellaris<\/em> to show different stages in the development of the intestinal canal. Drawn to scale with the aid of a camera lucida. These drawings of live material would have been made in Fiji in 1911.\u00a0 (p. 19)<\/p>\n

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