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John Dixon Mann was the son of John Mann, at one 

 time Borough Treasurer of Kendal. He was born at Kendal in 

 1840, and was 72 years of age at his death — on April 6th, 19 12. 

 He was educated at the Friends' School, Kendal, and served his 

 apprenticeship to a medical man in that town. He then came 

 to Manchester as a student of the Manchester Royal School of 

 Medicine, took the M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. in 1862, and entered 

 general practice in Manchester. In 1880 he took the degree of 

 M.D. in the University of St. Andrews and the Membership of 

 the Royal College of Physicians of London. In 1882 he was 

 appointed Honorary Physician to the Salford Royal Hospital, a 

 post which he still held at the time of his death. 



In 1885, on the appointment of the late Dr. Cullingworth 

 to the chair of Obstetrics, Dr. Dixon Mann succeeded him as 

 Lecturer on Forensic Medicine and Toxicology in the Owens 

 College, and was made Professor of the same subjects in 1892. 

 During the last few years of his life he represented the University 

 of Manchester on the General Medical Council. 



His piactice for the first twenty years was of a general 

 character, but after that time became more restricted to the work 

 of a consulting physician, and he was elected 10 the Fellowship 

 of the Royal College of Physicians in 1890. During the latter 

 part of his life he had a large consulting practice, and his opinion 

 was highly valued by his colleagues as that of a physician of 

 great practical experience, particularly well-balanced mind, and 

 sound judgment. 



In all his work he was essentially a scientific man, and he 

 carried his scientific habit of mind into his medical work at a 

 time when the practice of medicine was still largely empirical. 

 He had a laboratory and workshop in his house, and was con- 

 stantly occupied in experimental work, even when engaged in 

 busy practice. 



He became a member of the Manchester Literary and 

 Philosophical Society in 1875, ^"^ his first published paper was 

 in the Proceedings for 1878 (Vol. XVII. , p. 91). It was "On an 



