Biography:

Pathologist; physician; professor of medicine. Born– July 13, 1911, in Blackville, New Brunswick, Canada. Parents– John Patrick Cantwell and Mary Clare Rose (Forde) McManus. Moved to United States, 1938; naturalized, 1947. Education– Fordham University, B.S., 1933; Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, M.D., 1938. Married– Norma Rose Shumway, January 3, 1941. Children– Two. Served as assistant pathologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1938-1940; served in Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, 1940-45; Beit Memorial Fellow, Oxford, 1945-1946; taught at the University of Alabama, 1946-1950 and 1953-1961; University of Virginia, 1950-1953; Indiana University, 1961-1965; executive director, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 1965-70. Professor and Dean, Medical University of South Carolina, 1970-74. Formulated the McManus Periodic Anti-Schiff Stain, used in research and diagnosis of the kidney.  Died March 5, 1980.

Source:

Wikipedia

Publication(s):

The Fundamental Ideas of Medicine; … Springfield, Ill.; Charles Thomas, 1963.

General Pathology; the Biological Aspects of Disease. Chicago; Year Book Medical Publishers, 1966.

Medical Diseases of the Kidney: An Atlas and Introduction.  London: Kimpton, 1950.

Progress in Fundamental Medicine.  Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger, 1952.

Staining Methods, Histologic and histochemical.  New York;  Harper, 1965.