Alexander Monro I.

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Alexander Monro primus

Alexander Monro I. also: Primus called, (born September 19, 1697 in London , † July 10, 1767 in Edinburgh ) was a Scottish anatomist and founder of the Edinburgh Medical School .

Life

Monro was the son of the military surgeon John Monro, who later practiced in Edinburgh, studied in London with William Cheselden , Paris and in 1718 with Herman Boerhaave in Leiden . In 1719 he was prosector for anatomy at the Surgeons' Company at Edinburgh and in 1721 professor of anatomy, where he was admitted to the university in 1725.

Monro was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1723 . He was known for his anatomy of bones and nerves. In 1759 he left his chair to his son Alexander and occasionally gave clinical lectures. He had numerous treatises in the Medic. Essays an Observations by a Society at Edinb. and the Essays, Physical and Literary . After his death, his sons brought The works of ... published by his son Alexander Monro. To which is prefixed, the life of the author (Edinburgh 1781). He was one of the first to try curing the hydrocele by injecting wine. He was an opponent of breast cancer surgery.

Works

  • Osteology, or a treatise on the anatomy of bones. To Which are added a treatise of the nerves ... . Edinburgh 1726, 1732, 6th ed. 1758, 1763, French. translated: just osteology. Paris 1759, German: Leipzig 1761
  • Essay on comparative anatomy. London 1744, 1783, French translated: 1766, German: Göttingen 1790
  • A account of the inoculation of small-prox in Scotland. Edinburgh 1765, French u. German: 1766

literature

  • August Hirsch , Ernst Gurlt: Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig, 1886, Vol. 4, p. 267

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. Handbook of Human Anatomy, Volume 1, By Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt, Ernst Heinrich Weber, p. 11