Alexander Monro II

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Alexander Munro II

Alexander Monro II (born May 22 or March 10, 1733 in Edinburgh , † October 2, 1817 there ) was a Scottish anatomist.

Life

Monro was a professor at the University of Edinburgh , where he had studied medicine from 1750. In 1783 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . From 1804 he was a foreign and from 1812 honorary member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Works

  • An Essay on the Dropsy and its Different Species. London 1756.
  • De venis lymphaticis valvulosis. Berlin 1757.
  • Observations, Anatomical and Physiological, Wherein Dr. Hunter's Claim to Some Discoveries is Examined. Edinburgh 1758.
  • A State of Facts Concerning the First Proposal of Performing the Paracentesis of the Thorax and the Discovery of the Lymphatic Valvular absorbent System of Oviparous Animals. In Answer to Mr. Hewson. Edinburgh 1770.
  • Microscopical Inquiries Into the Nerves and Brain. Edinburgh 1780.
  • Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Nervous System. Edinburgh 1783.
  • The Structure and Physiology of Fishes Explained and Compared With Those of Man and Other Animals. Edinburgh 1785.
  • A Description of All the Bursae Mucosae of the Human Body; Their Structure Explained and Compared With That of the Capsular Ligaments of the Joints, and of Those Sacs Which line the Cavities of the Thorax and Abdomen: With Remarks on the Accidents and Diseases Which Affect Those Several Sacs, and on the Operations Necessary for Their Cure . London 1788.
  • Experiments on the Nervous System With Opium and Metallic Substances; Made Chiefly With the View of Determining the Nature and Effects of Animal Electricity. Edinburgh 1793.
  • Observations on the Muscles and Particularly on the Effects of Their Oblique Fibers: With an Appendix, in Which the Pretension of Dr. Gilbert Blane, That He first Demonstrated the Same Effect to Be Produced by Oblique Muscles as by Straight Ones, With a Less Proportional Decurtation of Fibers is Proved to Be Quite Unfounded. Edinburgh 1794.
  • Three Treatises on the Brain, the Eye and the Ear. Edinburgh 1797.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed March 22, 2020 .
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Alexander Monro. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on May 9, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Monro, Alexander II
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Monro, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish anatomist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1733
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1817
Place of death Edinburgh