Monro, Alexander.

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Epithet: MD, Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh

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Epithet: Lieutenant -Colonel in Dumbarton's Regiment

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Alexander Monro, primus (1697-1767), physician, was born in London on 8 September 1697. He attended Edinburgh University, 1710-1713, before studying in London, Paris and Leyden. He was appointed Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University in 1720, and published his major work, Osteology, a treatise on the anatomy of the human bones, in 1726. Monro retired from his professorship in 1758, and died in Edinburgh on 10 July 1767.

From the guide to the Alexander Monro: Lectures, 18th century, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)
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referencedIn MEDICAL COLLECTIONSCollections of treatises, chiefly medical, and letters of doctors and their patients; 17th-18th centt. The names of the writers of the letters will be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. The treatises are as follows:-(1)... British Library
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