Alexander Monro, tertius (1773–1859)

The manuscript lecture-notes of Alexander Monro, secundus (1733-1817).

THERE RESTS in the Medical School Library of the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, a unique collection of printed books and manuscripts most of which once belonged to one or other of the three professors each called Alexander Monro, who in succession from 1720 to 1846 occupied the Chair of Anatomy in Edinburgh. I have briefly described elsewhere' the contents of the Monro Collection ...

The manuscript lecture-notes of Alexander Monro primus (1697-1767).

INTRODUCTION In the latter halfofthe eighteenth century, Edinburgh bycommon consent possessed the leading medical school in the English-speaking world. To it flocked students from all over Britain and her colonies in North America and the Caribbean. In the 1770s, halfa century after the foundation ofthe Faculty, they came to hear men ofthe calibre ofJoseph Black, William Cullen, and Alexander M...

'Discourses on the Human Physiology' by Alexander Monro primus (1697-1767).

INTRODUCTION Historians have long taken it for granted that the teaching in the early Edinburgh medical faculty was founded on the system of Boerhaave, which was in turn based on Newtonian mechanism. All of the first-appointed teachers had studied at Leyden, and they brought its traditions back with them.' My own examination of the evidence, particularly that provided by surviving student lectu...

533-537 Monro Aug03

Cancer has been attributed to 3 causes: pollution, infection, and poor nutrition. Conventional treatments include surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. The author proposes that immunotherapy also be considered. Among other environmental influences, dietary deficiencies and carcinogenic viral infections must be investigated and treated wherever possible. It has been suggested that mushrooms, ...

Donald Monro (1727–1802)