Monro, Alexander (16971767)

Monro, Alexander, founder of Edinburgh Medical School, born of Scotch parentage in London; studied there, and at Paris and Leyden, and was appointed lecturer on Anatomy by the Surgeons' Company at Edinburgh in 1719; two years later he became professor, and in 1725 was admitted to the University; he was a principal promoter and early clinical lecturer in the Royal Infirmary, and continued his clinical work after resigning his chair to his son Alexander; he wrote several medical works, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society; he was called primus, to distinguish him from his son and grandson, who were called respectively secundus and tertius, and were professors of Anatomy in Edinburgh like himself (16971767).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Monothelism * Monroe, James
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Monica, St.
Monism
Monk, George, Duke of Albemarle
Monmouth, Geoffrey
Monmouth, James, Duke of
Monmouthshire
Monophysites
Monotheism
Monothelism
Monro, Alexander
Monroe, James
Monroe Doctrine
Monson, Sir Edward
Monsoon
Monstrance
Mont Blanc
Mont Cenis
Mont de Piété
Montagnards
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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