Alexander Monro Secundus
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Alexander Monro of Craiglockhart and Cockburn was a Scottish anatomist, physician and medical educator. He is typically known as Alexander Monro secundus to distinguish him as the second of three gene
Alexander Monro secundus, coloured engraving (1800) by James Heath after Henry Raeburn
The grave of Alexander Monro secundus Greyfriars Kirkyard
Alexander Monro Primus
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Alexander Monro was a Scottish surgeon and anatomist. His father, the surgeon John Monro, had been a prime mover in the foundation of the Edinburgh Medical School and had arranged Alexander's educatio
Alexander Monro Secundus
…pupil George Kellie, who worked as a surgeon in the port of Leith. Alexander Monro, the third and youngest son of Isabella Macdonald of Sleat, and Alexander Monro primus was born at Edinburgh on 20 May 1733. He was sent with his brothers to Mr Mundell's school, where he learned the rudiments of Latin and Greek, and…
Alexander Monro by Allan Ramsay (1749)
Bust of Monro in Old College, University of Edinburgh