Monro, Alexander, primus

Monro, Alexander, primus

▪ Scottish physician and professor of anatomy
born Sept. 8, 1697, London
died July 10, 1767, Edinburgh

      physician, first professor of anatomy and surgery at the newly founded University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, University of) medical school. With his son, Alexander secundus (1733–1817), and his grandson, Alexander tertius (1773–1859), who succeeded him in the chair at Edinburgh, he is noted for his role in advancing that institution to a position of international prominence as a centre of medical teaching during the 18th and 19th centuries. He showed that jaundice is caused by obstruction of the bile duct and advanced many new ideas in surgical instruments and dressings.

      A pupil of the Dutch physician Hermann Boerhaave at the University of Leiden (1718–19), Monro was appointed professor at Edinburgh in 1720. His adoption of Boerhaave's teaching methods, responsible for making Leiden the foremost centre of medical teaching during the 17th century, attracted the most promising graduate students from the North American colonies to Edinburgh, at that time the only modern university in Great Britain and the only British university to admit nonmembers of the Anglican High Church.

      Monro wrote two books and numerous scientific papers, including An Account of the Inoculation of Smallpox in Scotland (1764). See also Monro family.

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