Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1010

ALEXANDER MONRO (1733-1817) Observations on the structure and functions of the nervous system. Printed for, and sold by, W. Creech 1783 x, 176 pp., 41 (misnumbered 47) plates (part fold.). 49.9 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 827

Monro secundus, trained in anatomy by his father (see No. 827), was perhaps the greatest of the three Monros and, like his father, was a gifted and popular teacher as well as a distinguished physician. He received his medical degree at Edinburgh in 1755 and later studied with Hunter in London, Albinus in Leiden, and Meckel the Elder in Berlin. He is best known for his discovery of the foramen of Monro and for an incomplete description of the lymphatic system. This massive text and atlas on human and comparative neurology is Monro's greatest work. The plates, though artistically sterile, are clear and accurate while the text contains a number of important descriptions, among them the interventricular foramen between the lateral and third ventricles (the foramen of Monro).

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 1385; Russell 610; Waller 6645

Gift of John Martin, M.D.