MONRO, ALEXANDER (SECUNDUS). 1733-1817. Manuscript student notebook of Monro's lectures on surg...

MONRO, ALEXANDER (SECUNDUS). 1733-1817. Manuscript student notebook of Monro's lectures on surgery. [Edinburgh: 1775.] 660 hand-numbered pages, 37 lectures, starting from March 3, 1775 (all but the first undated), in numerous unidentified hands, bound in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, heavily chipped, text block split in two places. Alexander Monro, secundus (1733-1817) was a 1755 medical graduate of the University of Edinburgh where he succeeded his father as professor of anatomy. 'In the fifty years he taught at Edinburgh University Monro became the most influential anatomy professor in the English speaking world.' ODNB 38:640-641. 'During the first 60 years of the Monro regime, the university had a monopoly on anatomical teaching, but it is a significant fact that though the first two Monros lectured on surgery, neither was an operating surgeon, and the second was a consulting physician with a large practice.' Comrie, History of Scottish Medicine, volume 2, p 324. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing