Monro

Monro, Alexander (1697-1767), a Scottish anatomist, and founder of the Edinburgh Medical School, was born in London, and studied at Edinburgh, and in London under Cheselden, going afterwards to Paris and to Leyden, where he was a pupil of Boerhaave. In 1719 he began to lecture on anatomy and surgery at Edinburgh, and in 1720 became professor of these subjects at the university. His chief works are Anatomy of Human Bones and Nerves, and Essay on Comparative Anatomy. Alexander, his son (1733-1817), succeeded to his father's chair in 1759, and was also a distinguished anatomist. He wrote on The Nervous System, and the Structure and Physiology of Fishes.