A short statement of facts, relative to the first appointment of a Professor of Surgery in Edinburgh / By a member of the College of Surgeons.

Date:
1806
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Credit: A short statement of facts, relative to the first appointment of a Professor of Surgery in Edinburgh / By a member of the College of Surgeons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Town-Council Dr. Alexander Monro, one of their members, to be Professor of Ana¬ tomy within the city. In consequence of that recommendation. Dr. Monro, having been appointed Pro¬ fessor by theMagistratesandTown-Council, delivered his lectures upon Anatomy in the Theatre belonging to the College of Sur¬ geons till the year 1/25, when he was first received into the University. The present Dr. Alexander Monro wras appointed Professor of Anatomy on the resignation of his father in the year 1 75Q ; and, in addition to this appointment, re¬ ceived from the Magistrates and Town- Council of Edinburgh a commission to teach Surgery, in the month of August 1/77. The circumstances which gave rise to this appointment were the following. The late Mr. James Rae, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, having for several years delivered a Course of Lectures on the Practice of Surgery, under the im¬ mediate and public patronage of the Col¬ lege, addressed a letter to that body, in