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Actions	Alexander Monro (Secundus) (1733-1817) Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberED.CS.2010.164 TitleAlexander Monro (Secundus) (1733-1817) Creator Margaret Hunter (Artist)‎ DescriptionPortrait of Alexander Monro (Secundus) (1733-1817). Oil on canvas by Margaret Hunter, 1950. Unframed [frame separate] The third and youngest son of Monro Primus, Monro Secundus was never a member of the Incorporation of Surgeons. He assisted his father as lecturer and was made joint professor with him in 1754 when he was 21. In the following year he graduated MD and four years later became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. A greater anatomist than his father, he excelled as an investigator and teacher. He described, though he did not discover, the foramen which bears his name and helped to elucidate the nature of the lymphatic vessels. Under him the class numbers increased to the extent that a new lecture theatre became necessary and was built in 1774. He had an extensive practice as a physician and became President of the Royal College of Physicians in 1779. He is said to have invented the stomach tube and was a staunch advocate of mouth to mouth respiration. He was consulted in difficult surgical cases but was never an operating surgeon. His strictly theoretical knowledge of surgery did not preclude his being responsible for the teaching of surgery as well as anatomy. However, James Rae, a former Deacon of the Incorporation, began to lecture on clinical surgery and in 1776 he requested the Incorporation to apply to the Crown to establish a Regius Chair of Surgery. Monro, ‘having taken some alarm’, acted swiftly to block this challenge, as is described in more detail under John Thomson. Production date 1950 - 1950 Production periodTwentieth century, mid Object nameAlexander Monro Secundus Object categoryArtworks MaterialOil, Canvas Dimensions Height: 51 cm Width: 41 cm Depth: 2 cm

Object numberED.CS.2010.164

TitleAlexander Monro (Secundus) (1733-1817)

DescriptionPortrait of Alexander Monro (Secundus) (1733-1817). Oil on canvas by Margaret Hunter, 1950. Unframed [frame separate] The third and youngest son of Monro Primus, Monro Secundus was never a member of the Incorporation of Surgeons. He assisted his father as lecturer and was made joint professor with him in 1754 when he was 21. In the following year he graduated MD and four years later became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. A greater anatomist than his father, he excelled as an investigator and teacher. He described, though he did not discover, the foramen which bears his name and helped to elucidate the nature of the lymphatic vessels. Under him the class numbers increased to the extent that a new lecture theatre became necessary and was built in 1774. He had an extensive practice as a physician and became President of the Royal College of Physicians in 1779. He is said to have invented the stomach tube and was a staunch advocate of mouth to mouth respiration. He was consulted in difficult surgical cases but was never an operating surgeon. His strictly theoretical knowledge of surgery did not preclude his being responsible for the teaching of surgery as well as anatomy. However, James Rae, a former Deacon of the Incorporation, began to lecture on clinical surgery and in 1776 he requested the Incorporation to apply to the Crown to establish a Regius Chair of Surgery. Monro, ‘having taken some alarm’, acted swiftly to block this challenge, as is described in more detail under John Thomson.

Production date 1950 - 1950

Production periodTwentieth century, mid

Object nameAlexander Monro Secundus

Object categoryArtworks

MaterialOil, Canvas

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