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about the formation of an anatomical school in the University, 

 in the success of which all parties were equally zealous, and 

 to which Dr. Monro was appointed. Dr. Monro possessed 

 all those qualifications necessary for the position in which he 

 found himself. Educated as an anatomist by his father, who 

 was himself a surgeon and practitioner, he then dissected 

 under Cheselden in London, and studied under Winslow and 

 Albinus in Paris and Leyden, and therefore combined in 

 himself all those peculiarities which characterised the 

 anatomical epoch in which he lived and taught. The 

 instructions and example of Cheselden and Boerhaave — the 

 latter, although better known as a physician and chemist, yet 

 at the same time a learned anatomist — excited in Monro 

 those unceasing efforts which he ever afterwards made to 

 improve the practice of our profession, by the correspondence 

 he kept up with his numerous pupils and with other practi- 

 tioners ; by the papers which he published in the Edinburgh 

 Medical Essays, and which led Haller to state, in reference to 

 these essays, " Monrous ibi eininet;" and by the precise 

 manner in which he taught anatomy to his class, always with 

 a view to the practice of medicine. The effect produced in 

 him by the peculiar tendency which I have already alluded 

 to in the prelections of Winslow and Albinus, is evinced by 

 the description which he published of the bones and nerves. 

 Both works were speedily reprinted in several languages, and 

 illustrated by engravings. They are both good examples of the 

 accurate descriptions peculiar to the period ; and the former 

 is still one of the best works I can recommend to you in your 

 studies of the human skeleton. 



By his residence in Leyden he imbibed his fondness for 

 making mid collecting anatomical preparations — an art which 

 was one of the characteristics of the epoch which immediately 

 preceded his own. It took its rise in Holland. Swammer- 

 ilam, and particularly Kuysch, invented and almost brought 



