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of Edinburgh^ Session 1864 - 65 . 
It was during tins period that his first essays in writing for the 
press commenced, Dr Munro having largely made use of his ready 
pen in preparing for publication his famous work upon the Grullet. 
In 1832, having taken his diploma as surgeon, he commenced 
practice as Liston’s resident assistant ; and during the two succeed- 
ing years immediately preceding Liston’s removal to London, Mr 
Miller not only acted in his absence, hut largely relieved him in 
the daily press of business, while his evenings were occupied in 
re-writing and preparing Mr Liston’s Practical Surgery for pub- 
lication. 
When Liston went to London, Mr Miller commenced practice on 
his own account, and during the succeeding eight years continued 
to make a growing reputation, and to acquire a large circle of 
attached friends — a reputation not only as a practitioner and 
teacher of surgery in the extra-academical school, but as a grace- 
ful public speaker, and as an attractive lecturer to art students upon 
pictorial anatomy. 
In 1840 he became a Pellow of the Koyal College of Surgeons, 
and was shortly afterwards elected surgeon to the Eoyal Infirmary. 
In 1842, when the Chair of Surgery in the University of Edin- 
burgh became vacant, by the death of Sir Charles Bell, Mr Miller 
was unanimously elected to the Professorship by the Town Council, 
who then exercised the patronage over all, except the Crown ap- 
pointments. At this period he was only thirty years of age. From 
that time to this, for twenty-two sessions, Mr Miller uninter- 
ruptedly lectured to overflowing classes of attentive and admiring 
students. 
It was during the first year of his University course that a duo- 
decimo edition of his Principles and Practice of Surgery was pub- 
lished by the Messrs Black — a work which, passing through four 
editions in octavo, acquired a world-wide reputation, and of which 
the fifth edition, under the title of “ A System of Surgery,” had 
only been completed a few months before his last fatal illness 
manifested itself. 
It was in 1842, shortly after becoming Professor of Systematic 
Surgery, that Mr Miller was elected a Fellow of the Eoyal Society 
of Edinburgh. 
His printed v/orks and papers amount to upwards of thirty, and 
