Alexander Monro primus/Bibliography


 * Osteology; or a Treatise on the Anatomy of the Bones. To which are added, A Treatise of the Nerves, an Account of the Reciprocal Motions of the Heart, and a Description of the Human Lacteal Sac and Duct. Edinburgh 1726, 1732, 8vo. 6th edit. Corrected and enlarged. 1758. To the latter editions of this Work he added a concise Neurology, and an account of the Lacteal System and Thoracic Duct. In French, entitled, Traite d’Osteologie. Traduit de l’Anglois, anquel M. Sue a ajoute des Planches avec leurs Explications. Avig. 1759. Paris, 1759, 2 vols. With plates, by Cl. Sue.


 * Essay on Comparative Anatomy, London 1744, 8vo. A new edition, with considerable improvements and additions, by his son, and other hands. Edinburgh 1783.


 * Observations Anatomical and Physiological; wherein Dr. Hunter’s claim to some Discoveries is examined. Edinburgh 1758.


 * ''Answer to Notes on the Postscript to Observations Anatomical and Physiological. 1758.


 * An Expostulatory Epistle to Dr. William Hunter. Edinburgh 1762.
 * ''An Account of the Inoculation of Small Pox in Scotland. Edinburgh 1765.

In Edinburgh Medical Essays

 * 1731


 * Essay on the Art of Injecting the Vessels of Animals.
 * On the Articulation, Muscles, and Luxation of the Lower Jaw.
 * Improvements in performing the Operation of the Paracentesis or Tapping of the Belly.
 * Of a Tympany.
 * Essay on the Nutrition of the Foetus. and Sequel to the same.
 * On the Nourishment of Plants while in a Foetus state.
 * Practical Corollaries from the same.
 * On the Coats of the Arteries, their Diseases, and particularly Aneurism.
 * On the Aneurism occasioned by Blood Letting.
 * 1733


 * ''Anomalous appearance after an Ague.
 * 1734


 * On the Effects of the Conissi Bark. (1734).
 * Remarks on Chalybeate Waters.
 * Essay on the Method of Preparing and Preserving the Parts of Animal bodies for Anatomical use.
 * On the Diseases of the Lachrymal Canals. Ib. 280. Account of a Procidentia Uteri.
 * An uncommon Angina.
 * ''Asthma, with uncommon Symptoms.
 * Description and Uses of the Intestinum Duodenum. 
 * An Aneurism caused by a Puncture in Bleeding.
 * Of a White Swelling.
 * Of a Loose Cartilage in the Joint of the Knee.
 * History of an Ulcer of the Leg.
 * Remarks on the Amputations of the Larger Extremities.
 * Dropsy from Steatomatous Omentum.

1736

 * On Peruvian Bark in Gangrenous Ulcers and Small Pox.
 * A Skull, uncommon for the number and size of the Ossa Triquetra. 
 * Mechanism of the Cartilage between the true Vertebrae.
 * Remarks on the Spermatic vessels and Scrotum, with its Contents..
 * On Inguinal Hernia in Men.
 * Of Hydrocele, Haematocele, Pneumatocele, Variocele, spermatocele, and Sarcocele. 
 * An Essay on Caries of the Bones.
 * Histories of the Cure of Lymphatics opened in Wounds.
 * Artificial Passages for Natural Liquors.
 * On Collections of Bloody Lymph in Cancerous Breasts.
 * Description of several Chirurgical Instruments.
 * Histories of Successful Indulgence of Bad Habits in Patients.
 * Dissection of a Cataractous Eye.
 * The Ureters obstructed by Small Stones.
 * Four Cures of the Tumified Ovarium.

Essays in Phys. And Lit. ii. 276. 1756.

''Attempt to determine by Experiments how far some of the most powerful Medicines, such as Opium, Ardent spirits, &c. affect Animals by acting on the Nerves, to which they are primarily applied.''
 * Proofs of the Contiguity of the Lungs and the Pleura. *Of a Child escaping at a rent of the Womb into the Abdomen.''
 * Histories of Tophacious concretions in the Alimentary Canal.
 * Remarks on Prodicentiae Ani, Intersusceptio, Inflammation, and Valvula of the Intestines.

A collected edition of his works was published by his son, Dr. Alexander Monro, Secundus, at Edinburgh in 1781, with a Life prefixed, by another of his sons, Dr Donald Monro.