Alexander Monro primus/Bibliography

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• 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.

• 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.

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.

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.