Alexander Monro, primus

摘要

This reprint presents publication of a manuscript account of the life of the first of the Alexander Monros, anatomists of Edinburgh. Erlam, who is Librarian at Otago, New Zealand, whence many of the books and papers of the Monro family found their way as the result of migration of their descendant, David Monro, has presented good reason for believing that the account was written by primus himself. The principal reason, previously advanced by W. J. Mullin for not believing so is that the account is an extraordinary laudatory one and contains some curious indirections. Both of these are explicable onthe basis of the assumption that the original material was compiled by someone else either upon his own initiative or at primus' request and turned over to him for correction.