MONRO ALEXANDER Secundus Lectures on Surgery Student transc

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MONRO, ALEXANDER, Secundus. Lectures on Surgery. manuscript written in neat cursive hand in brownish-black ink on laid paper. Over 875 leaves, bound in 4 volumes, with index in each of the first 3. 200x130 mm, contemporary tree calf, varnished, spine ends chipped, covers detached. [Edinburgh, circa 1783?]

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Student transcription of Monro's lectures on the operations of surgery. The son of the famed Scottish anatomist (1697-1767), to whose writings he refers in the first volume, Monro Secundus (1733-1817), "the greatest of the Monro dynasty" (Garrison-Morton), taught at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh from 1759 to 1808. DSB IX, 482-84. Provenance: W. M. D., signature dated Edinburgh, 1783; John Wood, founder of the Bowery Savings Bank, presentation inscription dated 1818 to his brother Isaac Wood, physician and one of the founders of the New York Academy of Medicine, with the latter's signature dated 1831; Isaac F. Wood, inscription "by bequest of his father" dated 1868, with the younger Wood's presentation inscription dated 1893 to the New York Academy of Medicine (released); G. N. J. Sommer, M.D., bookplate.