Donald Munro

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Dr. Donald Munro.

Ref: "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - L/51

Ref: "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - L/51

"This was Alexander, first professor of anatomy in Edinburgh from 1720, m Isabella dr of Sir Donald of Sleat, and d 10 Jly 1767, leaving sons John (suc to Auchinbowie), Dr Donald, Alexander (professor secundus), and 3 drs."

Ref: "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
317

2. Donald, born in Edinburgh in 1731. He also studied for the medical profession, and settled as a physician in London, where he attained an eminent position, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; was senior physician to the army, and to St George's Hospital. Like his father, Dr Donald Monro was the author of several medical works, among which are:--"Thesis de Hydrope," 1753; "Dissection of a Woman with Child, and Remarks on Grand Ulteri," 1754; "An Essay on the Dropsy, and its Different Species," 1755; "An Account of some Neutral Salts," 1767; "On the Effects of the Quassia Root in some Fevers," 1768; "A Treatise on Mineral Waters," 1770; "Cases of Aneurism; with Remarks," 1771; "An Account of a Pure Native Crystallized Natron, or Fossil Alkaline Salt, found in the Country of Tripoli in Barbary," 1771; "A Treatise on the Sulphureous Mineral Waters of Castle Leod and Fairburn, in Ross-shire, and of the Salt Purging Waters of Pitcaithly in Perthshire," 1772; "A Treatise on the State of the Intestines in Old Dysenteries," 1772; "Uncommon Cases--Violent Scurvy--Venereal Disorders--Obstinate Intermittent Fevers--Tumour in the Brain--Hydrocephalus--Ossifications in the Mysentery," 1772; "On the Use of Mercury in Consumptive Disorders," 1772; "Praelectiones Medicae ex Cronii Instituto, etc., it Oratio Haveii, etc.,: 1775; "Observations on the Means of Preserving the Health of soldiers and of Conducting Military Hospitals," 1780; "A Treatise on Medical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and the Materia Medica," 1788; and "Of the Method of Making the Otto of Roses as it is prepared in the East Indies," 1790. He died in July, 1802, aged 71 years, having married a German lady-in-Waiting to Queen Charlotte, Consort of George II., with issue--an only daughter,...

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ref: "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
317-318

Isabella, who married Colonel John Scott, son of John Scott of Gala, Selkirkshire, by his wife, Magdelen, daughter of Sir Archibald Hope, Baronet of Craighall, Fifeshire. By Isabella Monro Colonel Scott had issue--...

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Birth:
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Family/Spouse: John Scott. John was born est 1754; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ref: "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
318

1, Maria Georgina, who assumed the name of Macdougall on succeeding her cousin, Miss Hay-Macdougall, in 1864, in the estate of Mackerstown, Kelso, under the entail of Sir Henry Hay-Macdougall, Baronet;...

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Ref: "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
318

2, Lisette, who married William Gregory, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh, with issue;

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Notes:

Ref: "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
318

3, Isabella, who died unmarried.

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