Medical commentaries. Part I : Containing a plain and direct answer to Professor Monro, jun., interspersed with remarks on the structure, functions, and diseases of several parts of the human body
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Type of record: Book
Title: Medical commentaries. Part I : Containing a plain and direct answer to Professor Monro, jun., interspersed with remarks on the structure, functions, and diseases of several parts of the human body
Classmark: Health Sciences Historical Collection SC.3
Creator(s): Hunter, William (1718-1783)
Additional creator(s): Monro, Alexander (1733-1817) (Other); Monro, Alexander (1697-1767) (Other); Monro, Donald (1727-1802) (Other); Pott, Percivall (1714-1788) (Other)
Related people: Monro, Alexander; Monro, Alexander; Monro, Donald; Pott, Percivall
Publisher: S. Baker and G. Leigh [etc.]
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1777
Language: English
Size and medium: vii, 103 (i.e. 113), v, [6]-33 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/168702
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010349789705181
Description
Page 113 incorrectly numbered 103.
No more published.
Contents: Introduction.--Of the injections of the testis.--Of the origin and use of the lymphatic vessels.--The history of the dispute.--Remarks upon some extraordinary paragraphs in Dr. Monro's pamphlet.--Of absorbtion by veins.--Of the vessels of cartilages, and of the ducts of the lachrymal gland.--An examination of what professor Monro sen. published as a defence of his son.--Of the discovery of the membrana pupillaris, and of the insensibility of tendons, &c.--Of the rupture in which the testis is in contact with the intestine.--Appendix: Remarks on Dr. Monro's treatise De venis lymphaticis valvulosis, by the reviewers. An anonymous letter by Professor Monro sen. Facts relating to the dispute by Dr. Hunter. A letter from Dr. Donald Monro. Remarks on the foregoing article by Dr. Hunter.--Supplement [contribution to the controversy between the author and Dr. Percival Pott as to the discovery of the cause of congenital hernia].
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