Alexander Monro (secundus) Quotes

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For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of blood within the head must be the same, or very nearly the same, at all times, whether in health or disease, in life or after death.

Alexander Monro

Alexander Monro

Alexander Monro

Born: May 22, 1733

Died: October 2, 1817 (aged 84)

Bio: Alexander Monro of Craiglockhart and Cockburn FRCPE was a Scottish anatomist, physician and medical educator. To distinguish him as the second of three generations of physicians of the same name, he is known as secundus.

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