Men of Kent and Kentishmen/John Monro

by John Hutchinson

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John Monro,

PHYSICIAN,

Though descended of a Scottish family, was a native of Greenwich, where he was born in 1715. He was educated at Merchant Tailors' School and at St. John's College, Oxford, of which he became Fellow. He subsequently studied at Edinburgh and at Leyden (under Boerhaave). After returning from the continent he received from his university the degree of Doctor in Physic, and became Physician to the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals, from which time he devoted himself entirely to cases of insanity, on which branch of the medical art he attained the highest degree of eminence. His only published work was entitled " Remarks on Dr. Battie's Treatise on Madness." He died in 1791.

[See "Chalmers' Biographical Dictionary."]