The students at Edinburgh were privileged to attend lectures by such medical immortals as  the great anatomy professor Alexander Monro primus, September 19, 1697 – July 10, 1767. Monro was born of Scots parentage in London, and studied there, and at Paris and Leiden. He was appointed lecturer on anatomy by the Surgeons' Company at Edinburgh in 1719; two years later he became professor, and in 1725 was admitted to the University. He was a principal promoter and early clinical lecturer in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, and continued his clinical work after resigning his chair to his son Alexander secundas. At the end of 1726 Monro published his Anatomy of the Human Bones, which went through eight editions in his lifetime, the later ones including a treatise on the nerves.