English physician and specialist in insanity (1716-1791)

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Dr. Monro (physician to Bedlam) examining the straight jacketed and dishevelled Charles James Fox; representing the fall of the Coalition. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.

Customers and patrons of the mad-trade : the management of lunacy in eighteenth-century London : with the complete text of John Monro's 1766 case book / Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull.

Undertaker of the mind : John Monro and mad-doctoring in eighteenth-century England / Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull.

Oratio anniversaria in theatro Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensium; ex Harveii instituto, habita die 18° Octobris, 1757.

A treatise on madness / by William Battie, and Remarks on Dr. Battie's Treatise on madness, by John Monro; a psychiatric controversy of the eighteenth century. Introduced and annotated by Richard Hunter and Ida Macalpine.

Remarks on Dr. Battie's Treatise on madness / [John Monro].

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John Monro

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Oratio anniversaria in theatro Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensium; ex Harveii instituto, habita die 18° Octobris, 1757.

A treatise on madness / by William Battie, and Remarks on Dr. Battie's Treatise on madness, by John Monro; a psychiatric controversy of the eighteenth century. Introduced and annotated by Richard Hunter and Ida Macalpine.

Remarks on Dr. Battie's Treatise on madness / [John Monro].

John Monro

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Images featuring John Monro

Works from the collections

Oratio anniversaria in theatro Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensium; ex Harveii instituto, habita die 18° Octobris, 1757.

A treatise on madness / by William Battie, and Remarks on Dr. Battie's Treatise on madness, by John Monro; a psychiatric controversy of the eighteenth century. Introduced and annotated by Richard Hunter and Ida Macalpine.

Remarks on Dr. Battie's Treatise on madness / [John Monro].

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