and Foreign Medical Review in 1847. In October 1846 (iv. 285) he wrote in it a long review on a French report on Plague and Quarantine, by René-Clovis Prus (2 vols., Paris, 1846), and published an abridged translation, with preface and notes, as Quarantine and the Plague, London, 1846. He recommended the mitigation or total abolition of quarantine, and at the same time the dependence on sanitary measures alone for preservation from foreign pestilences. He also wrote articles on "Sydenham" in The Lancet, 1846-7; the article on "Plague" in John Russell Reynolds's System of Medicine, vol. i., and anonymous articles in the medical journals. In 1862 Milroy was a member of a committee appointed by the College of Physicians at the request of the Colonial Office for the purpose of collecting information on the subject of leprosy. He dominated the committee, by 1865. Data was collected from the British Empire on the disease, which Milroy believed was "constitutional", and used selectively. The report was printed in 1867, and the appendix included Notes respecting the Leprosy of Scripture by Milroy. Notes Attribution 1805 births 1886 deaths 19th-century Scottish medical doctors Scottish medical writers Medical doctors from Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians