[2] On 3 December 1760, during the Seven Years' War when Britain and Frederick II of Prussia were united against France, Dr Donald Monro received a commission as physician to the hospital for the British forces in Germany, and he remained abroad until March 1763.
His work received special encouragement from Duke Ferdinand of Bavaria and General the Marquis of Granby.
He retired as physician General to the Army on half-pay of ten shillings a day and settled down to private practice at Jermyn Street, London.
[4] Dr Donald Monro died at Argyle Street, London on 9 June 1802, aged seventy four years.
[5] Dr Donald Monro's principal publications were: "Observations on the Means of preserving the Health of Soldiers", 1780 and a treatise in four volumes on "Medical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Materia Medica", 1788.