John Pringle

Sir John Pringle (April 10th 1707 - January 18th 1782) is a British Médecin .

Pringle is youngest wire of a family of Stitchel in the Roxburghshire. He studies in the universities of Saint Andrews, Edinburgh and Leiden. He obtains his degree of doctor in the latter or he attends assiduously Gerald van Swieten (1700-1772) and Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777). He settles with Edinburgh, initially as doctor then after 1734 also as professor of moral Philosophie at the university of this city. In 1742 he becomes doctor of John Dalrymple, 2nd count de Stair which then orders the armed British one in the Flanders S. In 1744 it is engaged as general doctor of the British forces to the Netherlands by the Prince Guillaume Auguste, Duc of Cumberland.

In 1749, after being itself installed with London he becomes the personal doctor of the Duke of Cumberland. It Marie in 1752 with the sister of Dr. William Oliver. It receives other engagements of the court as doctor and is made baronnet in 1766.

Its first Natural book Observations one and Cure off Hospital and Jayl Fevers , is published in 1750. The same year it contributes to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society three articles on the Antiseptique S: Experiments one Septic and Antiseptic Substances which are worth the Médaille Copley to him. Two years later his more important work Observations one the Diseases off the Army in Camp and Garrison make it look at nowadays like one of the founders of modern military medicine.

In November 1772 it is elected president of Royal Society. During its presidency it makes 6 speeches which will be published in a volume (1783). After having exceeded its 70e year it is established with Edinburgh in 1780 but it turns over to London in September of the following year or it dies in 1782. A monument is dedicated to him in the Abbaye of Westminster.

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