John Pringle
Sir John Pringle ( born April 10, 1707 Stichill ( County Roxburghshire, Scotland ); † January 18, 1782 in London) was a British physician.
Life and work
John Pringle was born as the youngest son of Sir John Pringle, 2nd Baronet, of Stichill, Roxburghshire ( 1662-1721 ) and his wife Magdalene Elliot, of Stobs († December 1739 ).
Pringle only briefly studied pharmacology at St Andrews and then moved to the University of Leiden to hear there at Herman Boerhaave lectures. With his work De Marcore selini he became a PhD on July 20, 1730.
He settled in Edinburgh as a physician, gave this activity but due to lack of success and lack of assets on. Instead, he taught from 1733 to 1742 at the University of Edinburgh as professor of moral philosophy and metaphysics.
On August 24, 1742 it rescued John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, commander in chief of the British army, and entrusted him with the duties of a field doctor. In the battle of Dettingen Pringle reached by mutual agreement between John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, supreme commander of the British troops, and commanding the French army, the Duke of Noailles, that the hospitals on both sides not so far from the camp were set up and removed so sick and wounded a convenient -to-reach refuge was created. Until March 11, 1744, he served as a field doctor, superintendent of the hospitals and later as the first Surgeon General in Flanders and from 1746 to 1749 then in England.
1749 Pringle was in the Pall Mall ( London) down and was physician to the Duke of Cumberland. On April 1, 1752, he married Charlotte Oliver, the marriage remained childless. On June 5, 1766 he was not a hereditary baronet.
His first scientific paper was published in 1750 under the title Observations on the Nature and Cure of Hospital and JayL Fevers. In the same year appeared in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society three studies on the experiment on Septic and Antiseptic Substances. This earned him the Copley Medal. Two years later he published his Observations on the Diseases of the Army in Camp and Garrison. Since then, he is considered the founder of modern military medicine.
In 1772, he was elected President of the Royal Society; he was the patron of important scientists, such as January Ingenhousz. After five years he joined for reasons of age, moved to Edinburgh, but returned in September 1781 back to London. He died a few months later.
A monument in Westminster Abbey honors John Pringle.
The geologist Sir James Hall was a great-nephew of him.
Works
- Observations on the diseases of the army in Camp and Garrison (1752 )
- Observations on the nature and cure of hospital and JayL fever (1750 )
- Observations on the diseases of the army. Altenburg: Richtersche Bookstore, 1772.