Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet
University of Leiden, Leiden and The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
A pupil of the Dutch physician Hermann Boerhaave and the German anatomist Bernard Albinus at the University of Leiden, where he was an intimate friend of Gerard van Swieten and Albrecht von Haller, Pringle graduated with a degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1730.
Westminster Abbey, 20 Deans Yd, Westminster, London SW1P 3PA, United Kingdom
Sir John Pringle memorial.
1735 - 1782
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
In 1735, Pringle became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
1752
Sir John Pringle was awarded the Copley Medal by the Royal Society of London.
1752
Sir John Pringle was awarded the Copley Medal by the Royal Society of London.
Sir John Pringle
An oil painting of Sir John Pringle.
University of Leiden, Leiden and The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
A pupil of the Dutch physician Hermann Boerhaave and the German anatomist Bernard Albinus at the University of Leiden, where he was an intimate friend of Gerard van Swieten and Albrecht von Haller, Pringle graduated with a degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1730.
Westminster Abbey, 20 Deans Yd, Westminster, London SW1P 3PA, United Kingdom
Sir John Pringle memorial.
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
In 1735, Pringle became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Gerard van Swieten (7 May 1700 – 18 June 1772) was a Dutch physician who from 1745 was the personal physician of the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa and transformed the Austrian health service and medical university education.
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (baptised 25 October 1714; died 26 May 1799), was a Scottish judge, scholar of linguistic evolution, philosopher and deist. He is most famous today as a founder of modern comparative historical linguistics. In 1767 he became a judge in the Court of Session.
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John Pringle was born on April 10, 1707, in Stichill, Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. He was the youngest son of Sir John Pringle, 2nd Baronet, of Stichill, Roxburghshire (1662–1721), and his spouse Magdalen (died in December 1739), daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot, of Stobs.
A pupil of the Dutch physician Hermann Boerhaave and the German anatomist Bernard Albinus at the University of Leiden, where he was an intimate friend of Gerard van Swieten and Albrecht von Haller, Pringle graduated with a degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1730.
After obtaining the Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Leiden in 1730, Pringle served as a professor of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh (1734–44). In 1742 he became physician to the Earl of Stair, who was commander of the British army on the European continent, and served as physician general to the British forces in the Low Countries during part of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–48). In London he became a physician to the Duke of Cumberland (1749) and to George III (1774).
Pringle’s chief published work was Observations on the Diseases of the Army (1752). Medical procedures outlined in the book addressed problems of hospital ventilation and camp sanitation by advancing rules for proper drainage, adequate latrines, and the avoidance of marshes. He recognized the various forms of dysentery as one disease, equated hospital and jail fevers (typhus), and coined the term influenza.
Pringle's major achievement was in becoming one of the first to make a study of epidemiology and prevention of infection in army hospitals and published several books.
Another achievement came on 5 June 1766, when Sir John Pringle was created a baronet, and in 1774 he was appointed Physician to His Majesty King George III. He contributed to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society three papers on Experiments on Septic and Antiseptic Substances, which gained him the Copley Medal.
His suggestion that military hospitals be treated as sanctuaries mutually protected by belligerents eventually led to the establishment of the Red Cross (1864).
There is a monument to Pringle in Westminster Abbey, executed by Joseph Nollekens.
In 1735, Pringle became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He was also a member of the Royal Society where he served as president in 1772.
In 1752 Pringle married Charlotte Olivera, who was the daughter of Doctor William Oliver (1695- 1764) of Bath, the inventor of "Bath Oliver" biscuits. There were no children from this marriage.
1662–1721
7 May 1700 – 18 June 1772, a Dutch physician who from 1745 was the personal physician of the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa and transformed the Austrian health service and medical university education. He was the father of Gottfried van Swieten, patron of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (baptised 25 October 1714; died 26 May 1799), was a Scottish judge, a scholar of linguistic evolution, philosopher and deist. He is most famous today as a founder of modern comparative historical linguistics.
Pringle was a regular correspondent and friend of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, the Scottish philosopher. Monboddo was an important thinker in pre-evolutionary theory, and some scholars actually credit him with the concept of evolution; however, Monboddo was also quite eccentric, which was one reason for Monboddo's not receiving credit for the evolution concepts. It was in a letter to Pringle in 1773 that Monboddo revealed he did not really hold to a belief of men being born with tails, which was the chief point of his ridicule.
