Background
Francis Rynd was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1801 to James Rynd and his third wife Hester Fleetwood, of Ryndville Castle, County Meath and Derryvolan, County Fermanagh, Ireland, respectively.
Francis Rynd was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1801 to James Rynd and his third wife Hester Fleetwood, of Ryndville Castle, County Meath and Derryvolan, County Fermanagh, Ireland, respectively.
Doctor Rynd attended Trinity College, Dublin and worked at the Meath Hospital in Dublin.
In 1836 he took a surgical post in the Meath Hospital working alongside William Stokes and Robert James Graves. Doctor Rynd, who had a lucrative private practice, also served as medical superintendent of the Mountjoy Prison. In a March 12, 1845 article in the Dublin Medical Press he outlined how he injected fluids into a patient with a hypodermic syringe, which he had done on a female patient in May 1844.
Rynd died in Dublin in 1861 after suffering a heart attack.
He was 60 years old. Doctor Rynd"s family
She moved to South America and went on to become first lady of Bolivia in 1879. Maria"s grandson, Jose Gutierrez Guerra, was also president of Bolivia between 1917 and 1920.
Francis Rynd was a member of the exclusive Kildare Club in Dublin. Rynd became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1830.