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PRINGLE, Sir John (1707-1782)

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-PRINJ

Held at: Royal College of Physicians

Title: PRINGLE, Sir John (1707-1782)

Date(s): 1750

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Pringle | Sir | John | 1707-1782 | Knight | military physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1707; education: St Andrews; St Leonard's College, 1722; Edinburgh University, 1727; studied medicine in Leiden, graduating MD, 1730; completed his medical studies in Paris; medical practice in Edinburgh; joint Professor of Pneumatics (metaphysics) and Moral Philosophy in Edinburgh University; Physician to the Earl of Stair; Physician to the Army in Flanders, 1742; Physician-General to the Duke of Cumberland, 1744-1748; resigned his professorship in Edinburgh, 1744; settled in London and continued in medical practice, 1748; Physician-in-Ordinary to the Duke of Cumberland, 1749; Council member of the Royal Society, 1753; LRCP, 1758; FRCP, 1763; speciali gratia, Physician to the Queen, 1761; President of the Royal Society, 1772-1778; baronet, 1766; gazetted Physician-in-Ordinary to the king, 1774; died, 1782.

Publications: Observations on the Nature and Cure of Hospital and Jayl Fevers (1750)
Observations on the Diseases of the Army (1752)

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy of Thomas Sydenham's 'Processus integri', interleaved, with notes on medicine in the handwriting of Sir John Pringle.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item

Conditions governing access:

Records are open for consultation.

Conditions governing reproduction:

All requests should be referred to the Archivist.

Finding aids:

Available at the Royal College of Physicians.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

At the front of the volume is a letter dated 25 March 1822 from James Carrick Moore to Sir Henry Halford, which states that Sir John Pringle, when on his death bed, gave the book to Dr. Huck Saunders, saying that it taught him all the medicine he knew. Dr Huck Saunders, shortly before his death gave it to Dr John Moore, Father of James Carrick Moore, who gave it to Sir Henry Halford, President of RCP.

Immediate source of acquisition:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford DNB.