Sir John Pringle (* 10 April 1707 in Stitchel (County Roxburghshire, Scotland); "† 18 January 1782 in London) was a British physician.

Pringle was trained first in pc. Andrew in Edinburgh, then at the university in suffering, where he acquired the doctor title. It established itself in Edinburgh as a physician, taught however from 1734 on there as a professor of moral philosophy. Eight years later he became an army surgeon at the British army in Flanders and/or the Netherlands.

1749 established Pringle in London and became a body physician of the duke of Cumberland; he married 1752, and in the year 1766 he became baron.

Its first scientific publication appeared 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 investigations over experiment on September TIC and anti-September TIC Substances. These brought in the Copley Medal for it. Two years later it published its Observations on the Diseases OF the Army in Camp and Garrison. Since that time it is regarded as a founder of the modern military medicine.

1772 he was selected to the president of the Royal Society; he was promoter of important scientists, as for instance January Ingenhousz. After five years it withdrew for age reasons, pulled after Edinburgh, however 1781 returned to London. There he deceased few months later.

A monument in the Westminster Abbey honours John Pringle.

Works

• Observations on the diseases OF the army in Camp and Garrison (1752)
• Observations on the nature and cure OF hospital and jayl more fever (1750)

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