John Pringle

Sir John Pringle, first baronet, was born in 1707 in Roxburghshire. He studied at the University of St Andrews and the University of Edinburgh, then attended Boerhaave's lectures at Leiden, graduating MD in 1730, followed by further study in Paris. On returning to Edinburgh he became joint professor of metaphysics and moral philosophy while practising medicine. In 1742 he was appointed physician to the army in Flanders and in 1744 physician-general, resigning his Edinburgh chair. Pringle moved to London in 1748 and continued in practice. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1745 and served as its president in 1772. He promoted the neutrality of military hospitals and published 'Observations on the Diseases of the Army' (1752). Pringle died in London in 1782.

Talk: The Annotated Medical and Physical Observations of Sir John Pringle, MD