Observations on the diseases of the army / by Sir John Pringle, bart.

  • Pringle, John, Sir, 1707-1782.
Date:
1810
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Credit: Observations on the diseases of the army / by Sir John Pringle, bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    blood, he was happy in being able to show, that even the study of artillery might be useful to mankind; and therefore this is a topic, which he has not forgotten to mention. Here ended our author's discourses upon the delivery of sir Godfrey Copley's medal. If he had continued to preside in the chair of the royal society, he would, no doubt, have found other occasions of dis- playing his acquaintance with the history of philoso- phy. But the opportunities which he had of signali- zing himself in this respect were important in them- selves, happily varied, and sufficient to gain him a solid and permanent reputation. Several marks of literary distinction had been con- ferred upon sir John Pringle, before he was raised to the president's chair. But after that event they were bestowed upon him in great abundance: and to pre- vent our resuming the subject, we shall here collect them together. Previously, however, to these honours, except his having been chosen a fellow of the society of antiquaries of London, he received the last promo- tion, that was given him in his medical capacity, which was his being appointed November 4, 1774, physician extraordinary to his Majesty. In the year 1776, he was enrolled in the list of the members of no less than four learned bodies. These were the royal academy of sciences at Madrid, the society at Am- sterdam for the promotion of agriculture; the royal academy of medical correspondence at Paris; and the imperial academy of sciences at St. Petersburgh. The dates of sir John Pringle's election into these eminent societies, according to the order in which we have mentioned them, were on the 12th February, in the month of September, and on the 28th and 29th of December. July 5, 1777, sir John Pringle was nomi- nated, by his serene highness the landgrave of Hesse,