| George Hogarth Pringle |
| Family
Name: |
Pringle |
Variant
Spellings: |
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| Given
Names: |
George Hogarth |
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| DOB |
22 December 1830
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DOD |
31 March 1872 |
| Place
of Birth: |
Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland
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Place
of Death: |
At sea |
| Age
at Death: |
41
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| School:
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University:
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| Qualifications:
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LRCS Ed 1852
MD Ed 1852
FRCS Ed 1870
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Speciality:
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Ship's surgeon |
| Other
Occupations: |
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| Spouse:
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Annie Oakes Byrnes m.1862 Parramatta, NSW |
| Children: |
James Hogarth Pringle b.1863 Parramatta, NSW |
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| Voyages:
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"Emeu" from Suez arr. Sydney 13 August 1858
"Emeu" from Suez arr. Sydney 10 September 1859
"Emeu" from Suez arr. Sydney 14 March 1860
"Parramatta" dep. Sydney for London 6 February 1872
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| Came
out as: |
Ship's surgeon |
| Date
Settled Aus: |
1859
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Date
of Departure: |
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| First
Registered: |
1859 NSW No. 500
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Off
Register: |
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| Addresses:
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Edinburgh 1854 (AMJ)
Crimea 1855 (AMJ)
Parramatta, NSW 1860-1872 (Brown) |
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| Positions
Held: |
Resident Surgeon at the Edinburgh Cholera Hospital, 1854 (AMJ)
Surgeon on hospital ship in the Crimea 1855 (Macintyre)
Surgeon Cunard and P&O Lines 1855-1859 approx. (Macintyre)
Vaccinator, Parramatta 1860 (NSW GG) |
| Publications:
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Blood in snake-poisoning [letter]. Australian Medical Journal 1868:285-6
To the editor. Sydney Morning Herald 30 January 1868 [letter describing the use of carbolic acid in treating a gunshot wound] |
| Notes:
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According to the shipping record he was from Scotland at the time of his voyage in 1858 and was 28 years old at the time of his voyage in 1859
According to his article in the AMJ he had spent time in America, India and Ceylon
According to Macintyre his letter to the SMH in January 1868 describing the use of carbolic acid was the first case report in Australia demonstrating the success of Listerism
He died on board "Parramatta" after leaving Sydney for the UK |
| Acknowledgments:
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Information from Peter Hobbins was added to this record in June 2011 |
| References: |
New South Wales Medical Board. Register of Medical Practitioners 1868 [George Hogarth Pringle, Parramatta, registered 4 October 1859, LRCS Ed 1852 MD Ed 1852]
Mariners and ships in Australian Waters [website]
Brown K.M. Medical practice in old Parramatta. Sydney, 1937
Ford E. Bibliography of Australian medicine 1790-1900. Sydney, 1976
Surgeons database. Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh website, 2019 [b. Hyndlee, near Hawick, settled Australia 1860, lists positions]
Macintyre I. George Hogarth Pringle 1831-1872. Surgeons' News 2005;4(1):104 [born Hyndlee, near Hawick, trained Edinburgh etc]
Macintyre I. George (1830–72) and his son James Hogarth (1863–1941) Pringle: unsung surgical pioneers. Journal of Medical Biography 2008;16:155-61
Hollands M, Macintyre I, Richardson A. George Hogarth Pringle and the mystery of the first antiseptic operation in Australia. ANZ Journal of Surgery 30 November 2019
Brown GH, Munk W. Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London 1826-1925 [George Hogarth Pringle, MD, FRCS Ed and Annie Oakes Byrnes his wife]
Vaccination. New South Wales Government gazette 2 November 1860 [Hogarth Pringle appointed Vaccinator at Parramatta]
Shipping Gazette. Sydney Mail and NSW Advertiser 10 February 1872 [Dr and Mrs Pringle and family on "Parramatta" for London]
Deaths. Sydney Morning Herald 10 August 1872 [on board the ship Parramatta homeward bound, George Hogarth Pringle...] |
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