David C Miln’s Notes on the Life of James Hogarth Pringle

• Reference:GB 250 34
• Dates of Creation:1959-1977
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
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• Scope and Content

  Correspondence, 1959-1977; copy birth and death certificates of J H Pringle, 1961-1962; material relating to the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine including a copy of a talk given by D C Miln entitled ‘James Hogarth Pringle: Surgeon Extraordinary’, 1963; list of articles written by J H Pringle, c. 1960; material relating to an article written about Pringle by Miln for the British Medical Journal, 1963-1964; photographs, c. 1963.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  David Clark Miln graduated from the University of Glasgow MB ChB (with commendation) in 1935. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1962. His posts included Assistant Surgeon of the Eastern District Hospitals in Glasgow, Surgeon in Out-Patients, Glasgow Royal Informary, Major in the RAMC, Consultant Surgeon at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Lecturer in Clinical Surgery at Glasgow University. He was author of “Gastric Haemorrhage in Burns” which was published in the Glasgow Medical Journal in 1946, “Acute colonic obstruction due to pancreatitis” published in The Lancet in 1952 and “Haemangioblastoma of the breast”, British Journal of Surgery, 1957.

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• Related Material

  RCPSG 28/19 Caricature of Pringle by W. Thomson

  RCPSG 33 Case notes of J.H. Pringle