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Authorised form of nameRinger; Sydney (1835 - 1910)
Dates1835 - 1910
NationalityBritish
Place of birthNorwich, Norfolk, England
Date of birth1835
Place of deathLastingham, Yorkshire
Date of death14/10/1910
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Lastingham, Yorkshire
OccupationPhysician
Research fieldMedicine
Physiology
ActivityEducation:
University College, London. MB (1860), MD (1863)
Career:
Assistant Physician, University College Hospital, London (1863); Physician, University College Hospital (1865-1900); Professor of Materia Medica, University College, London (1862-1878); Professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine (1878-1887); Professor of Clinical Medicine (1887-1900); Ringer's Solution is named after him; died of apoplexy
Memberships:
MRCP (1863), FRCP (1870)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election04/06/1885
RelationshipsSon of a tradesman
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1911-1912 vol 84 pp i-iii, plate, signed by E A S
CodeNA6688
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
RR/15/168Referee's report by Sydney Ringer, on a paper 'The pharmacology of pyraconitine and methylbenzaconine considered in relation to their chemical constitution' by John Theodore Cash and Wyndham Rowland DunstanJuly 1901
NLB/37/216Copy letter from Archibald Geikie to Dr D Harris17 February 1908
RR/6/247Referee's report by Edmund Alexander Parkes, on a paper 'On the temperature of the human body in health' by Sydney Ringer and the late Andrew Patrick Stuart10 April 1869
RR/15/166Referee's report by Sydney Ringer, on a paper 'The pharmacology of pseudaconitine and japaconitine considered in relation to that of aconitine' by John Theodore Cash and Wyndham Rowland DunstanJuly 1901
RR/6/246Referee's report by William Sharpey, on a paper 'On the temperature of the human body in health' by Sydney Ringer and the late Andrew Patrick Stuartnd [1869]
EC/1885/16Ringer, Sydney: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/6/248Detailed referee's report by Edmund Alexander Parkes, on a paper 'On the temperature of the human body in health' by Sydney Ringer and the late Andrew Patrick Stuartnd [1869]
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