James Hogarth Pringle

James Hogarth Pringle (1863 to 1941) was an Australian-born British surgeon who spent his career at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Born in Parramatta, he was the son of a surgeon who had worked with Joseph Lister, and after his father's death he returned to Britain, graduated in medicine at Edinburgh in 1885 and became surgeon to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1896. He studied fractures closely, using the hospital's early X-ray service, and favoured fixing broken bones with wires, plates or screws at a time when traction was usual; his 1910 textbook Fractures and their Treatment was a standard work for a generation. He performed the first successful hindquarter amputation in Britain in 1900, described en-bloc excision of melanoma in 1908 and carried out the first free vein graft in Britain. He is best remembered for the Pringle manoeuvre of 1908, in which the portal triad is compressed to control bleeding in liver injury, a technique still used in liver surgery. He supported women in medicine and died at Killearn, Scotland.