Old Photograph Borgue Scotland

Old photograph of Borgue, a village and parish, located 5 miles south west of Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. John Pringle, a Scottish dermatologist, who was born in Borgue in 1855. He graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1876. He then travelled abroad, studying in Dublin, Vienna, Paris and Berlin. He studied dermatology in Vienna under Ferdinand von Hebra and Moriz Kaposi, and in Paris under Jean Baptiste Emile Vidal and Jean Alfred Fournier. He settled in London, England, in 1882. From 1888 to 1920, he worked as a dermatologist at the Middlesex Hospital in London. He caught tuberculosis and spent six months of 1903 in a sanatorium. He never fully recovered and, whilst on a trip intended to improve his health, he died at Christchurch, New Zealand.



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