. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. scourses which he delivered aspresident, six in number, were published the yearafter his death, by his friend Dr. Kippis, in onevolume 8vo. Hoping to derive benefit from theair of his native country, he spent the summer of1780 in Scotland, residing chiefly in Edinburgh,and formed the design of fixing his residence altogether in that city. With this view, in 1781, hedisposed of his house in Pall Mall, with the great-er part of his library, and removed to Edinburgh : PRINGL
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. scourses which he delivered aspresident, six in number, were published the yearafter his death, by his friend Dr. Kippis, in onevolume 8vo. Hoping to derive benefit from theair of his native country, he spent the summer of1780 in Scotland, residing chiefly in Edinburgh,and formed the design of fixing his residence altogether in that city. With this view, in 1781, hedisposed of his house in Pall Mall, with the great-er part of his library, and removed to Edinburgh : PRINGLE, 311 THOMAS. but the keenness of the climate induced him toreturn to London in the beginning of the follow-ing September. On quitting the capital of thenorth, he presented the Edinburgh college withten manuscript folio volumes of medical and phy-sical observations, on the singular condition thatthey should never be printed, nor lent out of thelibrary of the college. He died January 18,1782,in the 75th year of his age, and, on February 7,his body was deposited in a vault in St. Jameschurch. His portrait is subjoined:. ? ??r^fv A monument to his memory, by Xollekins, wasafterwards erected in Westminster Abbey, at theexpense of his nephew. He had married in 1752the second daughter of Dr. Oliver of Bath, buthis wife died, without children, in less than threeyears; and the baronetcy conferred on him be-came extinct at his death.—His works are* Disputatio de Marcore Senili. Leyd. 1730, 4to. Thesame. Lond. 1765, 8vo. Observations on the Nature and Cure of Hospital and JailFevers, in a Letter to Dr. Mead. Lond. 1750, 8vo. Observations on the Diseases of the Army, in Camp andin Garrison. Lond. 1752, 1753, 1761. 4th edition, 1765,4to. 5th edition, 1775, 8vo. This last is somewhat fullerthan the others. A new edition, 1810, 8vo. Discourse on the different kinds of Air, delivered at theAnniversary Meeting of the Royal Society, 1773. , 4to. A Discourse on the Torpedo, delivered
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