One of the reasons I have been so slow to produce the first volume of the Kelso Dispensary records is that I keep getting distracted. The diseases are so interesting, not to mention the people in the registers and my constant amazement that so many ordinary people were given treatment.
Today I have been looking at Sir John Pringle who is one of the “Recommenders”, a quick Google search revealed that there is actually a monument to Sir John Pringle in Westminster Abbey!
By the time the dispensary opened its doors Sir John was about 70, but that doesn’t seem to have held him back.
So you never know perhaps you are alive today because the dispensary saved your GGGGgrandfather!
Today I have been looking at Sir John Pringle who is one of the “Recommenders”, a quick Google search revealed that there is actually a monument to Sir John Pringle in Westminster Abbey!
By the time the dispensary opened its doors Sir John was about 70, but that doesn’t seem to have held him back.
So you never know perhaps you are alive today because the dispensary saved your GGGGgrandfather!
