Francis Rynd

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Francis Rynd AM, MRCS, MRIA (1801-1861) was an Irish Physician, famous for inventing the hollow needle used in hypodermic syringes.

Francis Rynd was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1801 to James Rynd and his third wife Hester Fleetwood, James Rynd of Ryndville County Meath and Derryvolan, County Fermanagh, Ireland. Dr Rynd attended Trinity College Dublin and worked at the Meath Hospital in Dublin. ^[1] At the Meath Hospital he trained under surgeon Sir Philip Crampton (Rynd named one of his sons Philip Crampton Rynd after him), Francis married Elizabeth Alley (the daughter of Alderman John Alley who served as Lord Mayor of Dublin) and had three sons and daughters. Francis Rynd was a member of the exclusive Kildare Club in Dublin.

Rynd became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1830.^[2] In 1836 he took a surgical post in the Meath Hospital working alongside William Stokes and Robert James Graves. Rynd also served medical superintendent of the Mountjoy Prison. Dr Rynd had a lucrative private practice.

In an 1845 article in the Dublin Medical Press he outlined how he injected fluids into a patient with a hypodermic syringe, which he had done on a female patient in May 1844.

Rynd died in Dublin in 1861 after suffering a heart attack. He was 60 years old.

References

↑ Francis Rynd – inventor of the hypodermic syringe www.irelandcalling.ie
↑ Francis Rynd (1801-1861) www.askaboutireland.ie

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Name	Rynd, Francis
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Short description	Irish physician
Date of birth	1801
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Date of death	1861
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