Death · 14 October 1910

Death of Sydney Ringer

Sydney Ringer died on 14 October 1910. The British clinician, physiologist and pharmacologist studied the effects of mineral salts on the heart. The solution named after him belongs to that experimental history; its formulation predates his death.

Photograph of a historical electrocardiograph and two operators, London, 1922. — Electrocardiograph at the National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart, London, 1922. Contextual archive photograph.
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Wellcome Collection · Iconographic Collections V0030859 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0 · photographie d’archives conservée par Wellcome
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Sydney Ringer · Medical Eponym Library
LITFL · Historical date : 1910-10-14

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