Samuel
Kennedy Jennings, M.D.
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Jennings, Samuel Kennedy. 1817. Born
in Essex County, N. J., June 6, 1771. Educated at Rutgers College, N.
J.; medical student of his father (Dr. Jacob Jennings) ; ordained
minister in the M. E. Church; removed to Baltimore in 1817; President,
Asbury College, Baltimore, 1817-18; M.D. (Honorary), University of
Maryland, 1818.
President, Medical Society of
Baltimore, 1823-24; a Founder of Washington Medical College, Baltimore,
1827; Professor of Materia Medica, Washington Medical College, 1827-39;
Professor of Obstetrics, Washington Medical College, 1839-42; Professor
of Anatomy, Maryland Academy of Fine Arts, 1838-45; at Tuscaloosa, Ala.,
1845-53; author of "A Plain, Elementary Exptanation of the Natural Cure
of Disease," etc., 8vo, Richmond, Va., 1814; "Letters on the Patent Warm
and Hot Bath," etc., 8vo, Norfolk, 1816; "The Married Lady's Companion,"
12mo, Richmond; "A Compendium of Medical Science, or Fifty years
Experience in the Art of Healing, etc. (with portrait), Tuscaloosa,
Ala., 1847. Died at Baltimore, October 19, 1854.
