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NAME JERVEY 623 JEWELL Samuel Kennedy Jennings (1796-1877) was his son, born in Virginia Aug. 13, 1796. He studied with his father, received his M. D. from the University of Maryland in 1820, then moved to Erie, Alabama, where he practised. He married and had several children. He was the author of "Jennings' Genealogy," 2 vols. The younger Jennings died in Tennessee in 1877. Med. Annals of Maryland, Cordell, 1903. Jervey, James Postell (1808-1875) He was born at Charleston, South Carolina, December 4, 1808, and obtained his early edu- cation at Charleston College, which he left before graduation to study medicine. He graduated in medicine from the Medical Col- lege of South Carolina in 1830, after which he studied for two years in Paris. Conspic- uous for good scholarship from his earliest school days. Dr. Jervey won distinction at the Medical College of South Carolina, taking, at the end of his course, in 1830, the silver cup awarded for the best Latin thesis. Soon after his return to Charleston in 1832 an outbreak of cholera occurred. Volunteer physicians were called for by the city to take charge of cases isolated in an emergency hos- pital on Folly Island and Dr. Jervey responded and remained at his post until all danger was passed. During the session of 1851-52, and thereafter for several sessions. Dr. Jervey de- livered courses of lectures upon comparative anatomy and medical jurisprudence at the Medical College of the State of South Caro- lina. These lectures were marked by the daily attendence of many of the -faculty; and in 1852 the students themselves adopted resolutions "to express to Prof. L. Agassiz, M. D., and to James Postell Jervey, M. D., the high ap- preciation of their lectures delivered before them during the winter." Dr. Jervey practised in Charleston until 1851. He was then given a commission as sur- geon in the Confederate States Army and for some time was in charge of the hospital at Summerville, South Carolina. At the close of the war he moved to Powhatan County, Virginia, where he lived until 1873, when he returned to Charleston. Sympathetic and eager in relieving every form of suffering, and an excellent raconteur, he was a welcome guest in social, literary and professional circles. Dr. Jervey married, in 1832, Miss Emma Gough Smith, daughter of Dr. Edward Darrell Smith, professor of chemistry in the South Carolina College of Columbia. They had twelve children, of whom seven lived to ma- turity. One son, Henry Dickson, and one grandson, J. Wilkinson Jervey, followed the medical profession. J. Wilkinson Jervey. Jewell, James Stewart (1837-1887) Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, a founder and president of the American Neurological Association, James Stewart Jewell was born at Galena, Illinois, September 8, 1837, and died at his home in Chicago, April 18, 1887. He re- ceived his general education in the schools of his native city and at the age of eighteen be- gan the study of medicine under Dr. S. M. Mitchell. He attended his first course of in- struction at the Rush Medical College, 1858- 59, and his second course at the medical de- partment of Lind University (Chicago Med- ical College), receiving his M. D. there in 1860. For two years he practised in Williamson County, Illinois, and, returning to Chicago, was appointed professor of anatomy in his alma mater. This position he filled until 1869 when he resigned with the purpose of studying and teaching biblical history; he traveled abroad for two years in Palestine and Egypt with this in mind, previously serving, during the Civil War, as contract surgeon in General Sher- man's command. The lure of medicine proved too much for him, and when he reached Chicago in 1871 he resumed practice and gave his attention to nervous and mental diseases, being ap- pointed professor in this branch in the Chicago Medical College in 1872 and two years later founding the Quarterly Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases and becoming its editor. His labor as professor at the medical col- lege resulted in large classes, and for the journal, raised it to a high rank among similar publications. In 1875 only two of the national societies of specialists had been formed, the ophthalmological and the otological societies. Dr. Jewell was engaged in promoting neurol- ogy as a specialty and therefore was interested in the formation of the American Neurolog- ical Association in June of that year. Sub- sequently he served the association as presi- dent for three successive years. Northwestern University conferred the de- gree of Master of Arts on him in 1869. He collected a valuable private library and was the master of several foreign languages. Much of his writing appears in the columns of his journal. Pulmonary tuberculosis was his en- emy and caused him to interrupt his labors