Jonathan Green

Who was Jonathan Green?

Jonathan Green, M.D., was a medical writer.

Green was born about 1788, became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 7 December 1810. His degree of M.D. was obtained from Heidelberg University in 1834. In 1835 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society. For some years he served as a surgeon in the navy, and acquired a reputation as a specialist in skin diseases. On retiring from the service he visited Paris in order to examine the fumigating baths established by order of the French government. On his return to London he opened in 1823 an establishment for fumigating and other baths at 5 Bury Street, St. James's. He also patented a portable vapour bath. In December 1825 he removed to 40 Great Marlborough Street, but was not successful in the end, and he became an inmate of the Charterhouse, where he died on 23 February 1864, aged 76.

He is author of: 1. 'The Utility and Importance of Fumigating Baths illustrated; or a Series of Facts and Remarks, shewing the Origin, Progress, and final Establishment of the practice of Fumigations for the Cure of various Diseases,' &c., 8vo, London, 1823. 2.