15 Facts About Isaac Jennings

Isaac Jennings was an American physician and writer who pioneered orthopathy.

Isaac Jennings studied medicine with Eli Ives of New Haven.

Isaac Jennings was licensed to practice medicine and located himself in Trumbull, Connecticut.

Isaac Jennings moved his practice to Derby, Connecticut, in 1820.

Isaac Jennings practiced conventional medicine for many years but became discouraged with its results.

In 1822, Isaac Jennings began to give his patients without knowledge, placebos of bread pills and coloured water tonics.

Isaac Jennings refused to prescribe medicine and his career was damaged.

Isaac Jennings prescribed bathing, rest and a vegetarian diet as part of his system.

Isaac Jennings believed that nature does its best to keep the human system in health and to give the best opportunity for the "vital forces" to work, the patient must rest and not be disturbed by medicine or stimulants.

Isaac Jennings was a congregationalist and deacon in Derby and Oberlin.

Isaac Jennings was a temperance activist and opposed the use of alcohol and all drugs.

Isaac Jennings was a vegetarian and opposed the consumption of coffee, tea, tobacco, meat and spices.

Isaac Jennings considered the use of coffee and tea to be injurious and a "great sin in the church".

Isaac Jennings died of pneumonia on March 13,1874, in Oberlin, Ohio.

Isaac Jennings has been listed as a father of the hygiene movement.