Logan Clendening

Logan Clendening (May 25, 1884 – January 31, 1945) was an American physician, historian, and medical writer. Family The Clendening family were staunch Jacobites, fleeing Scotland after the fall of King James II of England. As a child, Clendening recalled his grandfather parading up and down the family street wearing a white rose in his buttonhole and vowing "confusion to the Hanoverian usurpers" every year on June 10. Early life

Logan Clendening was born on May 25, 1884, in Kansas City, Missouri. He was the son of Lide (née Logan) and Edwin McKaig Clendening. His father was a merchant and served as president of the Kansas City Commercial Club. He was educated in the Kansas City Public Schools, going on to study at the University of Michigan and the University of Kansas. In 1907, he received a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Kansas School of Medicine.

Career Clendening was Professor of Clinical Medicine and Professor of Medical History at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, later part of the University of Kansas Medical Center. Clendening was the author of the successful book The Human Body, in 1945 it was noted that one and a half million copies had been sold.

Through the publication of his first book, Modern Methods of Treatment, in 1924, Clendening became friends with H. L. Mencken, who encouraged his career as a popular medical writer.

Publications The Human Body (1927) Modern Methods Of Treatment (1928) Behind the Doctor (1933) The Care and Feeding of Adults (1933) Handbook To Pickwick Papers (1936) The Balanced Diet (1936) Workbook in Elementary Diagnosis for Teaching Clinical History Recording and Physical Diagnosis (1938) Source Book of Medical History (1942, 1960) The Logan Clendening Collection of Books About the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy (1943) Methods Of Diagnosis (1947) [with Edward H. Hashinger]