Annan, Samuel (1797–1868)
Samuel Annan was born in Philadelphia in 1797; he went abroad and took his medical degree at the University of Edinburgh in 1820, and the same year was president of the Royal Physical Society, Edinburgh. In 1820–21 he was assistant at Guy's Hospital and at St. Thomas's Hospital, London.
He returned to the United States and was one of the founders of Washington Medical College, Baltimore, in 1827, and professor of anatomy and physiology from its opening until 1834.
In 1846–47 he was professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children, in 1848 professor of practice in the Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., and was the first superintendent of the Western Lunatic Asylum, Hopkinsville, Ky., from its opening, 1854, until his resignation in 1858.
From 1861 to 1864 he was surgeon in the Confederate Army.
Annan published the first recorded cases of bronchotomy in Maryland. He died at the Church Home, Baltimore, Jan. 19, 1868.