Dr. Zebulon Mennell Sr. (1850–1911)<ref>Dr. Zebulon Mennell Sr. at [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/255599006/zebulon-mennell FindAGrave.com]</ref> was a British physician of general practice based in London. He is noted for having treated [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] during the final years of her life.
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== Life and Work==
Mennell was born in Yorkshire in a family of a doctor and a Quaker.<ref>Ryan J.F. ''Zebulon Mennell'', British Journal of Anaesthesia, 26:1 (1954): 42-47, ISSN 0007-0912, https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/26.1.42., https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007091217485783</ref> He studied medicine at St. Thomas's Hospital, London,<ref>J.F.R. ''Zebulon Mendell [Obituary]'', ANESTHESIA, 14-2 (April 1959): 210-212. https://associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1959.tb13770.x</ref> received his Licentiate from the Institute of Pharmacy in 1879, and was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
He resided at Royal Crescent, Notting Hill, London, where he maintained his medical practice. Prior to his work in London, Mennell held official appointments abroad, serving as physician to the La Guaira Port Corporation in Venezuela and to the Gu Appantu Mining Company in West Africa.
Mennell died at St. Thomas's Hospital in 1911 at the age of sixty. One of his sons, Dr. Zebulon Mennell Jr., became an outstanding anesthetist and the other, Dr. James Beaver Mennell, made his career in physiotherapy.<ref>Ryan J.F. ''Zebulon Mennell'', British Journal of Anaesthesia, 26:1 (1954): 42-47, ISSN 0007-0912, https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/26.1.42., https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007091217485783</ref>
