Jeremiah Whitaker Newman (1759 – 27 July 1839) was an English surgeon and medical writer.
In consequence of ill-health he removed to Dover, where he made the acquaintance of Sir Thomas Mantell and his wife, and resided for many years in their house.
He was a favourite with the eccentric Messenger Monsey, the resident physician at Chelsea Hospital, of whom he wrote (but did not publish) an amusing memoir.
His principal work, published anonymously, was ‘The Lounger's Commonplace Book, or Miscellaneous Collections in History, Criticism, Biography, Poetry, and Romance,’ 3rd edit.
He also wrote ‘A Short Inquiry into the Merits of Solvents, so far as it may be necessary to compare them with the Operation of Lithotomy,’ London, 1781, 8vo; and ‘An Essay on the Principles and Manners of the Medical Profession; with some Occasional Remarks on the Use and Abuse of Medicines.’ These two tracts were republished in 1789 under the title of ‘Medical Essays, with Additions.’ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cooper, Thompson (1894).