Birth: ?
Death: 1856
Occupation: doctor

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• Baltimore City

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• Dates: ?-1856
  Notes: (Examined for license on the Eastern Shore by Dr. E. Martin.) Born at New York (?). Surgeon’s Mate, Baltimore Battalion, 1813; M.D. (Honorary), University of Maryland, 1819; M.D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1823; elected Professor of Anatomy, University of Maryland, 1831, but resigned without lecturing; Attending Physician, Baltimore Almshouse, 1829-33 (1829-34-Q.); author of “Sketch of Malignant Epidemic Prevailing in Maryland,” 8vo, Baltimore, 1815. Died at Baltimore, 1856. (According to Dr. F. Donaldson, died in 1847).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 633
• Dates: 1829-34
  Notes: Served as Attending Physician, Baltimore City and County Alms House, 1829-34
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 250
• Dates: 1831
  Notes: Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine (resigned before lecturers)
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Historical Sketch of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (1807-1890), with an Introductory Chapter, Notices of the Schools of Law, Arts and Sciences, and Theology, and the Department of Dentistry, and a General Catalog of Medical Alumni Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 210
• Dates: 1832
  Notes: The Medico-Chirurgical Society of Baltimore, through its Committee of Honor, S. Baker, M. McDowell and Thos. H. Wright, frames a code of ethics, which is among the first in the United States.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 692
• Dates: 1832/09
  Notes: “The Medico-Chirurgical Society of Baltimore, through its committee of honor, Dr. Sam. Baker, Max McDowell and Thos. H. Wright, originate a Code of Ethics, which is among the first codes in the United States.”
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 35
• Dates: 1856
  Notes: Dr. Thos. H. Wright ob. aet?
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 41

Bibliography

• Wright, Thomas H., Letters critical and pathological, by Paetus [pseud.] remote descendant of Thrasea Paetus Baltimore: Published by Cushing & Jewett J. Robinson, printer. 55 p. 24 cm.
  Authorship attributed to Thomas H. Wright in J.R. Quinan’s Medical annuals of Baltimore. 1884.
  Four letters addressed to “Charles Caldwell, M.D.” criticisizing his “Preliminary discourse in defence of classical medicine” contained in the edition of William Cullen’s First lines of the practice of physic, published in Phildalphia in 1816, and edit by Caldwell.
• Wright, Thomas H., A historical and physical sketch of a malignant epidemick, prevalent in Maryland, and some other states, within the last few years. With a brief notice of some opinions which have been published on its nature and treatment Baltimore: R.W. Pomeroy & Co.. 168 p. 23 cm.
  “Appendix” (a refutation of the theories of Benjamin Rush and others who advocated bloodletting)L p. [125]-168.