Birth: ?
Death: ?
Occupation: midwife

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Birth: ?
Death: ?
Occupation: doctor

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• Dates: 1789
  Notes: Served as Attending Physician, Baltimore City and County Alms House, 1789
  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: 1789
  Notes: “Dr. James Wynkoop enters on practice.”
  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: 16
• Dates: 1789
  Notes: Drs. George Buchanam, grandson of George Buchanan, the emigrant; Edward Johnson, Thomas Johnson, Andrew Wiesenthal, Miles Littlejohn and James Wynkoop begin practice at Baltimore.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 664
• Dates: 1789, Sep. 11
  Notes: “Drs. Coale (S.S.), Wiesenthall (And.), Buchanan (Geo.), Guilder, Wynkoop, Johnson (Ed.), Brown (Geo.), and Littlejohn, appointed physicians to Alms-house.”
  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: 17
• Dates: 1789/09/11
  Notes: Drs. S.S. Coale, Andrew Wiesenthal, George Buchanan, Reuben Guilder, James Wynkoop, Edward Johnson, George Brown and Miles Littlejohn appointed physicians to Almshouse (September 11).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 664
• Dates: 1790
  Notes: “Dr. Geo. Buchanan suggests to the public the registration of deaths; the formation of a public park; and in conjunction with Drs. Wiesenthall, Coale, Wynkoop, Stevenson, Littlejohn, Falls (Moore) and Haslett, he appeals for the formation of a Humane Society.”
  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: 17
• Dates: 1790
  Notes: “Dr. George Buchanan urges the registration of deaths, the creation of a public park, and in conjunction with Drs. Wiesenthal, Coals, Wynkoop, Stevenson, Littlejohn, Moore Falls, and Hazleton, appeals for a Humane Society.”
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 665

Birth: ?
Death: ?
Occupation: doctor

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• Dates: ?-?
  Notes: Born at Belfast, Ireland; son of Rev. Robert White, a Presbyterian minister. Emigrated to Baltimore in 1798, owing to the political troubles the previous year; educated at Middlesex Hospital, London; said to have founded the Hibernian Society of Baltimore, 1803; Consulting Physician, Baltimore Hospital, 1812; Trustee, Baltimore College, 1830 (Q.). See lists of 1807 and 1848; marked dead in the later.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 618
• Dates: 1800-1808
  Notes: Assessment Book 1800, p. 209; 1801-1803, p. 386; 1804-1808, p. 468
  Source:
• Dates: 1802
  Notes: “Dr. John Campbell White arrived from Ireland.”
  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: 23
• Dates: 1812
  Notes: Legislature granst $5000 annually for three years to Drs. Smyth and Mackenzie, for completion of Maryland Hospital. Board of Visitors report hospital in good order, central building nearly completed, and accommodations provided for 100 patients. Dr. William Gibson, Consulting Surgeon and Drs. George Brown, Miles Littlejohn, John Coulter, J.C. White, John Crawford, Solomon Birckhead, Pierre Chatard, John Cromwell and Ashton Alexander Consulting Physicians.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 678
• Dates: 1812, Jan. 4
  Notes: “Legislature orders payment of $5000 annually for three years, to Drs. Mackenzie and Smyth for completing the buildings of the Public Hospital, of which Dr. Wm. Gibson was consulting surgeon, and Drs. Brown (Geo.), Littlejohn, Coulter, White (J.C.), Crawford, Birckhead (Sol.), Chatard (P.), Cromwell, and Alexander were consulting physicians. The Hospital is in good order, its capacity is 100 patients, the centre building nearly done (Report of Board of Visitors).”
  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: 26

Birth: 1786, Apr. 7
Death: 1879, Jun. 13
Occupation: doctor

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• Dates:
  Notes:

  MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY
  
  ---------------------------
  RECORD
  ---------------------------
  
  Author
  Wroth, Peregrine, 1786-1879.
  
  Title Statement
  Memoirs, 1862.
  
  Description
  1 vol.
  
  Title Statement
  Memoirs, 1862.
  
  Restriction Note
  Unrestricted.
  
  Summary, Etc. Note
  Summary:  Memoirs of 13 Kent Co. physicians, including James M. Anderson,
  Jr., James Bordley, Morgan Browne, Jacob Fisher, William F. Harper, Henry
  Page, John Reese, Edward Scott, Charles Tilden, William B. Tilden, Thomas
  Wilson, Edward Worrell. A note in front of volume says the memoirs "were
  prepared by me at the request of Dr. G. M. C. Roberts of Baltimore, who,
  at the time had in contemplation a work on the physicians who were members
  of the medical and chirurgical faculty of MD....." The memoirs are dated
  1862.
  
  Terms of Use
  Information on literary right available in repository.
  
  Source of Acq. Note
  Gift; Mrs. Etheline Page Wickes; Nov. 1930.
  
  Biog./Historical Note
  Medical Doctor, Chester Town, Kent Co., MD.
  
  Call Number
  MS 926
  
  Location
  Special Collections Reading Room
  

  Source:

• Dates: 1786-1879
  Notes: Born in Kent County, Md., April 7, 1786. Graduated at Washington College, Chestertown; student of Dr. Edward Worrell, 1803-04, and of Dr. M. Brown, 1804-07; attended medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania; M.D., (Honorary), University of Maryland, 1841; began practice at Chestertown, 1807, as partner of Dr. Brown; removed to Baltimore in 1868; Professor of Chemistry, Washington College, Chestertown, 1846-54; later, President of the Board of Visitors; a Founder of the American Medical Association and the College of Pharmacy, Baltimore; Vice-President, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, 1848-51, 1853-54, and 1856-57; signs a diploma as President, 1849-50. Died at Baltimore, June 13, 1879.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 633
• Dates: 1807
  Notes: WROTH, Dr. Peregrine, of Chestertown, and Miss Martha page of Kent Co., were married last Thurs. (Baltimore Federal Gazette, 2 Sep. 1807).
  Source: Barnes, Robert, Marriages and Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers 1796-1816 Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 360
• Dates: 1833?
  Notes: Board of Visitors, Washington Medical College
  Source: Abrahams, Harold J., Extinct Medical Schools of Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society: 22
• Dates: 1841
  Notes: Honorary MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine
  Maryland
  Source: University of Maryland School of Medicine, Catalogue of the Alumni of the School of Medicine Baltimore: Printed by Sherwood & Co.: 20
• Dates: 1879
  Notes: Died, Baltimore City, June 13, 1879, age 94, physician and native of Kent County
  Source: Arps, Walter E., Jr., Maryland Mortalities 1876-1915 from the (Baltimore) Sun Almanac Westminster: Family Line Publications: 252

Birth: 1828
Death: 1893, Sep. 16
Occupation: doctor

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• Dates: 1828-1893
  Notes: Born in Tyrrell County, N.C., 1828. Educated at the University of Virginia; M.D., University of Virginia, 1850; M.D., Jefferson, 1851; began practice at Edenton, N.C.; at Paris, 1854-55; Fiske Fund Prize Essayist, Rhode Island, 1856; Editor, Medical Journal of North Carolina; Professor of Materia Medica, University of Maryland, 1860-61; Editor, Baltimore Journal of Medicine, 1861 (bimonthly, three numbers); Surgeon-General of North Carolina and Medical Inspector of the Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A., 1861-65; reorganized Washington University Medical School, Baltimore, 1867, and Professor of Surgery, 1867-71; Editor, Medical Bulletin, 1868-70; Vice-President, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, 1871-72; a Founder of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, 1872, and Professor of Surgery there, 1872-73; Surgeon in Chief, Egyptian Army, 1873-75; settled at Paris, 1875; LL.D., University of North Carolina; Chevalier, Legion of Honor, France; Knight, Order of Isabella; claimed the discovery of hypodermic medication, 1850-51; invented a splint for the treatment of fracture of the clavicle, 1872; author, “Practical Surgery,” 12mo, Richmond, 1863; “A Doctor’s Experience in Three Continents,” 8vo, Baltimore, 1885. Died at Paris, September 16, 1893.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 610
• Dates: 1856/02/07
  Notes: Dr. Edward Warren publishes a Prize Essay on Pregnancy and Phthisis
  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
• Dates: 1860
  Notes: Dr. Edward Warren, Professor of Materia Medica at University of Maryland.
  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: 42
• Dates: 1860-61
  Notes: Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine
  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: 1861
  Notes: In a vacant building across from City Hall a hospital was established with the following physicians:

  Dr. Edward Warren	Surgeon
  Dr. Horace A. Brooks	Chief Surgeon
  Dr. H.C. Nelson	Surgeon
  Dr. John N. Coohan	Surgeon
  Dr. A.S. Erick	Surgeon
  Dr. Davis Thompson	Surgeon
  Dr. C.C. Lee	Surgeon
  Dr. J.C. McKenzie	Surgeon
  Dr. T.G. McKenzie	Surgeon
  Dr. Wilson	Surgeon’s Staff
  Dr. Yellot	Surgeon’s Staff
  Dr. Church	Surgeon’s Staff

  Source: South (Baltimore), 1861

• Dates: 1867
  Notes: Washington Medical University reorganized. Faculty, Dr. Thos. E. Bond, Sr., President and Profess of Materia Medica; Edward Warren, of Surgery; H. L. Byrd, of Obstetrics; Jas. P. Logan, of Practice; J. W. Walls, of Anatomy; Pascal A. Quinan, of Physiology; H. St. Geo. Hopkins, Diseases of Women and Children; Jas. E. Claggett, Medical Chemistry and Pharmacy; J. n. Monmonier, Demonstrator of Anatomy, and A. H. Powell, Adjunct Surgery; C. M. Mofitt, Adjunct Practice; T. H. Wingfield, Adjunct Physiology. Lectures of Washington Medical University are held at northwest corner Calvert and Saratoga, and in 1871 at northwest corner of same streets (now City Hospital and College of Physicians and Surgeons).
  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: 43-44

Birth: ?
Death: 1743
Occupation: doctor

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• Dates: 1713
  Notes: Drs. George Walker, A.M. and James Walker arrive from Scotland and settle in Anne Arundel County
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 648
• Dates: 1715
  Notes: “Dr. Geo. Walker, A.M., arrives from Anne Arundel county, and in 1713 from Scotland.”
  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: 11
• Dates: 1715
  Notes: Locusts appear in great numbers in Maryland. — Dr. George Walker removes to Baltimore County and purchases a tract of land west of the site occupied later by Baltimore Town called “Chatsworth.”
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 648
• Dates: 1729
  Notes: Legislature passes an Act, entitled “An Act for erecting a town on the north side of Patapsco in Baltimore County, and for laying out into lots sixty acres of land in and about the place where one John Flemming now lives” (August 8). Flemming was a tenant of Mr. Charles Carroll and lived in a house situated near where Charles Street now is. Among the Commissioners named are Drs. George Buchanan and George Walker, the former being also a Justice of the County. The price paid Mr. Carroll for the ground was £200 ($320). Dr. Walker purchases one of the lots, an acre each, into which the town site was divided. A large number of the first settlers of Baltimore County were Friends.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 649
• Dates: 1730
  Notes: Served as Baltimore City Land Commissioner, 1730
  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: 249
• Dates: 1730, Jan. 12
  Notes: “Drs. Buchanan (Geo.) and Walker (Geo.) et al., purchase from Charles Carroll sixty acres of ground for the sum of £120 ($319.80), and have it laid off for the town, at which date Philadelphia had been founded forty-eight years; Charleston, South Carolina, fifty years; St. Mary’s, ninety-six years; Boston, 100 years, and New York, 116 years.”
  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: 11
• Dates: 1732
  Notes: “Dr. Geo. Walker assists as commissioner in laying off Jones Town on the east bank of the Falls.”
  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: 11
• Dates: 1732
  Notes: Dr. George Walker assists in laying off “Jones Town,” on the east bank of the Falls, “where Edward Fell kept store” (August).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 650
• Dates: 1743
  Notes: “Dr. Geo. Walker obii, aet. 54(?)”
  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: 12
• Dates: 1743
  Notes: Death: Dr. George Walker, at Baltimore.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 650

Birth: 1762 ca.
Death: 1798, Dec. 2
Occupation: doctor

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• Dates: 1762-1798
  Notes: Andrew Wiesenthal, the only son of Dr. Charles Frederick Wiesenthal, was born in Baltimore in 1762. He attended medical lectures in Philadelphia and in London, spending three years, from 1786 to 1789, in the latter city. He lectured on anatomy and surgery at 40 North Gay Street, from 1789 to 1798. He was appointed attending physician at the Baltimore Almshouse in 1789. In the same year he married Sarah Van Dyke, of the Eastern Shore. He was Judge of the Orphan’s Court in Baltimore in 1796. In the Masonic Lodge he was Deputy Grand Master. He died in this city December 2, 1798. He was reputed to be a very skillful surgeon; he was also an accomplished musician and artist.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 17
• Dates: 1789
  Notes: “Dr. Andrew Wiesenthall (son of Chas. F.) enters on practice.”
  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: 16
• Dates: 1789
  Notes: Drs. George Buchanam, grandson of George Buchanan, the emigrant; Edward Johnson, Thomas Johnson, Andrew Wiesenthal, Miles Littlejohn and James Wynkoop begin practice at Baltimore.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 664
• Dates: 1789
  Notes: Served as Attending Physician, Baltimore City and County Alms House, 1789
  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: 1789, Dec. 6
  Notes: “Dr. Andrew Wiesenthall delivers lectures on Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Operative Surgery, and the Gravid Uterus, at his own home, No. 40 N. Gay Street (Maryland Gazette, Dec. 3).
  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: 17
• Dates: 1789, Nov. 6
  Notes: “Medical Society of Baltimore reorganized, Dr. Edward Johnson, President; Andrew Wiesenthall, Secretary, Treasurer and Librarian; Drs. Jno. Boyd, Reuben Guilder, Geo. Buchanan and Geo. Brown, Court of Correspondence (Griffith).”
  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: 17
• Dates: 1789, Sep. 11
  Notes: “Drs. Coale (S.S.), Wiesenthall (And.), Buchanan (Geo.), Guilder, Wynkoop, Johnson (Ed.), Brown (Geo.), and Littlejohn, appointed physicians to Alms-house.”
  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: 17
• Dates: 1789/09/11
  Notes: Drs. S.S. Coale, Andrew Wiesenthal, George Buchanan, Reuben Guilder, James Wynkoop, Edward Johnson, George Brown and Miles Littlejohn appointed physicians to Almshouse (September 11).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 664
• Dates: 1789/11/06
  Notes: The Medical Society reorganized, with Dr. Edward Johnson President; Andrew Wiesenthal, Secretary, Treasurer and Librarian; John Boyd, R. Guilder, George Buchanan and George Brown, Court of Correspondence (November 6 “Griffith’s Annals”).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 664
• Dates: 1789/12/06
  Notes: Dr. Buchanan delivers lectures on Diseases of Women and Children and on the Brunonian System to a class of nine students (December 6, Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser), and Dr. Andrew Wiesenthal on Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Operative Surgery and the Gravid Uterus, to fifteen students, at his house, No. 40 North Gay Street (same date, Maryland Gazette).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 664
• Dates: 1790
  Notes: “Dr. Geo. Buchanan suggests to the public the registration of deaths; the formation of a public park; and in conjunction with Drs. Wiesenthall, Coale, Wynkoop, Stevenson, Littlejohn, Falls (Moore) and Haslett, he appeals for the formation of a Humane Society.”
  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: 17
• Dates: 1790
  Notes: Dr. George Buchanan urges the registration of deaths, the creation of a public park, and in conjunction with Drs. Wiesenthal, Coals, Wynkoop, Stevenson, Littlejohn, Moore Falls, and Hazleton, appeals for a Humane Society.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 665
• Dates: 1790, Apr. 10
  Notes: “Programme of a Medical Faculty announced for the ensuing winter: A. Wiesenthall on Anatomy; Geo. Brown on Practice of Medicine; Lyde Goodwin on Surgery; S.S. Coale on Chemistry and Materia Medica; Geo. Buchanan on Midwifery (N.Y. Daily Advertiser).”
  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: 17
• Dates: 1790, Mar. 16
  Notes: “The pupils of Dr. Buchanan and Wiesenthall publish a complimentary notice of the lectures delivered by these physicians during the previous winter, and ‘hope it may prove the beginning of a permanent Medical School.'”
  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: 17
• Dates: 1790/03/16
  Notes: Complimentary notice of lectures of Drs. George Buchanan and Andrew Wiesenthal, by their pupils; “hope it may prove the beginning of a permanent medical school.” (March 16).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 665
• Dates: 1790/04/10
  Notes: The Faculty of Medical School announced, viz: A. Wiesenthal, Anatomy; George Brown, Medicine; Lyde Goodwin, Surgery; S.S. Coale, Chemistry and Materia Medica; George Buchanan, Midwifery (New York Daily Advertiser, April 10).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 665
• Dates: 1790-1798
  Notes: Wiesenthal, Andrew. Correspondence, 1790-1798
  Collection housed at the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, Baltimore.
  Source:
• Dates: 1796
  Notes: Dr. Andrew Wiesenthal appointed Judge of Orphan’s Court
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 668
• Dates: 1796
  Notes: Served as Judge of Baltimore City Orphan Court, 1796
  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: 248
• Dates: 1796
  Notes: “Dr. Andrew Wiesenthall appointed judge of Orphans Court.”
  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: 19
• Dates: 1797, Oct. 11
  Notes: “Andrew Wiesenthall lectures on Anatomy and Surgery. Fees for course for graduates $24; those attending last year will have the same priviledge again, by paying the difference between an ordinary tickey and $24; students attending three courses, or by paying $40, will have a perpetual right.”
  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: 20
• Dates: 1797/05/01
  Notes: Dr. Andrew Wiesenthal discovers the parasite of tracheo-bronchitis in fowls (May 1, London Medical and Physical Journal, October 1799).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 669
• Dates: 1797/10/11
  Notes: Dr. Andrew Wiesenthal advertises to give lectures on Anatomy and Surgery. “Fee for course: for graduates, $24; those attending last year will have the same privilege again by paying the difference between an ordinary ticket and $24; students attending three courses, on paying $40 will have a perpetual right” (October 11).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 670
• Dates: 1798
  Notes: WIESENTHAL, Dr. Andrew, died yesterday in his 30th year (Baltimore Federal Gazette, 3 Dec. 1798)
  Source: Barnes, Robert, Marriages and Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers 1796-1816 Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 349
• Dates: 1798
  Notes: “Dr. Andrew Wiesenthall ob. aet. 36.”
  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: 20
• Dates: 1798
  Notes: Deaths: Dr. Andrew Wiesenthal, aet. 36; Samuel Stringer Coale, aet. 44; Thomas Drysdale, aet. 28.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 671
• Dates: 1799-1803
  Notes: 1799-1800, p. 334; 1801-1803, p. 375
  Source: Baltimore City Archives. A Name Index to the Baltimore City Tax Records, 1798-1808. Baltimore: Baltimore City Archives, 1981. See Ancestry.Com

Birth: ?
Death: ?
Occupation: dentist

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Birth: ?
Death: ?
Occupation: doctor

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Birth: ?
Death: 1856
Occupation: doctor

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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

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