Thomason, Henry Denny

Quebbeman: Surgeon at Fort Whipple, 1904-1906. [Name appears as Thomason and Thomasen in the Transactions of the Arizona Medical Association ... annual session.] Yavapai County Medical Society charter member. From ArMA website: In 1907, with Dr. H.D. Thomason of Fort Whipple, Dr. Yount [i.e., Clarence E. Yount Sr.] gave the first spinal anesthesia to a patient in Arizona. After serving in World War I, Dr. Yount was elected president of ArMA in 1919. http://www.azmedassn.org/timeline.html
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, pages 277, 375.

Henry Denny Thomason [Albion, Mich., Nov. 9, 1894]. Was Death the Result of Cocain? J Am Med Assoc, Nov 1894; XXIII: 767.
Henry Denny Thomason [Albion, Mich., Dec. 14, 1896]. Foreign Bodies in the Auditory Canal. J Am Med Assoc, Dec 1896; XXVII: 1308.
J Am Med Assoc, Dec 1898; XXXI: 1548: Movements of Army Medical Officers. To the Fourth Army Corps: Major Henry D. Thomason, brigade surgeon, Vols., and the following acting assistant-surgeons to report to the commanding general at Huntsville, Ala. : R. E. Caldwell from Richmond, Va.; Charles Farmer from Lexington, Ky. ; R. L. Taylor from the Josiah Simpson General Hospital, Va. ; Edwin P. Wolfe from Washington, D. C., and J. Stebbins King from New York City.
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1899; XXXII: 902: Movements of Army Medical Officers. Henry D. Thomason, major and brigade surgeon Vols., to Ft. Sam Houston, Texas, to accompany the 10th U.S. Cav. to Cuba.

American medicine, Volume 6, The Ethical Publishing Company, Inc., 1903, page 252: Changes in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army for the week ended August 1, 1903: Fanning, George J., contract surgeon, upon his relief from duty at Whipple Barracks by First Lieutenant Henry D. Thomason, assistant surgeon, will proceed to his home at Cacaton [=Sacaton?], Ariz., for annulment of contract.
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J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1904; XLIII: 64: Yavapai County Medical Society. -- This society was organized on the standard plan at Prescott, June 18, with 14 charter members. The following officers were elected: Dr. Thomas B. Davis, president; Dr. Will S. Smith, vice-president, and Dr. Clarence E. Yount, secretary-treasurer, all of Prescott; delegates to the Arizona Medical Association, Drs. J. W. Coleman, Jerome, and John S. Barrett, Prescott; and censors, Drs. Henry D. Thomason, U. S. Army, Whipple Barracks, James N. McCandless, Prescott, and John Dennett, Jr., Congress.
J Am Med Assoc, Feb 1905; XLIV: 482: At the annual meeting of the Yavapai County Medical Society, held Dec. 10, 1904, the following officers were elected: President, Dr. John S. Barrett, Prescott; vice-president, Dr. Henry D. Thomason, U. S. Army, Whipple Barracks; secretary-treasurer, Dr. Clarence E. Yount, Prescott, and Drs. John W. Flinn and Samuel V. Fitzsimmons censors.
J Am Med Assoc, Feb 1905; XLIV: 567: Army Changes. ... Winn, Robert N., and Thomason, Henry D., asst.-surgeons, ordered to report to Lieut.-Col. George H. Torney, deputy surgeon general, U. S. Army, General Hospital, Presidio of San Francisco, for examination for promotion not later than March 3, 1905.
J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1906; XLVII: 290: Army Changes. ... Thomason, Henry D., asst.-surgeon, left Whipple Barracks, Ariz., en route to Fort Huachuca, Arz.. for duty with the 5th Cavalry en route to Camp near Austin. Texas.
J Am Med Assoc, Sep 1911; LVII: 1154: Medical Department, U. S. Army. ... Thomason, Henry D., captain, ordered to Milwaukee, Wis., for the purpose of reading a paper before the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, Sept. 28 to 29, 1011.
J Am Med Assoc, Dec 1918; 71: 2167: Marriages. Henry D. Thomason, Col., M. C, U. S. Army, Commanding General Hospital No. 5, Fort Ontario, N. Y., to Miss Adelina O'Connor, at Fort Ontario, September 25.
J Am Med Assoc, May 1936; 106: 1751: Henry Denny Thomason; Colonel, U. S. Army, retired, New York; University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine, Philadelphia, 1882 ; entered the army as an assistant surgeon in 1903 ; veteran of the Spanish-American and World wars ; was retired with rank of colonel in 1930 for disability in line of duty ; formerly superintendent of the New York Homeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital ; aged 77 ; died, February 27, of coronary thrombosis.
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History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]
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