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Hamilton Wright was born on August 2, 1867, in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Robert Wright and Elizabeth Wyse of English and Canadian ancestry.
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Hamilton Wright was born on August 2, 1867, in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Robert Wright and Elizabeth Wyse of English and Canadian ancestry.
He received his early education in Boston, Massachussets, and graduated in medicine from McGill University in Montreal in 1895.
After a short term as medical registrar and neuropathologist in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, he accepted the offer from Sir Michael Foster of the John Lucas Walker scholarship at Cambridge University, where he worked in neuropathology. In 1897 he become assistant director of the London County Laboratories, where he made a special study of the pathology of tabes dorsalis. He studied at Heidelberg and other continental universities in 1897-1898. In 1899 he was sent by the British Colonial Office to make a study of beriberi in the Straits Settlements. During the four years that he spent in this work he induced the authorities to build under his supervision an admirably equipped laboratory for medical research at Kuala Lumpur, of which he became director. He advanced materially the knowledge of beriberi. He combatted the theory that it was due to a specific organism growing on rice, but concluded that food was an agent in its transmission. The years from 1903 to 1908 were occupied with medical research, first at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, later at various places in the United States and Europe. In 1908 he was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to the International Opium Commission and attended the Shanghai meeting of the Commission in 1909. He was retained by the State Department to make the preparations for American participation in the International Opium Conference of 1911 at The Hague. He attended this conference and the second one at the same place in 1913 as delegate and chairman of the American delegation. He was instrumental in the preparation of the Harrison Narcotic Law and other federal legislation for the regulation of the sale of habit-forming drugs which was passed by Congress soon after the second Hague conference. During the early part of the World War he was engaged in civilian relief work in France; there, in 1915, he sustained a fracture of the ribs and a severe nervous shock from an automobile accident. He never fully recovered.
Incident to his work in the Straits Settlements he also published The Malarial Fevers of British Malaya (1901), An Inquiry into the Etiology and Pathology of Beri-beri (1902), and On the Classification and Pathology of Beri-beri (1903). His reports on the opium problem (1909) and on the second international opium conference (1913) were issued by the United States government as presidential messages.
Hamilton Wright died on January 9, 1917, at his home in Washington, D. C. , from pneumonia.
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Hamilton Wright was a member of the British Medical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Asiatic Society, the American Society of International Law, and the Washington Academy of Sciences.
On November 22, 1899, Hamilton Wright married Elizabeth Washburn, daughter of William Drew Washburn, by whom he had five children.