Horatio Curtis Wood, Jr.

From Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography:

Horatio C. Wood, physician, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 13 Jan., 1841, was graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1862, and established himself in practice in Philadelphia, making specialties of therapeutics and nervous diseases. In 1866 he was appointed professor of botany in the auxiliary medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, but in 1876 he relinquished this department to accept the chair of therapeutics. In 1875 he had been made clinical professor of diseases of the nervous system. The last-mentioned charges he still retains. In 1879 he was elected to the National academy of sciences, He was visiting physician of the Philadelphia hospital in 1872–'87, and to St. Agnes’s hospital in 1886, and has held the same relation to the University hospital since 1870. He has published "Experimental Researches in the Physiological Action of Nitrite of Amyl," for which he received the Warren prize from the Massachusetts general hospital in 1871; also memoirs on "The Myriapoda of North America" (1865); "On the Phalangidæ of North America" (1868); "The Fresh-Water Algae of North America" (1872); and "Fever, a Study in Morbid and Normal Physiology" (1880). The two last-mentioned were issued by the Smithsonian institution. Dr. Wood edited "New Remedies" in 1870–'3: "The Philadelphia Medical Times" in 1873–'80; and since 1884 has conducted "The Therapeutic Gazette." He was also an editor of the "U. S. Dispensatory" (14th ed., Philadelphia, 1883 et seq.). He has also published "Researches upon American Hemp," for which a special prize was awarded by the American philosophical society; "Thermic Fever, or Sunstroke" (Philadelphia, 1872), for which he received the Boylston prize from Harvard university in 1872; "Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics" (1875; 7th ed., 1888); "Brain-Work and Over-Work" (1879); and "Nervous Diseases and their Diagnosis" (1886).

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A biography is available at http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-p...

Memoirs and a biographical essay: https://archive.org/stream/reminiscencesofa00wood

Photos from his trip to the Rockies are at https://www.cppdigitallibrary.org/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Bel...

Dr. Wood became Clinical Professor of Neurology at the School in 1875, was named Professor of Materia Medica in 1876 and conducted his medical practice at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. A prolific author, his Therapeutics: Its Principles and Practice, published in 1874, was credited with advancing American therapeutics to scientific status. Dr. Wood’s research interests were broad, but his work in anesthesia and, particularly, his analysis of the pharmacologic basis for the complications encountered with general anesthesia won international attention, profoundly influencing anesthetic practice.