Horatio Curtis Wood

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Horatio Curtis Wood (1841-1920) was an American physician. He was born in Philadelphia, and in 1862 graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was professor of botany (1866-76), clinical professor of nervous diseases (1875-1901), and professor of therapeutics (1876-1907). Besides monographs on acetic ether, nitrite of amyl, ergot, hyoscine, quinine, and on sunstroke, he published:

• A Treatise on Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Toxicology (1874, fourteenth edition, revised by his son, H. C. Wood, Jr., 1908), containing a standard classification of drugs
• Fever (1880)
• Nervous Diseases and their Diagnosis (1887)
• Syphilis of the Nervous System (1889)

He was the editor of New Remedies (New York, 1870-73), of the Philadelphia Medical Times (1873-80), of the Therapeutic Gazette (1884-90), and, with others, of the United States Dispensary (1883-1907).

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.