John Wood (surgeon)

John Wood, FRCS, FRS (12 October 1825 – 29 December 1891) was a British surgeon at King's College Hospital.[1][2] He was an expert on hernias, and an early investigator of the antiseptic practices pioneered by Joseph Lister,[3] the topic of his 1885 Bradshaw Lecture.

References

  1. ↑ "John Wood". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29882. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ↑ "Wood, John". Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online. Royal College of Surgeons of England.
  3. ↑ Gaw, Jerry L. (1999). A time to heal: The diffusion of Listerism in Victorian Britain. pp. 39–40.


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