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first published in 1843, a "Treatise on the Practice of Medicine," in 

 1847, and a "Treatise on Therapeutics and Pharmacology," in 1856. 

 All of these went through several editions. 



Of these, the first work is probably that in connection with which 

 his name will be always remembered. Although only a part author, 

 it is stated that he wrote fully two thirds of the book. A certain 

 amount of familiarity with this volume and with its subject is neces- 

 sary for an appreciation of the vast amount of labor and research 

 which must have been bestowed upon it. Although at the present day 

 the changes of commerce have made a part of the information con- 

 tained therein unreliable or useless, and the chemical and therapeutic 

 sciences must of course leave it behindhand in their rapid progress, 

 yet there is hardly a subject connected even remotely with materia 

 medica on which an amount of information commensurate with its 

 importance cannot be found, and it must always remain, not only a 

 monument to the fidelity and industry of the authors, but a fixed land- 

 mark of the most advanced position of the pharmaceutic sciences 

 at the time of its publication. 



The life of Professor Wood was a long and active one, and he was 

 enabled to see the fruition of his own work, and enjoy the well-earned 

 honors of the veteran in his profession. 



FOREIGN HONORARY MEMBERS. 



FRIEDRICH WILHELM RITSCHL. 



Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl died at Leipzig, November 9, 1876. 

 He was born April 6, 1806, in Grossvargula, near Erfurt, attended 

 school at Erfurt and Wittenberg, and entered the University of Leip- 

 zig as student of Law. lie soon transferred himself to the depart- 

 ment of Classical Philology, in which he ultimately became the first 

 of living scholars. He finished his academic studies at Halle, where, 

 in 1829, he began to lecture as Privat-docent. In 1832 he was made 

 Professor extraordinarius at Halle, and in 1833 Professor ordinarius at 

 Breslau. In 1839 he went to Bonn as Professor, and there he passed 

 the most active period of his life as a teacher, from 1839 to 1865. 

 Few, if any, American students of philology in Germany during that 

 period failed to spend at least one term in Bonn under the instruction 

 of Ritschl. No other German professor of his day could inspire his 

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