316 THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



HORATIO C. WOOD. 



Horatio C. Wood,* M. D., Professor of Materia Medica 

 and Therapeutics, and Clinical Professor of the Diseases of 

 the Nervous System in the University of Pennsylvania, 

 Physician to the Philadelphia Hospital, and member of the 

 National Academy of Science, etc., was born January 13, 

 1841, at Philadelphia. He was the son of Horatio C. 

 Wood, Sr., and Elizabeth H., daughter of John Bacon, for 

 many years Treasurer of the City of Philadelphia. He 

 was descended on his father's side from Richard Wood, who 

 emigrated from Bristol, England, in 1682 or 1683, and 

 settled in Philadelphia. The family afterward removed to 

 New Jersey, the generation preceding Dr. Wood returning 

 to Philadelphia. He is a nephew of the late Dr. George B. 

 Wood, who died childless. Intermingled with the English 

 blood is a Scotch strain, coming down, according to the 

 genealogical researches by Mr. Gideon Scull, of England, 

 from a brother of Robert Bruce, of Scotland. Dr. Wood 

 developed a fondness for natural history early in life. His 

 literary education was received at Friends' Schools, among 

 the most notable of which was the Westtown Boarding 

 School, near West Chester, Pennsylvania. The natural 

 bent of his mind was toward professional studies. He 

 studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and 

 received his degree in March, 1862. But before he entered 

 upon his medical course, he had become an earnest worker 

 at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and 

 distinguished himself in the scientific field by original 

 work. His first original paper, published when he was 

 nineteen years old, appeared in the Proceedings of the 



* Therapeutic Gazette, 1884. 



