318 THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



natural history studies. In 1876, on the death of Professor 

 Joseph Carson, he was chosen Professor of Materia Medica 

 and Therapeutics in the Medical Department of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, soon after which he resigned the 

 chair of botany in the Auxiliary Faculty of Medicine. 



Dr. Wood made his debut in the journalistic field July, 

 1871, as the editor of New Remedies, published in New York 

 by William Wood & Company, in w^hich position he con- 

 tinued until January, 1873. In 1873 he became editor of 

 the Philadelphia Medical Times, published by J. B. Lippin- 

 cott & Company, resigning this position in 1873. Professor 

 Wood is the sole editor of the latter half of the fourteenth 

 edition of the " United States Dispensatory," and his able 

 revision of the fifteenth edition, in company with Professors 

 J, P. Remington and Sadtler is well known. 



The success of this has exceeded that of any previous 

 edition of the book, about 15,000 copies of it having been sold 

 in a twelve-month. Dr. Wood's brochure on " Brain Work 

 and Over Work," in 1879, has been read with interest by the 

 general practitioner all over the land ; and the same may 

 be said in regard to a volume entitled " Food for Invalids," 

 published in conjunction with Dr. Fothergill, of London, 

 in 1880. 



But the work which crowns the effort of his life is the 

 " Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics," published 

 in 1875, the fifth edition in 1883. This was the first one 

 published in the English language, in which the physio- 

 logical action of drugs was brought prominently forward as 

 a ground-work of a treatise on therapeutics. 



Dr. Wood has been connected as active or honorary 

 member with the following learned bodies: Lyceum of 



