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interest in that branch. In addition to the creation of an 

 admirable cabinet of drawings and specimens illustrative of 

 the materia medica, Dr. AVood erected a spacious green- 

 house, in connection with a garden, and stocked them with 

 many varieties of rare tropical and exotic plants, which he 

 exhibited as illustrations of the subject treated in his 

 lectures. 



Dr. Wood was the author of numerous and valuable 

 books, chiefly relating to his profession, which still rank 

 among medical classics. His first important work, the 

 " Dispensatory of the United States," was written in con- 

 junction with Franklin Bache, M. D., and the original edition 

 was published in Philadelphia in 1833. It went through 

 fourteen editions, the last being 1877. In addition to this 

 book he prepared conjointly with Dr. Bache, in 1830, a 

 " Pharmacopceia." 



In 1847 he published a " Treatise on the Practice of 

 Medicine." It ran through six editions, the last appearing 

 in 1867. He also published in 1856, a " Treatise on Thera- 

 peutics and Pharmacology." He also wrote " The History 

 of the Pennsylvania Hospital," " History of the University 

 of Pennsylvania," " Biographical Memoir of Franklin 

 Bache," etc. In 1872 these sketches, with the addition of 

 the " History of Christianity in India," " History of the 

 British Empire in India," " History of Girard College," and 

 other papers, were collected into a volume, styled, " Memoirs, 

 Essays and Addresses." 



In 1865 Dr. Wood endow^ed an Auxiliary Faculty of 

 Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, which was 

 composed of five chairs, namely : (1) Zoology and Compara- 



