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licitude for the interests of his patients and pupils, he 

 was always ready to supplement and extend the advan- 

 tages of his own personal instruction, b}^ engaging, 

 upon the most liberal terms, the services of others in 

 particular departments. This was constantly done by 

 him in regard to his own private students, of whom, 

 until about the year 1855, he always had a large class. 

 Several of our most distinguished physicians, now lead- 

 ing practitioners and professors, can look back with 

 grateful reminiscences to the hours advantageously 

 spent, in review of their University studies, as Profes- 

 sor Wood's office pupils. 



No event in Dr. Wood's life was of more cardinal 

 importance to him than his marriage ; which took place 

 in 1823, to Caroline, only daughter of Peter Hahn, a 

 wealthy merchant of Philadelphia. Congenial, domes- 

 tic in her tastes, and devoted in her attachment to him, 

 she was able, also, by her receipt of large means from 

 her father, to secure her husband in an independent 

 position in the world. Some men would have availed 

 themselves of this, to withdraw from care and toil 

 of every kind , and to enjoy their leisure in travel and 

 in social or literary recreation. Not so with Dr. Wood; 

 while generous, and sometimes even stately, in his 

 mode of living, he employed the resources placed 

 within his reach mainly in enlarging and improving his 

 processes of instruction ; into which, as well as into the 

 composition of his books, he threw all the energy of his 

 nature. It was a familiar fact to his contemporaries in 



