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the medical profession, that the neediest practitioner, 

 lecturer or author among them all, seldom worked so 

 hard, and so incessantly, as Dr. Wood. The motives 

 which sustained him in these laborious habits, were, 

 evidendy, not at all a desire to accumulate farther 

 wealth, but a love for his pursuits, pei^- se; a very earnest 

 purpose of usefulness to his fellow-men ; and, it may 

 be, a not ignoble valuation of his own reputation. 



Although without offspring, the companionship of his 

 excellent wife was to him a constant source of happiness, 

 until her death in 1865. With this loss, following that 

 of Dr. Bache in 1864, began the decline of Dr. Wood's 

 vigor, which slowly, and almost insensibly, proceeded, 

 until his decease in the Spring of 1879. 



In 1847, before his transfer to the Professorship 

 of Practice of Medicine in the University, he published 

 his great treatise, in two volumes, on the Practice 

 of Medicine, This was at once recoo^nized, at home 

 and abroad, as an authoritative work. It became a 

 favorite text-book for students, not only in this country, 

 but also in Great Britain. The time-honored Univer- 

 sity of Edinburgh was one of several foreign medical 

 schools in which it was officially approved and adopted. 

 It passed, during its author's life, through six editions. 



This work was followed, in 1856, by another, also in 

 two octavo volumes, a treatise upon Therapeutics and 

 Pharmacology. Of this, three editions were issued ; 

 the last in 1868. In both of these works. Dr. Wood 

 showed the most indefatigable industry and excellent 



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