1880.] Loo [Hartshorne. 



in his later life may have debarred him from a close 

 acquaintance with that pressure of facts in regard to 

 the effects of intemperance in our own and other coun- 

 tries, which, with the evidence that the limitation which 

 he urged cannot be anywhere extensively carried out, 

 has brought many cautious minds in our time to con- 

 clude, that, to control what seems, next to war, the 

 chief destroyer of modern nations, no prohibition, no 

 personal or general sacrifice car^ be too great. It may 

 be proper to say here, also, that, in his own way of life. 

 Dr. Wood, while very fond of hospitality, and making 

 his house a favorite social centre, especially for the 

 members of his own profession, was a marked instance 

 of the benefits of that temperance which he so ably de- 

 fended and enjoined. 



Historical composition always had a great attraction 

 for Dr. Wood. In the two volumes of his Memoirs, 

 Lectures and Addresses, published, the one in 1859, 

 and the other in 1872, we find the following papers 

 expressly of that character : 



History of Materia Medica; History of Materia 

 ■Medic a hi the United States ; Sketch of the Histoiy of 

 the Medical Department of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania; History of the Pennsylvania Hospital, delivered 

 at the centennial celebration of its foundation, with a 

 supplement to this, delivered at the laying, in 1856, 

 of the corner-stone of the new Penna. Hospital for the 

 Insane ; and a History of Christianity in India. 



The last named of these historical memoirs was part 



