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though no rehglous rite was observed, no comforting 

 service performed, those who were present felt none 

 the less deeply that the object of their love and vener- 

 ation — the Christian gentleman, the representative 

 physician, the knight of stainless record — had been 

 gathered to his fathers after a well-spent life, ripe with 

 years and honors, ' in the confidence of a certain faith, 

 in the comfort of a reasonable, religious and holy hope, 

 in favor with God, and in perfect charity with the 

 world; " 



In person, Dr. Wood was rather tall ; until the last 

 few years of his life slender, and very erect in carriage. 

 His features were regular, though not striking ; he wore 

 a peruke, and no beard. He was always dressed in 

 black, and very neatly. His manners were dignified 

 and formal ; his whole appearance grave and sedate. 

 To strangers, and those of slight acquaintance, he 

 seemed rather to repel approach, and to produce a 

 feeling of constraint. Amongst intimate friends, how- 

 ever, in social intercourse, this severity was relaxed ; 

 so that, although never demonstrative, he was quite 

 affable, and, at times, genial. As Dr. Packard de- 

 scribes him, in his brief biographical sketch,* "whoever 

 learned to know him found in him a faithful friend, a 

 judicious counsellor, and a true man." His uniform 

 courtesy entitled him to be designated, as he was at the 

 dinner given to him by the profession in i860, "the 

 model gentleman." Using again some of the words of 



*Traiisactions of the American Medical Association, 1879. 



