AmiuguslPl9h(S'm•}         Professor  Horatio  C.  Wood,  377 
tutions,  and  graduated  by  the  Medical  Department  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Pennsylvania  in  the  class  of  1862. 
Before  entering  medicine  his  fondness  for  natural  history  found 
him  a  worker  in  the  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences  of  Philadelphia. 
He  there  distinguished  himself  by  his  original  work.  His  first 
original  paper,  "  Contributions  to  the  Carboniferous  Flora  of  the 
United  States,"  appeared  in  the  proceedings  of  the  Academy  when 
he  was  but  nineteen  years  old. 
After  obtaining  the  doctorate,  he  at  once  became  a  resident 
physician  of  the  Philadelphia  Hospital,  and,  a  year  later,  occupied  a 
similar  post  in  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital. 
He  entered  upon  private  practice  in  1865,  and  directed  his  ener- 
gies especially  to  materia  medica  and  the  art  of  therapeutics. 
During  these  years  he  continued  his  studies  in  natural  history  and 
published  numerous  valuable  papers.  His  work  in  "  cell  botany  " 
was  noted,  and  of  his  many  important  papers  one  on  the  "  Fresh- 
Water  Algae  of  North  America "  was  published  in  the  "Smith- 
sonian"  of  1872,  with  nineteen  colored  and  two  uncolored  plates, 
and  360  original  microscopical  drawings.  Thirteen  original  memoirs 
on  entomological  subjects  contribute  to  his  fame. 
After  1873  he  devoted  his  talents  entirely  to  medicine.  He  occu- 
pied the  Chair  of  Botany  on  the  Auxiliary  Faculty  of  Medicine  of 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1866.  He  filled  this  chair,  which 
had  been  established  and  endowed  by  his  famous  uncle,  Prof.  Geo. 
B.  Wood,  for  ten  years  with  distinguished  merit.  He  devoted 
several  years  to  the  especial  study  of  diseases  of  the  nervous  system, 
and  was  made  clinical  lecturer  on  this  subject  when,  in  1894,  the 
new  University  Hospital  was  organized. 
The  following  year  he  was  appointed  Professor  of  Diseases  of  the 
Nervous  System.  As  editor  of  New  Remedies,  1 871-73,  and  of  the 
Philadelphia  Medical  Times,  1873-83;  of  the  Therapeutic  Gazette, 
1884-90;  and  as  sole  editor  of  the  latter  half  of  the  fourteenth  edi- 
tion of  the  United  States  Dispensatory,  he  served  medical  journalism 
with  meritorious  success.  His  co-operation  in  the  revision  of  the 
fifteenth  to  eighteenth  editions  of  the  United  States  Dispensatory, 
with  Profs.  Joseph  P.  Remington  and  Samuel  P.  Sadtler,  is  well 
known. 
His  "  Investigation  of  Thermic  Fever  or  Sunstroke,"  1 892 ;  "  Studies 
n  the  Physiology  of  Fever";  his  world-wide-used  text  and  reference 
