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Horatio C. Wood Jr.

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763: 157:. Many of his relatives share similar names, and there is some confusion over Wood's own middle name. Although reported in different sources as "Horatio Charles Wood" and "Horatio Curtis Wood", his son, Horatio Charles Wood Jr., has stated that his father's middle name was simply the letter C, without a period. This was a compromise between Wood's parents, his mother preferring the middle name Charles and his father, Horatio Curtis Wood, preferring Curtis. The family were 181: 42: 781: 237:
After the Civil War, Wood supplemented his income by teaching privately at the medical school. He was awarded the chair of botany at the university, and was elected "Clinical Lecturer in Nervous Diseases" at the medical school in 1873, later rising to Clinical Professor. He was made Professor of
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and Pharmacy in 1876, and added General Therapeutics to his title later that year. Upon his retirement in 1907, Wood was granted the title of Emeritus Professor of Therapeutics.
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for 30 years. Wood published fourteen botanical papers between 1860 and 1877, including a 270-page monograph on freshwater
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With Joseph P. Remington and Samuel P. Sadtler. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Go. 15th ed. 1928 pp. 1883
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included the first complete list of North American millipedes. Species named by Wood include
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Roth, George B. (1939). "An early American pharmacologist: Horatio C Wood (1841–1920)".
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Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni
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The Perennial Philadelphians: The Anatomy of an American Aristocracy
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Experimental Researches in the Physiological Action of Amyl Nitrite
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Wood was a member of various scientific societies, including the
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Wood was the editor of several scientific journals, including
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in 1859, and graduated in 1862, having presented a thesis on "
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Reminiscences of an American pioneer in experimental medicine
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Three of Wood's papers were awarded prizes. His 1869 paper
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Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011).
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Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications
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on January 3, 1920, and was buried in Philadelphia at
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Horatio C Wood Jr. 1841–1920. A Biographical Memoir
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Horatio C Wood

Philadelphia
physician
biologist
Medical Department
University of Pennsylvania
National Academy of Sciences
algae
arachnids
myriapods
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Quakers
Bristol
William Penn

Thomas Eakins
Detroit Institute of Arts
Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania
enteric fever
Carboniferous
internships
Northern army
American Civil War
Fairfax Seminary General Hospital
American Philosophical Society
Materia Medica
American Physiological Society
National Academy of Sciences

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