Horatio Curtis Wood

Horatio Curtis Wood (1841-1920) was an American physician. He was born in Philadelphia, and in 1862 graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was professor of botany (1866-76), clinical professor of nervous diseases (1875-1901), and professor of therapeutics (1876-1907). Besides monographs on acetic ether, nitrite of amyl, ergot, hyoscine, quinine, and on sunstroke, he published:
* "A Treatise on Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Toxicology" (1874, fourteenth edition, revised by his son, H. C. Wood, Jr., 1908), containing a standard classification of drugs
* "Fever" (1880)
* "Nervous Diseases and their Diagnosis" (1887)
* "Syphilis of the Nervous System" (1889)

He was the editor of "New Remedies" (New York, 1870-73), of the Philadelphia "Medical Times" (1873-80), of the "Therapeutic Gazette" (1884-90), and, with others, of the "United States Dispensary" (1883-1907).

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