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WOOD. 628 WOOD. Treatise on the Practice of Medicine (1847; 6th ed. 1806) ; and A Treatise on Therapeutics and Pharmacologif or Materia Medica (1856). With Franklin IJache he prepared and pub- lished The Dispensatory of the United States (1833; 17th ed. 1894). WOOD, Sir Henry Evelyn (1838—). An English general, born at Cressing, Essex. He entered the navy at fourteen years of age, and was present at the siege of Sebastopol, where he served with great distinction. He subsequently entered the British Army as ensign; in 1860 won the Victoria Cross, and in 1862 became major. He fought with great note during the Aslianti War of 1873-74. and received the brevet rank of colonel. In 1874 he was called to the bar in the iliddle Temple. He served through the Zulu War of 1879, and commanded in the Transvaal War (1880-81), and served in the ex- pedition to Egj-pt (1882), receiving the thanks of Parliament. * From 1882 to 1885 he was Sirdar •or Commander-in-Chief of the Egv-ptian Army. He was appointed a qiarterniaster-general to the forces (1893-97), and adjutant-general (1897- 1901). He wrote The Crimea in 183-', (1894) and Cavalry at Waterloo (1896). WOOD, Henry James (1870—). An English orchestral conductor and composer. He re- ceived his musical education entirely at the Royal Academy of Music. After 1895 he won for himself a European reputation as the con- ductor of the Queen's Hall Symphony, and of the Promenade Concerts. He succeeded in bring- ing his orchestra to a rank with the best organ- izations of Great Britain. His compositions in- •clude: the oratorio Saint Dorothea (1889) ; the •comic opera Daisy (1890) : the operettas Re- turning the Compliment (1890) and A Hun- dred Years Ago (1891); and many songs and instrumental numbers. WOOD, HoR.Tio Curtis (1841—). An American physician, born in Philadelphia, and graduated in medicine at the University of Penn- sylvania in 1802. In 1865 he became established in the practice of his profession as a specialist in therapeutics and nervous diseases. He was professor of botany in the auxiliary faculty of -the university, 1866-76; and clinical professor of nervous diseases and professor of therapeutics since 1876. Besides many monographs on acetic •ether, nitrite of amyl. ergot, quinine, etc., he has published Thermic Fever (1872) ; .1 Treatise ■on Thrrapciities. Materia Medica, and Toa^icology (1874; 7th ed. 1890) ; Brainirork and Overwork (1880): Fever (1880); 'Scrvous Diseases and Their Diagnosis (1887); and Syphilis of the Ti'ervoiis System (1889). He was the editor of jWir Remedies (New York, 1871-73) and of Philadelphia Medical Times (1876-83). WOOD, .l.MES RrsiTMORE (1816 82). An American surgeon, born at Mamaroneck, N. Y. He graduated at the Castleton Medical College in 1834, served there for a short time as demonstra- tor of anatomy, and then removed to New York City, where after three years he became a mem- ber of the medical board of Bellevue Hospital, the administration of which he thoroughly re- formed. In 1856 he presented the Wood .Museum to the city, and in I8f!l lie was one of the prime movers in founding liellevue Hospital Medical College, in which he became profes.sor of opera- tive surgery and surgical pathology. In 1868 he was made professor emeritus. Among his con- tributions to surgical knowledge was the demon- stration of the second growth of bone. He per- formed several new operations and wrote a num- ber of papers on surgery, including Strangu- lated Hernia (1845), and Ligature of the External Iliac Artery Folloiced by Secondary Hemorrhage (1856). WOOD, .John George (1827-89). An English writer on natural history, born in London. After graduating from Merton College, Oxford (1848), he was employed in the anatomical museum, lie was ordained priest in the English Church (1854). From 1869 to 1875 he was precentor to the Canterbury Diocesan Choral Union, whose festivals he conducted with great ability. Wide- ly known for his numerous popular books in natural history, he took up lecturing in 1879. He visited the United States in 1883-84, where he delivered the Lowell lectures at Boston. Among his si.xty distinct publications, most of which have little scientific value, are The Illustrated 'Natural History (1851); SIcetches and Anec- dotes of Animal Life (1852) ; Bees: Their Habits and Management (1853) ; My Feathered Friends (1850); The Common Objects of the Country (1858); The N&tural History of Man (1868- 70); and Man and Beast (1874). Consult the Memoir by his son, Kev. T. Wood (London, 1890) . WOOD, Leon.rd (I860 — ). An American soldier and administrator, born in Winchester County, Vt. He graduated at the Harvard Medi- cal School in 1884, and. in I8S5 became a con- tract surgeon in the Regular Army. In the following year he served In the campaign against CJeronimo's Apaches. Upon the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he and Theo- dore Roosevelt organized the regiment of 'Rough Riders,' with Wood as colonel and Roosevelt as lieutenant-colonel. Wood commanded the regi- ment at Las Guasimas, and afterwards was in charge of one of the brigades of General Wheeler's division in the battle of San -Juan Hill. On July 8, 1898, he was commissioned a brigadier-general of volunteers ; on the 8th of the following December was promoted to the rank of major-general of volunteers ; and on February 4, 1901. he was commissioned brigadier- general in the Regular Army. After the surren- der of Santiago (July. 1898) he was put in conunand of the city, and in the following Oc- tober was assigned to the command of the De- partment of Santiago. In the following year he was chosen to succeed General Brooke as Governor-General of the entire island of Cuba. He held that position until the United States formally withdrew from the island. In 1903 he was put in conunand of a division of the army in the Philii)]iines, and in the same year he was nominated for the rank of major-general in the Resiular .rmy. An accoiuit of his administra- li(vn in Cuba" dowli to January 1, 1901. is con- tained in Cuba: Civil Report of General Wood (Washington, 1901). WOOD, Thomas John (182.3—). An Ameri- can soldier, born at ■Munfordville, Ky. 1Ie gradu- ated at West I'oint in 1845: served under General Tavlor in the Mexican War. and became captain in the First Cavalry in .March. 1855. When the Civil War began he took the side of the Union.