GEORGE B. WOOD, M. D.
On the 30th ult., George B. Wood, M. D., of Philadelphia, died, in the 83d year of his age.
Dr. Wood was born at Greenwich, N. J., March 13th, 1797; graduated from the University of Pennsylvania as long ago as 1818. His extended career has been full of work, diligently pursued and successfully achieved. He was for many years Professor of Materia Medica in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and from 1850 to 1860 was Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the same institution. At the time of his death he was President of the American Philosophical Society. He is the author of many important medical works, those by which he is best known being the “Dispensatory of the United States,” written in collaboration with Franklin Bache, and first published in 1833, and his “Practice of Medicine,” which long enjoyed great popularity. He also wrote much on historical subjects beyond the limits of his profession.