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.