Horatio Curtis Wood

Horatio Curtis Wood (1841&#45;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&#45;76), clinical professor of nervous diseases (1875&#45;1901), and professor of therapeutics (1876&#45;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&#45;73), of the Philadelphia Medical Times (1873&#45;80), of the Therapeutic Gazette (1884&#45;90), and, with others, of the United States Dispensary (1883&#45;1907).